IARU – SO(A)AB CW HP

Took long time to reach this milestone having 15m antenna back in position. Now the stn was ready for the real AB effort.

2BSIQ was the main goal as long as rates make it possible but it was 50%-50% at best vs. SO2R. Seems the loooong practice sessions with DXLog pays off.

  • Minor interference between 40m>20m and 20m>10m which made these combinations challenging.
  • Noticed at around half time that way too few spots exist in the bandmap. The used cluster got offline and after auto reconnect my config disappeared and the RBN spots were not dispatched at all .
  • First time ever the contest laptop frozen off. After the forced restart all of the contest SW settings were lost. Took 20 minutes to recover.
  • The most painful one, the high-bands were so enjoyable simply missed the JA SR, when I realized the sun was high up already. No far Eastern mults, even have no JA on 40m.
  • On 160m and 80m low dipoles were used so there is some room here as well.