I was able to place the Yagi its well deserved spot. What a difference... I've made comparisons between the vertical and the Yagi. Well... it's huge... There is lot of stations which I can't even hear with the vertical but booming on the beam... I should have had this much earlier...
I tried to do SO2R my homemade switch box worked pretty well but RF got into it and made it impossible to switch when I was keying the main radio. I suspect that the relay couldn't make proper contact between the two states...
Unfortunately this affected my final score much as I lost ~20-25 mults which could have been easy to log with the second radio... Furthermore I made a strategy mistake as well with trying to call CQ as much as I can losing the focus from the 15 pointer island stations. Iliya LZ4UU made very good score concentrating on the islands. I logged almost double number of QSOs but the 13.35 points/qso in contrast to my 7.27 point/qso speaks for itself. Grats goes to him!
Win-Test worked without any problem. This contest software is really superb. |
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