Good conditions, good participation, personal WPX record, well-spent weekend.

Friday was not the best day. Strange pulsed QRM – found the source after a long investigation: faulty TCVRs‘ power supply. Then DXLog corrupted update. Unfortunately, the complete DXLog uninstall was necessary, including system files… It took a long time to set up all settings after a clear default installation. Fortunately, it surprisingly solved a lot of small strange bugs, which I was not able to solve before.

VOACAP graphs showed that 10m will not work, and really, it did not work. Only a few new mults, no true run on 10m. 20m was open all the time. Sunday was a bit better, especially in the afternoon and evening. 15m was also above its standard. Both bands of various direction openings, especially east, worked nicely. Nevertheless, one radio mult S&P was often more productive than running SO2R. 40m was not significantly affected by good high bands; it was my „the gain band“, as usual.

Not a lot of troubles this time. Just one ugly power outage, but everything stayed alive after switching on the breakers and restarting the station. Also, SO2R scenarios rearrangement took some lost minutes. Only real contest traffic can show the real need for its fine-tuning.

Thanks for calling, answering, contesting, folks!

FINAL score:    x xxx xxx
 Category:      SO AB HP
 Rank:          WW #xx    EU #xx    OM #x

RAW score:      6 769 350
 Category:      SO AB HP
 Rank:          WW #73   EU #30    OM #3

Call: OM7K
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 36:00
Location : JN98OQ

Summary:

Band    QSOs
----------------------------------------------------
 160:    33
  80:   223
  40:   916
  20:   620
  15:   441
  10:    65
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Total: 2298  Prefixes: 1050  Total Score: 6,769,350

Club: Dozen Dashes Contest Club

Used equipments:
Yaesu FTDX101D
Kenwood TS-590SG
OM Power 3500A
ACOM 2000A
microHAMs: MK2R+, 2x Station Master, doubleTEN, ARCO
2x OM Power OM6BPF
DXLog

Antennas:
160m: Half Sloper
80m: OptiBeam OB1-80 @34m
AD-3446 @31m
Cushcraft A4S @6,5m
40m: Inv V @20m
5 circle phased vertical RX array

73!
Riki, OM7RU/OM7K
www.tucek.sk/om7ru