CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: OM8A
Operator(s): OM2KW,2VL,OM3BH,3GI,3LA,3NA,3RM,OM5KM,OM7JG
Station: OM8A
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Okoc
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 377 13 65
80: 423 23 94
40: 1319 34 124
20: 2306 39 161
15: 1199 38 154
10: 284 23 105
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Total: 5908 170 703 Total Score = 10,234,179
Club: Slovak contest group
Comments:
After 3 years of hard work on our masts and antenna systems it was finally time
for our hamshack . It has undergone major improvements and was almost fully
automated. Thanks to the band decoders and antenna switches from the company
MicroHam and other switching systems from OM2KW our work during the contest
became efficient and fast, especially in the area of switching between bands
and antennas. The whole network of cables and relays worked 100% during the
contest and also our amplifiers from OM Power. Wolfgang OE3WLB has also a big
part on the good results as he prepared a lot of band filters. We used the
contest software from N1MM as usually. The system worked 100% without a single
fallout for 48 hours, although a small upgrade of our computers was needed.
Thanks for this FB software.
Despite the powerful technical improvement of our work stations we didnâ??t
succeed to reach last yearâ??s results because of a higher ionosphere. Even
though, the sum of connections and multipliers is higher than last year.
The condx on Saturday were very good and it seemed that we could reach 7000
QSOâ??s. After the first half of the contest we had 3700 QSOâ??s and it filled
us with optimism but on Sunday the condx changed drastically and the 15m band,
which was our hope, closed up totally.
On Saturday we made ca. 1100 connection on 15m, on Sunday only around 50. On
Sunday 15m didnâ??t open at all towards Japan and in the afternoon it was also
closed towards North America. We spent the morning on 10m, where some
shortskips appeared, and we made around 150 QSOâ??s within Europe.
The main band was 20m, where we had predominantly connections to Europe. So the
average points for connection has been rapidly decreasing under 2. Sunday
evening we were desperately seeking for opportunities and so we ended up
switching between lower bands. Therefore, points werenâ??t coming as we were
used to from previous years.
We can say, that the DX conditions were the worst what we experienced so far,
at least in Central Europe.
Despite these hostile conditions we are satisfied with the results. We thank to
everybody who has called us and we are looking forward to hear each in CQ WW CW
under better conditions.
We would also like to congratulate to 9A1P for achieved results.
73 and GL
OM8A team
www.om8a.org
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