OK/OM DX Contest in SO AB HP
My first contest in this category. Actually, it was not all bands, a few days before the contest, something happened with my sloper antenna for 80M. I used it also for 160M. All band category without two bands :).
The sloper worked also very well for listening on 40M. Sometimes very strong QRM appears in my QTH but when I switch to the sloper, it’s gone and band is very quiet again. Working on 40M was sometimes real pain … . Propagation was not good – only 47 QSO on 10M. It would be much better even with simple 3 el. beam but vertical is only antenna I can put on the roof.
There are a few images from WinTest after the contest:
QSO by time
QSO by continents
Summary
It’s much better than last year when I had 633 QSO. L4-B PA helped a lot – 600W is much better than 100W. On 80M band used multi band vertical tuned with Z-100 auto tuner and 100W only. RBN reported quite good signal from Italy and England but made only 24 QSO.
| DXCC | QSO count |
| UA(EU) | 288 |
| UT | 71 |
| W | 65 |
| UA(AS) | 50 |
| DL | 34 |
| SM | 32 |
| I | 26 |
| F | 26 |
| EA | 25 |
| HA | 24 |
| LZ | 22 |
| PA | 19 |
| YU | 17 |
| G | 17 |
| SP | 17 |
| LY | 15 |
| EU | 15 |
| YO | 12 |
| OH | 12 |
| UN | 11 |
| YL | 8 |
| JA | 8 |
| OZ | 7 |
| LA | 7 |
| VE | 7 |
| ON | 6 |
| CT | 6 |
| 9A | 6 |
| EI | 5 |
| S5 | 4 |
| EA6 | 4 |
| OE | 4 |
| GM | 4 |
| 4X | 4 |
| 4J | 3 |
| ! | 3 |
| HS | 3 |
| PY | 2 |
| HB | 2 |
| GD | 2 |
| TA | 2 |
| EA8 | 2 |
| SV9 | 1 |
| KP4 | 1 |
| GI | 1 |
| ES | 1 |
| SV | 1 |
| CT9 | 1 |
| A9 | 1 |
| E7 | 1 |
| HK | 1 |
| VK | 1 |
| 9H | 1 |
| VU | 1 |
| Z3 | 1 |
| HI | 1 |
| ZL | 1 |
| UK | 1 |
I have to write something about QRP stations who called me in the contest. First, I really don’t understand why they added /QRP to their callsigns. Signals were weak and really don’t understand why make callsign even longer. I have nothing against QRP, I’ve had operated QRP only for a few years, still use QRP from SOTA but don’t know why I should add /QRP to my callsign. In the contest one of the /QRP stations called me. Signal was very weak and had a QSB. I asked three times to repeat the callsign and always got first three characters and /QRP. Nothing more because of QSB. I was very angry with it because he couldn’t send me only the suffix twice instead of stupid /QRP. Why?? I don’t care if he is using low power or 10kW, I need that QSO and even with weak signal, I’ll try to finish it.
OK/OM DX contest is over (WinTest running under Wine in Ubuntu 14.04)