ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: OM7RU
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 107 35
80: 400 265
40: 443 187
20: 221 100
15: 30 14
10: 0 0
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Total: 1201 601 Total Score = 1,658,760
Club: OM0M - Dozen Dashes Contest Club
Comments:
This time was the contest more about CQ than about WPX or even DX.
Start of the contest showed me prediction for next 48 hours. Closed bands
without preface pileup, many more or less wide splettered signals. 10m was
closed, 15m only for Middle East and South America mults. 20m was without good
antennas only the place for S/P. 40m and 80m were base bands, and 160m only as
EU playground. The CQ produced low rates. Saturday CQs produced so-so rates
between 40-80 Q/h, so there was better to S/P during Sunday.
Conditions were really strange. I got often "59 big signal" info from
any part of the world, together with callsign calling without answer from the
same location few kHz beside... Spletters were everywhere, sometimes I had
problem to set all filters back to default positions after hard digging of QSO
covered by spletters. Bands looked full, but with a lot of inbands, which start
to be one of the reason of difficulties of find clear frequency.
The only one 20m pileup was interrupted by my antivirus software, it started to
upgrade and stopped other applications... I lost frequency and cca 20 minutes
traffic during killing of the upgrade process :(
HW worked fine, except Mr. Murphy visit: During pre-starting control hour on
Friday evening I found deaf 160m antenna. Problem was fortunately only routine:
disconnected feedline-to-tower wire, solved during Saturday break.
And just one "wonder": on 80m I heard somebody to announce to 9A..
STN, that he breaks the rules, because of parallel transmition. 9A.. told, that
he don't use 2nd radio. Few minutes later I walked S/P through 160m and during
waiting for CQ STN callsign I suddenly heard "OM7RU, we have QSO
B4"...
Thanks to all participants, for patience during QSOs inside splatter pauses.
Used equipments:
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
ACOM 2000A (1,5 kW OUT)
MicroHAM microKeyer, MicroHAM StationMaster
WinTest
UltraBeam UB ONE rotator
Antennas:
160m: Vertical (35m tower + 2 elevated radials)
80m: OptiBeam OB1-80 rotary dipole @34m
40m: InvVee @21m
20, 15, 10m: Cushcraft A4S 3 el. tribander @31m
73!
Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru
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