Another nice and difficult contest. Huge amount of strong signals is challenge
to improving of RX equipments.

 

Final score:   332 956
Category:      SO LP
Rank:          WW #9    EU #6    OM #2

 

CATEGORY	BAND	QSO	State/Prov.	DXCC	TOTAL
SO LP	160 m	843	19	57	339 796

 

Finally the time has come to participate to my favourite contest after couple of years.

There was a band crowded of top guns, so I had to catch the weak signals by using of all available external filters and attenuators, and, of course, a lot of patience. IC 706 isn’t that the best for 160 m, hi. The RX path solutions is challenge for next step of building of HAM equipments.

See you next year.

73! Riki

CONTEST SETUP
TCVR       Icom IC 706 MkII
Power     100 Watts
Preselector     homemade
Antenna tuner     MFJ-969
Interface     microHAM microKEYER
Headset     HEIL ProSet Plus!
Antenna    33 m vertical (Cap Hat + elevated radials)
PC Asus     A6 notebook