CQ WPX RTTY 2019 SOAB SO2R as OL9A

   I love RTTY :) What more, a year ago we have tried the SO2R 2BSIQ in the BARTG contest. It was a lot of fun! Than Pavel OK1MU as OK6W won the EU in the CQ WPX RTTY 2018 (link) and new way of the single operator contesting started ...

   I wanted to test some new HW, also our new STACK for 20m (link) and enjoyed 2BSIQ contesting in the big contest. All the HW worked great. A lot of new ideas and more work have to be done anyway.

   DX conditions were not so good. The 80m was higher than average, I played on the WC almost all night, also some W6, W7 are in the log. On the other hand, the 40m was really bad. I had less than half of QSOs on 40 than on 80m after the first night... I was not able to have good RUN on 40m during all contest :( The 20m was also not as good as it could be, but our new stack helped a lot! 

   I logged 562 USA, 48 VE, 137 JA and 32 YB.

There were also opening on 15m with the great signal from CT3, but I also easily made the only NA station - W3GH. Thare are no skimmers, so no more spots in RBN :(

   See you next weekend in ARRL CW as OL7M in multi.

RIG:

80m: 4SQ + dipole

40m: 8el wire Yagi to NA + 2el Moxon

20m: 5/5 stack + 5/5 NEW design stack to NA + 2 x HB9CV (SA,AF)

15m: 6/6

6x beverage

New IP beverage switching by RemoteQTH.com

IC-7800 + IC-7600

N1MM+

2 x Open Interface III by RemoteQTH.com

   

RBN at WA7LNW on 80m 

CQ WPX RTTY 2018 OK6W SOAB - results

NEW EU RECORD!

- the highest number of MULTs ever!

- higher score in SOAB (36h) than in MS (48h)

- great fun with SO2R :)

My blog post here.

CQ WPX RTTY SOAB SO2R by OK6W NEW EU RECORD?

After last year, when I run Single op 80m and win the World with NEW WORLD record, I left QTH to Pavel OK1MU. In BARTG RTTY where we tried SO2R all bands for the first time, Pavel made decision to try the same with 2BSIQ SO2R in WPX.

 Our cat Marous

10 + 15m and 40m 2el moxon

Stack for 15m and 20m

And new 500W wind generator

 

From Pavel OK1MU:

In the past years I participated in the SOSB20 and SOSB40m.  This year I decided to run  SOAB HP category for the first time. Because our QTH OL7M is building for MS-MM category, several adjustments were needed to control all the bands from one workstation. My big thanks to Jan OK2ZAW, who prepared and completed all setup and even prepared great meals! Everything worked without a single mistake full time. Great job!!!

I also used SO2R for the first time with 2BSIQ for the whole 30 hours and I was very excited. The final result due to using SO2R is brutal compared to the conventional SO1R ! Thanks to 2BSIQ I was never bored for a single minute of whole contest, hi. I have never spent so many hours preparing the best working strategy before the contest like now. This was absolutely essential to make this success. Due it I was satisfied with the chosen strategy. Despite the average conditions I worked 750 x NA, 160 x JA and 102 DXCC.

Thank you for the nice online match on Live score with Krzysztof SN7Q, Rich CR5V and Bud AA3B ! Adrenaline and fun during the contest were again a one level higher!

This contest was an unforgettable experience for me, culminating in a new European record.

RBN for OK6W:

During the contest I tested RedPitaya on K9AY loop without any preamp and filters! Just with my impedance transformer and protections. It was incredible, how K9AY loop worked also during TXing. It is only abt 30m from TX antennas. RedPitaya showed +10dBm of own signals :)