in March belongs to VHF and HF together. Jozef OM3GI run away ARRL SSB contest and VHF/UHF team consisted of OM2VL,OM3BH,OM5CM and OM5KM took part in I.subregional VHF/UHF contest. At first we had to check and repair HF antenna switch (TNX OM2KW) and each VHF/UHF antenna system because of severe winter. We had to put out cart which holds 180cm dish and transverter. Before VHF contest we made in time to pack beverages which were useless. We didnt pack US beverage only which was used by Jozef during ARRL SSB. During the first night on HF OM3GI made about 900 QSO. VHF/UHF bands were half-empty because of winter.
OM3GI works on HF
Laci OM2VL despite those made over 100 QSO during the first hour on 144M. OM5CM and OM5KM afflicted on 23 and 70cm and QSOs increased there very slowly. High level of noise on 23cm incurred that Palo had to close his hamshack . We werent QRV from evening to morning. In the end we eliminated noise 3 or 4 hours before end of contest. We found out that noise was produced by bad network UTP cable. After that we could continue. Direction into Germany was the most nourishing.On 2m we made more than 170 DL. Finally we logged 565QSO on 2m,129QSO on 70cm and only 28QSO on 23cm. See: Reports below
Jozef continued in ARRL contest. 20m was opened widely to west coast US, but 15m wasnt opened like in CW. Signals on fifteen came through max. from midle-west. Jozef made only a few CA and AZ calls. He finished with over 3700QSO and 254 US/VE states.
Report:144MHz
Nr of QSO:565
Total: 205 693
ODX : SK7MW v JO65MJ na 898 km
DXCC :171xDL( 90733) 119xOK( 35568) 63xOM( 7216)
41xSP( 16823) 36xHG( 4764) 30xS5( 9469)
24xI ( 14359) 24xYU( 8782) 22xOE( 3918)
19x9A( 5558) 8xYO( 4040) 4xUR( 1765)
2xHB( 1454) 1xE7( 346) 1xSM( 898)
TOP 10
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1. SK7MW JO65MJ 898 km
2. IK1AZV/1 JN34QM 891 km
3. DL9EE JO43SV 886 km
4. DF0VK JO31TO 844 km
5. DP4D JO41ES 806 km
6. IZ1ESM JN45FB 787 km
7. I1MXI JN44LW 759 km
8. DF7OG JO52BN 757 km
9. YO3FOU KN34BK 743 km
10. HB9DUR JN47BM 731 km
Report 432MHz
Nr of QSO : 129
Total: 35 211
ODX : DL5YBZ v JN48LW na 669 km
Pocet DXCC : 12
DXCC : 35xDL( 17386) 30xOM( 2341) 20xOK( 5017)
11xHG( 1161) 9xOE( 1362) 9xS5( 2663)
6x9A( 1588) 4xSP( 1484) 2xYU( 817)
1xI ( 499) 1xUR( 541) 1xYO( 352)
TOP 10
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1. DL5YBZ JN48LW 669 km
2. DL1RPL JO62LI 607 km
3. SP2DDV JO83VE 589 km
4. DL0BLA JO62QH 587 km
5. DL3LA JO51WH 576 km
6. US5WU KO20DI 541 km
7. DK0NA JO50TI 531 km
8. DG1MD JN58KI 523 km
9. DF0MTL JO61JF 522 km
10. DK2EA JO50UF 519 km
Report 1296MHz
Nr of QSO : 28
Total: 6 707
ODX : IZ4BEH v JN54VK na 606 km
Pocet DXCC : 8
DXCC : 9xOK( 2546) 5xHG( 507) 4xOM( 302)
3xDL( 1408) 2xI ( 1116) 2xOE( 256)
2xS5( 377) 1x9A( 195)
TOP 10
1. IZ4BEH JN54VK 606 km
2. IK3COJ JN65BN 510 km
3. DJ2DA JO61PG 500 km
4. DL3JAN JO61VB 460 km
5. DH1FM JO60OM 448 km
6. OK2M JN69UN 358 km
7. OL4K JO70TQ 351 km
8. OK1IA JO70UP 344 km
9. OL3Z JN79FX 341 km
10. OK1KJB JN79IO 301 km
Summary table OM3GI (ARRL SSB Contest)