OL4A v SSB části CQ WW 160m Contestu 2013 z Lesné.

Tentokrát ve složení OK1DTC, OK1DSX, OK1JKT, OK1HGM, OK1ES. Chystali jsme se už na CW část, ale tu jsme z důvodu nemoci odpískali. Na SSB část jsme dorazili už v pátek, ale na Lesné přes metr sněhu a nulová viditelnost. V noci kosa a silný nárazový vítr se sněhem. Přesto jsme našli přetržený vertikál na 160m a namrzlý stožár nevěstil, že se nám podaří anténu vůbec zprovoznit. Za vydatného sebezapření a risku /Jardy OK1DSX a Martina OK1HGM/ se ale nakonec toto provizorně podařilo. Bohužel už se nepodařilo zprovoznit setup a tak jsme se ohřívali u kamen a vzpomínali u skleničky na staré dobré časy na Lesné. Natáhli jsme jeden beverage a rozdali body jen v noci ze soboty na neděli. Celkově v logu 430 stanic a i několik QSO do USA nebo třeba HK či ZF,ale jinak jsme se poměrně špatně dovolávali. V neděli dopoledne jsme kolektivně vykopávali auta ze závějí a snažili se dostat do nížin, což se nakonec povedlo. Díky všem za zavolání. Za OL4A Josef OK1ES.  A nějaké foto dole ve fotogalerii.

V roce 2013 - na Březině pořád není kompletně obnovena kabeláž po návštěvě bandity a tak pouze 3 Single Band operace
 

CQWW WPX Contest, CW

 Call: OK5R

Operator(s): OK1RI

Station: OK1RF/OK1RI

Class: SO(A)SB15 HP

QTH: Brezina

Summary:

 Band  QSOs

------------

  160:     

   80:     

   40:     

   20:     

   15: 1498

   10:     

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Total: 1498  Prefixes = 837  Total Score = 2,775,492

 Comments:

 Bad propagation.

 Late start both days, Noon pauses....after finding the propagation: "took

easy".

 Hope for better next time.

OK1RI na 15m jako OK5R - 2 v EU

 CQWW WPX Contest, CW

 Call: OL4A

Operator(s): OM6NM

Station: OK1RI/OK1RF

Class: SO(A)SB40 HP

QTH: Brezina

Summary:

 Band  QSOs

------------

  160:     

   80:     

   40: 1548

   20:     

   15:     

   10:     

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Total: 1548  Prefixes = 787  Total Score = 3,882,271

Comments:

I was happy to spend the contest weekend with my friends Jiri, OK1RI (15m as

OK5R)and Peter OK1FFU (operated 10m using his personal call). Unfortunately, we

missed one week of antenna work to be ready for M2 operation from OL4A, but

finally I was pleased to activate our contest call at least on 40m single band

operation. The propagation was too bad for great pile-ups from US and JAÂ's as

we know in Brezina QTH from winter time, but It was funny to be "on the

air".

Thanks to my friends and all of you I could write down into the log.

Norbert, OM6NM

OM6NM na 40m jako OL4A  - 2 v EU

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: OL4A

Operator(s): OK1DO OK1DSZ OK1FFU OK1RI OK8WW OM6NM

Station: OK1RF/OK1RI

Class: M/2 HP

QTH: Brezina

Summary:

 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries

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  160:  280    14       60

   80:  971    20       91

   40: 1605    32      115

   20: 1920    39      153

   15: 1845    39      144

   10: 2387    39      152

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Total: 9008   183      715  Total Score = 18,080,332

Comments:

The propagation was GREAT.

We worked on 3 elements 80m Yagi (almost full size) the weeks before the

contest and finally in Monday it went up onto the rotor.

I knew there might be a problem with rotor on 10m stack - that it rotates very

slowly and stops sometimes but still in July it worked, viz later.

