[CCF] WW03CW SOAB LP OH4R

[marko.holmavuo at dnainternet.net]

    Callsign Used : OH4R
         Operator : OH4JFN

         Category : SOAB LP

 Default Exchange : 599 15

             Name : Marko Holmavuo
          Address : Rummukantie 840
   City/State/Zip : FIN-77430 Siikamaki
          Country : Finland


        Team/Club : Contest Club Finland


   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Countries   Zones
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  160CW      128         128        138        31         6
   80CW      289         286        346        52         9
   40CW      410         401        716        90        30
   20CW      722         712       1475        83        26
   15CW      798         786       1567        84        28
   10CW      353         349        816        74        26
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 Totals     2700        2662       5058       414       125


    Claimed Score = 2726262 points.

After SSB part I was really dissapointed. My SOAB operation from OH0Z faced 
some problems and my effort (and score as well) was unacceptable. When 
preparing in CW-part I have to say, that SSB part was clearly in my mind, and 
the "self motivation" wasn't so easy. My only goal for CW part was to go to do 
M/M to superb OH0Z station with OH2U gang (www.oh2u.com). 

Because of some very challenging problems it was clear that I will not be able 
to do CW part with so great OH2U team. It was hit towards my face. 

I have been building my contest station a while and the station extending 
process is still in phase. Anyway the current station is full SO2R LP capable 
and is now (without any unexpected damages) quite good phase so that you don't 
need to anything but configure software and plug electricity on. I didn't even 
think any other possibilities, because a lot of work has to been put to build 
own station...

I was trying to leave friday quite early so I can get everything ready for the 
contest, but it wasn't possible to leave from work so early. Anyway I managed 
to configure logging software even though there seemed to be obviusly some 
problems with the latest TR so I switched back to previous version...I was 
ready to start the contest, without any deep understand what is happening on 
the bands, because I haven't so much time to do any "band sweeping".

I got sleep some good sleep before contest and I was feeling OK. My main goal 
was to efficiently use SO2R for full 48h hours and keep fun. Propagation seemed 
to be quite good, and I started to run like grazy. As expected the first night 
is quite hard. Bands was in quite full and it was very hard to get even 
europeans in log. It was quite supprise to hear JA friends to booming in 10m 
during first morning and I was sure that the whole contest can be a great if 
the propagation remains at least good.

I have to say that I was quite lazy with mults during saturday..I was doing 
simultaneus RUN+S&P / S+P/S+P with both radios. Somehow it was not so easy to 
get needed stations to QSY =( They just ignored my qsy attempts;). 

After the first day I noticed that it can be possible to achieve quite nice 
score and I was quite sad that my mult count was so low. I made some quick 
analysis and estimated that 550 mults can be achieved if I can carefully do the 
rest contest. I started to put attention to mults even I same time tried to 
maximize my qsos. 

During sunday I still lost a lot of juicy mults...I'm quite sure that over 
3000kpoints was possible, if just doing better job with mults..DOU! Anyway, 
previous SOAB LP OH-record was made by OH4YR from my station last year. It was 
time to set propably new record and new challenges for the next year;)

After that great contest It is just hard to wait when to get some linear amps 
in my ham shack and start to contest in HP-class;)

Thanks for all who have supported me to build this station up...Special thanks 
to OH7WV for letting me host his Sixpack relaybox for this whole contest 
season;)