IOTA Contest 2008 - results

3rd place in Dx-expedition Mixed unassisted 24 hours category.

Detailed results you can find here

EU HF Contest 2008 - results

I came across EU HF Contest 2008 results during my browsing on internet. I have been surpriced by very fast contest evaluation. My congratulations to contest commitee.

Brief commentary on my result. I haven´t achieved TOP 10 in MIX LP category again.
Small comfort for me is the move forward for 1 position to 12th place in MIX LP category in comparison with last year. I can achieve TOP 10 by this progress in 2 years. :-)

Nice result has been achieved by Peter OL6P in CW LP category - 5th place.

Other nice results of Czech stations in this unofficial European Championship:
OL8M - 5th place in CW HP
OL3Z - 6th place in CW LP

In national competition the Czech republic moved forward to 8th place. It´s a pity that lower amount of Czech stations participated in this contest. For instance I have been only one station in MIX LP from OK!

Complete results you can find here.

SO2R station - installation of Master units

I have decided to improve my SO2R station after the WW DX contest. I have focused to automatic switching of antennas and BPFs. This feature is provided by 2 pieces of Master Station units from Microham.

I have to say that the options of this unit are really wide. You can:
- configure RX/TX antennas for each band
- configure virtual rotator for 4 square
- control SteppIR
- many other features that you can find on Microham web pages

It is really significant improvement of my SO2R station.

I only have to exploit it during the contest! :-)

The installation of Long John for 10m band

Assembled antenna in the garden

Installed Long John without feedline on the downed tower. You can see 4el Yagi for 15m on the top (view from balcony)


Fully assembled antenna - view from the garden and from yard


View from the house roof (at the back you can see
- downed main tower with 2el Yagi for 40m a 3el SteppIR
- vertical 15 mtrs high for 80m)

The repair of antenna farm after windstorm Emma

Status after windstorm Emma



Course of repair







Main helper: my father OK2BPU

Supervision: flat coated retriever Cedrik

Original tube from main tower

Antennas after repair

All pictures have been taken by my daughter Barbora !!! Many thanks.

Award - IARU contest 2007

OK DX Contest 2008

It´s done!

I looked forward for this contest very much. One of the reason was my unsuccessful participation during CQ WW DX SSB. Due to business reasons I was able to be on air only during the Saturday.
Moreover I instigated my father OK2BPU to participate as well. As I know he participated in OK DX contest for the last time twenty years ago.
Contest preparations were done as usually on Friday before the contest. When everything seemed to be OK I was received SMS from father: last update of N1MM logger doesn´t work properly !!! So the fast downgrade to version 7.3.0 succeeded immediatelly.
Contest run over without problems except my sleep crisis around 5 A.M. (as usually). Probably right choosen tactics of band changes good propagations and better SO2R skills helped me to achieve my best historical result in OK DX Contest.

Claimed score:

Call: OK6Y
Operator(s): OK2PTZ
Station: OK2PTZ

Class: SOAB LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Mults
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160:   76    71
80:  322   190
40:  440   237
20:  281   161
15:   66    46
10:    2     2
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Total: 1187   707  Total Score = 1,229,473

P.S. The number of Czech logs is increasing on 3830 reflector. So let me congratulate to Peter OL6P, brothers Dohnal (OK2ZI a OK3C) and to my father (of course) to achieved results :-)

See you in CQ WW DX CW 2008 !