Since most of the station worked fine during the IARU contest, I was not

nervous about other bands. Well just in about 2000 GMT we found out that the

rotor from our 40m 5Y Yagi in 52m is not working. The tree phase motor was

completely damaged probably strike during thunderstorm ??? The high Yagi was

stuck into "INDIAN ocean", so.... we climbed the tower during night

and "somehow" managed to rotate the upper Yagi, it went to JA and the

low one is to the USA fixed. This damaged our morale, we knew we are not

competitive anymore, so we said, OK we will operate, take it easy just to have

FUN. The unmovable antenna really damaged our multipliers on 40m - we could

hear only big gun stations from SA, we could not copy ZD8O (!!!) etc... Also

there was not stack to the USA - only single Yagi in 27m.... Another calamity

came with the rotor on 10m - just after noon in Sunday it got stuck to the

north, so we removed the rotor, it was still stuck. Most of the tower (4x6Y all

rotate together) rotates, the whole system was made in 1988 and was working fine

since. So we "opened" the gears in 12m - and found there is "lost

screw" in the bearing - it must have been there somewhere harmlessly all

the time last 25 years without any problem and finally this Sunday it got

inside ? So fix was easy we just lost almost 4 hours of best time on 10m.

OK no harm done - we know we can not compete with TM6M in one of the best spots

in Europe even having probably 2-3x times as much aluminum in the air.

We remembered our last 3 years of operation from C5A - it was really something

else compared to middle EU location.....

We observed how our friends from D4C are doing in their try for new MM record (

I personally did not believed they will do it ) and unfortunately I was right.

Anyway congrats to their unconditional win. Also congrats to ES9C for their

super result from northern QTH - unpredictable chance !

Hope to hear you all in CW leg - we will try something really silly this

year.....

73 ! Jiri OK1RI

mnoho technických problémů - výsledky zatím nejsou a vypadá to na třetí místo v EU za TM6M a RU1A.
 

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: OL4A

Operator(s): OK1DIX OK1DO OK1DSZ OK1FFU OK1HGM OK1NY OK1RI OK8WW OM6NM

Station: OK1RF/OK1RI

Class: M/M QRP

QTH: Brezina

Summary:

 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries

------------------------------

  160:  464    14       60

   80:  878    18       81

   40: 1208    39      135

   20:  970    38      133

   15:  798    39      137

   10:  537    35      127

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Total: 4855   183      673  Total Score = 7,875,200

 Comments:

 Already while leaving Gambia after our last outing from there, we thought what

will be next year. It was obvious we will go "somewhere" in the

future but not next year. In discussions someone just randomly mentioned the

M/M QRP operation of "OK2RZ and party" in 2009, and jokingly we said

that would be the complete silliness to try from Brezina next year. None of us

is QRP operator, only OK1DO tried once from his home QTH QRP on all bands. I

myself made only about 10 QRP QSOs few days before the contest on 15 and 40m.

That is all ! Similar all others with only OK1DO and OK8WW had some limited QRP

experience.

So OK when our 80m Yagi was going up before SSB leg we said, it is going to be

really decadent to go QRP with almost full size 3Y yagi on 80m !

Our goal was to beat the result of OK2RRR from 2009 - it was in inferior

propagation, so we said we should make twice as much i.e over 2.5 mil. We

checked the EU winners of single band QRP categories last years and if

calculated the best SB results it would give around 4 mil. points - so it was

our high goal the more real one was 2,5....

We could hardly imagine how it would be to come through the pileup for each

multiplier with 5W only. If someone would tell me we will finish with the zones

numbers we have on 40-10m I would proclaim him completely crazy. It was very

interesting experience. There were station loud and we called them through the

pileup and came through reasonably well, there were stations who just did not

hear us. It was interesting that to some stations you got through surprisingly

after 20 minus calling. The winner of the "deaf trophy" by far is

VP2MMM - probably local interference similar to our last year as C5A. He did

not heard us - OK that is fine but we heard many times more than 20 people were

calling and he was unhappily calling CQ all the time. Overall one gets to listen

around the bands this way much more then during HP operation, which was

interesting and fun in itself.

We are very happy with the unexpected final result, how ever I doubt we will do

it again. It was fun but also frustrating calling long minutes multipliers you

know would be worked in seconds. Also to go through the contest more-less

without any CQ was also sort of peculiar for us.

Thank you all for being patient with copying our 5W signals and hope to hear

you all next year once more.

73 ! Jiri OK1RI - for the whole group

super bláznivá akce MULTI MULTI QRP !!!!! - Zde o výsledek nešlo - jen o to zkusit co se dá z Březiny takto udělat.