ARRL 10 METER CONTEST -- 1998
Call: OK1RI Country: Czech Republic
Category: Single Operator / HP /
UN-assisted
MODE QSO QSO PTS STATES COUNTRIES
CW 0 0 0 0
SSB 1381 2762 49 109
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Totals 1381 2762 49 109 = 436,396
All reports sent were 59.
Equipment Description:
IC775 + PPA 2 kW
ANT - 6Y / 6Y / 6Y @ 12 / 20 / 28 m
BUT first director on the BOTTOM ANT was away and both first and second
directors on the TOP ANT was also away which had demolishing effect on the
performance of the system.
This is to certify that in this contest I have operated
my transmitter within the limitations of my license and have
observed fully the rules and regulations of the contest.
Signature __________Jiri_Sanda___
MAILING ADDRESS:
Jiri Sanda OK1RI
Diabasova 5
Praha 5, CZ 15500
Comments:
I have known the ANTENNA is in bad shape but I have decided to run this one
this year since the 10m is finally COMING and I felt that there is still 15
elements somewhere in the air so a little bit of signal will go out..... I
decided to be only on SSB since the ANT seemed to be affected even more on CW -
there the SWR of the whole system was 3:1 - see post of W4AN on the huge effect
of even first director problem on the performance of the whole ANT.
It was interesting to read posts of some other Europeans both west of me
(G0AEV) and east of me (LY s...).
The propagation to JA was very strange, in Saturday the short pass opening was
marginal - I could work only about 10 JA, but the long pass was much better -
some of the signals were really 59 +. First day together about 60 JA+HL. Second
day the short pass propagation was much better, the long pass was much later
and very marginal - only 4 QSOs - together again 60 JA+HL.
USA + Canada was about the same both days. Worked everything in the USA both
days up to W0 - only ND missing but out of W7 and VE4 and up.
In Saturday I worked 1 x OR in Sunday 1 x AZ + 2 x CA. I was mad listening to
S5, I, F, G etc.. to work west coast and have not heard a sound of them.
Also the USA - i.e. East coast pileups even during the best hours were sort of
marginal - best complete hour was only 136 QSO. I guess that it was this year
sort of second SS contest. All the NA stations were even in the best
opening-time to EU very busy trying to work each other - as is visible in the
results of the NA stations. But maybe my perception of this phenomena was
caused only by my wind-damaged antenna ?!?
SSB
North America SSB 682 49.4
South America SSB 81 5.9
Europe SSB 386 28.0
Asia SSB 190 13.8
Africa SSB 15 1.1
Oceania SSB 27 2.0
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