Sunday, November 16, 2008

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)

Friday, November 14, 2008

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

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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 !