SAC SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 28-Sep-02, 29-Sep-02
Callsign Used : OH4R
Operator : OH4JFN
Category : SOAB LP
Name : Marko Holmavuo
Address : Rummukantie 840
City/State/Zip : 77430 Siikamaki
Country : Finland
Team/Club : Contest Club Finland
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries
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80SSB 62 61 131 21
40SSB 183 177 425 39
20SSB 377 370 857 57
15SSB 598 585 1453 63
10SSB 216 209 476 53
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Totals 1436 1402 3342 233
Final Score = 778686 points.
Comments:
During CW part I broke the linear which I was going to use also in SSB
part.
Luckily I get it work again or at least I thought so, but during friday
when
I made some preliminary test to station I noticed that now the HV power
said *KAPUUM* some resistors were blown...Ok fine, I took second linear and
noticed that ****** happens. The antenna relay was in bad mood and
attenuated
signals much. And also there was some mysticous delay in somewhere
releasing
the antenna relay..so I decided to drop all powers off and run with LP.
It was hard time to get motivation back during friday evening and saturday
morning.
I knew that there will be some real competition in LP-class. Pasi was
danced
"Paksalo polkka" from OH6M during sac cw contest and almost
kicked my butt even I was running HP. What so ever the contest started and
the mood
was good. I thought that it would be time to dance some good "Villenmäki
Rumba" during
next 24h. I started to run stations as much as possible. The propagation
wasn't bad at all
and I was feeling good. I was quite suprised at saturday evening when I
noticed that
I was about 200 qsos away from OH6M and propably also from OH6NIO. I knew
that night
would be hard and I should be carefull..Couple of years ago I was heavily
knocked
by OH4YR during night time. I think that I really need more experience
about
low band contesting. Anyway Sunday morning I noticed that no problem, I
still have
some leading position compared to some other LP stations. So far not so
much
Rumba was danced. I noticed moderete JA opening at 15m and tried to get
things going. After that when JA's was worked I started to play smooth
Rumba
and almost every station was moved from band to other.
I want to say very big thanks to all stations who danced with me=)
I knew that It would be hard to beat scandinavian record, but it could be
possible.
During last hours I managed to dance Villenmäki rumba with many good
multipliers
from 20 to 10 and managed to get reasonable amount of multipliers...I'm
quite
satisfied to this effort. It seems that old scandinavian record is
broken...
OH6M did it, I did it..It will be nice to see what other LP peoples did
Nice activity, Nice time...I'll be back!
I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations
established
for amateur radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best
of my knowledge. I agree to be bound by the decisions of the Awards
Committee.
Date __2.10.2002___ Signed __Marko Holmavuo_____________ Call
__oh4jfn___
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