It looked like the 1500 QSOs are going to beat after first 24 hours. Not bad in LP category, even though with 100 watts. Fake.
Day 1: Low bands in good shape, nice runs, not rarely of peaks of 150 Q/h. Quite successfull use of 2nd radio. 20m was also good, but of early closing. 15m – 6 QSO / 4 mults (even more compared to 2020 in SO AB HP: 5 QSO / 4 mults in 2020 :))) 10m did not exist.
Day 2: Started in very similar shape. Till 02:59 UTC.
Then, at 03:00 (yes, it was cut from minute to minute – switch off) rate fell from cca 70 Q/h to 7 Q/h. Nothing had worked. Neither run CQ on 2 bands, nor CQ + S/P, nor precise S/P to made at least some new mults.
Neither 1500, nor 1000 QSOs were beated…
So, we have to hope, that new sun cycle is going to start… sometimes.
Hardware worked perfect. Including fresh temporary installed 2 element 3-bander for high bands. It was nice reward for few previous months spending with lots of HW station improvements. Just reconfigure DX Log for ARRL CW on Friday afternoon and sleep till 0000 UTC, hi.
Thanks to NA guys for nice weekend activity.
Final score: 350 295 Category: SO AB LP Rank: WW #14 EU #2 OM #1
RAW score: 359 046 Category: SO AB LP Rank: WW #-- EU #2 OM #1
Call: OM7RU
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: JN98OQ
Operating Time (hrs): 29:13
Location : Northern Europe
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults ---------------------------------------- 160: 13 9 80: 190 30 40: 398 37 20: 374 42 15: 6 4 10: 0 0 ---------------------------------------- Total: 981 122 Total Score 359,046
Used equipments:
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
Kenwood TS-590SG
microHAM MK2R+
2x microHAM Station Master
2x OM Power OM6BPF
microham doubleTEN ANT switch
DXLog
Antennas:
160m: Inv Vee
80m: OptiBeam OB1-80 rotary dipole @34m
AD-3446 multibander @31m:
40m: 3 elements
20m: 4 elements
15m: 4 elements
10m: 6 elements
2-el multibander @15m: (part of corrupted CushCraft A4S 🙂
20m: 2 elements
15m: 2 elements
10m: 2 elements
K9AY RX loops
73!
Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru