[3830] CQWW CW OM7RU SOAB HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

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

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 42

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  173    10       40
   80:  511    15       55
   40:  531    23       79
   20:  506    29       82
   15:  433    28       90
   10:  546    35       97
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Total: 2700   140      443  Total Score = 3,035,098

Club: OM0M - Dozen Dashes Contest Club

Comments:

Great conditions, I enjoyed really a lot.

Last days before the contest I was finalising K9AY loop system, unfortunately
preamplifier didn't work. But there was a lot of situations, when the low QRN
from K9AY was worth and reduction of QRM from any direction helped me to read
DXs.

I started on low bands and the first 6 hours was over 100 Q/h. I have quite
good TX antennas on 160 and 80, so pileups was nice for a long time, and 40m
Inv Vee wasn't worse. High bands was wide opened for both days. On Saturday I
spent a lot of time on 10 and 15, on Sunday I had to be more on 20m. But I
wasn't able to run pileups of higher rates (over 100 Q/h) for a long time. So
S/P was the major activity, which is visible at mults part of result table. I
got the gifts on Sunday evening: a few difficult mults at the end of 15m
opening and nice cca 45 minutes of NA pileup on 20m on Sunday evening, just
before my band closing...

Problem is with really simple high band ANT - 3 elements tribander. Challenge
for next summer.
And in addition: My ACOM 2000A tubes said "our lifetime is at the
end". I had to use a lot of tricks to forced PA to work at least to
Sundays 2359 UTC, hi. I had only 400 - 800 W output power on 10m and 800 - 1000
W on 15m. Time to obtain new pair... 

So, great fun, I have to be fully satisfied with result regarding to my antenna
setup. Even hope to another positive surprising from 24th solar cycle.

CONGRATS to great results of friends at OM7M and Bela at OM0M.

Thank you for every QSO, for every MULT! CU in next contests.

Used equipments:
 Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
 ACOM 2000A
 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
 RX:   K9AY RX loops for 160, 80 and 40m
 20, 15, 10m: Cushcraft A4S 3 el. tribander @31m

73!
Riki, OM7RU

www.tucek.sk/om7ru


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