This year it was about new hamshack setup, Mr. Murphy and bad conditions.

I have started to rebuild my HAMshack to SO2R, so this was the first contest with a few new microHAM and OM Power toys. Mr. Murphy knew, that it’s his cup of coffee, fortunately, I was able still be back in the air in few minutes:
– rotator position sensor is dead (not necessary on 160),
– StationMaster 1 died in the first hour (I had second one),
– StationMaster 2 died on Saturday morning (coaxes reconnecting solved it),
– keyboard dead on Saturdy evening (I have 2 spare ones)…
So… next project is solving of RF interferences.

I don’t have inband HW, so I run with „semi SO2V“ to have some experiences with stereo receiving: VFO A (run) to the left and VFO B (S&P) to the right ears, and 2 keyboards. Sometimes of big confusion, hi. Sorry to those, who was attacked by my signal in the case of unwanted switching of TX to improper VFO… I received almost full time on K9AY antenna, so splatters and extremely wide signals was so-so acceptable.

Conditions: I will copy all others – bad Saturday morning (no NA, few AS and AF), bit better second night and struggle for every QSO on Sunday evening.

See you in next contests!

Final score:   409 875
Category:      SO HP
Rank:          WW #30   EU #8   OM #1

 
Call: OM7RU
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 28:09
Location : Northern Europe

Summary:

  QSOs     State/Prov   Countries   Total Score
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  1083        15           61          428,412
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Used equipments:
   Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
   ACOM 2000A (1,5 kW OUT)
   microHAM microKEYER 2R+
   microHAM StationMaster
   2x OM Power OM6BPF
   DXLog.net

Antennas:
  Vertical (35m tower + 2 elevated radials)
  RX: K9AY

73!
Riki, OM7RU

www.tucek.sk/om7ru