While stations from the western part of Slovakia enjoyed good weather during OM VHF LOW POWER CONTEST 2008, in eastern Slovakia the situation was completely different. Despite this, the stations from the east were not lazy and it paid off the most for Slava OM0AS, who after a year's hiatus got back to the podium. And if the weather hadn't taken away Jan OM3WZ from Kojšovská hola, the easterners could have had two representatives in the top three...
The propagation conditions were apparently good, several stations had ODX around 700 km. That however, the longest connection was made by OM3WZ with I4VOS/4 at a distance of 895 km! Overall, however, Drah OM3CQF did the best - a perfect result, congratulations!
OM VHF LOW POWER contest 2008
| Order | Brand | Locator | Valid QSO | Points | Points deducted | Performance | Antenna |
| 1. | OM3CQF | JN88RT | 158 | 40.375 | -624 | 5 | F9FT |
| 2. | OM0AS | KN09XA | 48 | 17.059 | 0 | 10 | 16el.F9FT |
| 3. | OM3RLA/P | JN98LB | 59 | 16,498 | -423 | 10 | 16 el. F9FT |
| 4. | OM3WMA | JN88RP | 55 | 13.558 | 0 | 10 | 16 el. F9FT |
| 5. | OM3WZ | KN08LS | 44 | 12,988 | 0 | 8 | 4x7 el.DK7ZB |
| 6. | OM3WYB | KN09RK | 16 | 3.215 | 0 | 8 | 2x10 el. |
| 7. | OM2GA | JN88RT | 20 | 3.122 | 0 | 10 | 7 el.yagi |
| 8. | OM6JO | JN99KB | 16 | 2.714 | 0 | 5 | 4 el.OK1KRC |
| 9. | OM3ZAS | KN08PQ | 15 | 2.692 | 0 | 10 | 4 el.HB9CV |
| 10. | OM7JN | JN98UH | 8 | 417 | 0 | 2 | 2x7 electric yagi |
The corrections of the resulting point sum of the stations are caused by the incorrect behavior of DOS logs in the Windows XP environment. The correct result was determined by recalculation.
I will stop at this point. According to point 15.1.f of the General Conditions of Races and Competitions on VHF a station is disqualified for more than 10% miscalculated distances. Deviation in the length of individual connections is rare, but in several cases there was a deviation in the total sum of points for connections. The biggest deviation was -13.8%.
O tom, či váš denník ráta správne výsledok sa môžete presvedčiť tak, že zalogujete zodesať spojení a súčet Points za spojenia overíte na kalkulačke.
The prize for the winner is a voucher for a purchase at VH Electronics Slovakia (donated by Vlado OM4CW). Thank you!
Finally, we would like to thank all the contestants and teams who were helpful in the implementation of the OM VHF LOW POWER CONTEST 2008, especially Vlad OM4CW (VH Electronics Slovakia), the stations that sent the log for review and also many stations that were on the band on Sunday. Thank you for the beautiful moments and we look forward to seeing you again next year!