CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: OH7M
Operator(s): OH4XX
Station: OH7M
Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP
QTH: FINLAND
Operating Time (hrs): 33
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40:
20: 2363 39 152
15:
10:
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Total: 2363 39 152 Total Score = 845,748
Club: Contest Club Finland
Comments:
I had two alternatives this year; Either 20 SOSB or 40 SOSB. OH7M antennas on
both bands are quite OK (5/5 monobander stack + several other single antennas
on 20 m and 3/3 stack + 3 el on 40 m) However I decided to go to 20m due its a
bit pain to work 40 SSB from this part of the world since OH is still limited
to TX 7-7.1 MHz. I had some technical issues which prevented me to utilize all
the 20 m antennas; However I had KT34XA fixed to 200 deg (EU) and 5 over 5
stack rotating, both played well. 20 meter start was slow, I managed to log
only 100 qs on couple first hours, then the band went silent and I was feeling
tired and I took a â??napâ?? 2Z-5Z. Saturday morning hours produced best
qso/hour in whole contest, mostly EU but some AS came in pretty well. At 14332
I was forced to leave the frequency by some DL OMâ??s who said that they have
been in this same freq. last 31 years even I had been there more than hour
logging qsos! I also got offended by some German words like "ar** l***"
Probably they though I did not understand. Anyway it was 31 yrs experience of
Ham Spirit on that freq. Saturday evening I had few short opening to US but
could not get run going. I heard OH8â??s logging NA stations so probably
propagation did not reached east Finland that well. One other thing I noticed
during the contest that I cannot stay awake 40+ hours, at least without any
preparations. There is only one thing which can prevent me to fall as sleep
when Iâ??m tired; a big pileup ï?? There were not too may of them during the
weekend, or they were just way too short. Weâ??ll try to get M/S or M/2 team
for CW part so CU then. Thanks for the QSOs.
73,
De Mikko OH4XX
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