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We use 3 x Microham Microkeyer II and 1 x Microham MK2R+.

Station control uses 4 x Microham Station Master Deluxe units controlling all switching devices (Antennas, Stacks, 4SQ, Beverages) and rotators from any operating position.

The software employed is Wintest, DX-log by 9A5K and FT-2000RC by DF3CB for remote operation.

We use an antenna switching matrix for 4 Radios (3 ports on same time) to 18 Antennas (3 groups for each Band). This allows 4 radios to choose 3 different antennas (groups=stack) per band.

We have a Beverage box which switches 4 radios between 8 antennas. RX comutator 3 RX + beverage + inband to 3 radios. 3 x ACOM 2S1 Switch.

Radios are: FT2000D, 2xFT2000, FT1000 MkV Field, 2xPerseus. Amplifiers are 5 x R-140 (LV6) (10 tuning memories 160-10m), 2 x R-140 (LV6) (10 tuning memories 20-6m mainly used only on 6m), 1 x OM-3500A.

Our team consists of E70R Ranko, E70T Vlado, E71DX Sanjin, E73CQ Fudo, E74AW Dado, E76C Zoka, E77E Robi, E77W Rade, E77WM Zvone Plus WRTC 2014 competitors: 9A1TT Rich, 9A5K Chris, E77DX Braco.
We are active in all major SSB/CW contests and sometimes RTTY. We have many European and some Worldwide trophies. We are the holder of some European records!

Our best results are achieved in CQ WPX and CQ 160 in the SOAB and MS categories.

You can also hear E7DX on 2m, usually in the July and September contests from one of the locals hills. We are using there K3 + TRCV – Javornik II with a homebrew amplifier using a GS-35B and various antennas systems.

Since 2007 the station has been constantly improving and this will continue. We QSL with classic paper cards via bureau or direct and we also use LoTW.

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All seven antennas are mounted on small trolleys, which can be lowered if one of the antennas need maintenance. The upper antennas can be rotated 450 degrees, the lower ones only about 70 degrees (between JA and USA). All rotors are Yaesu GX2880DXC's.

This setup was fine for the first year or so, but then I realized I needed something better for 80, than a Delta loop. I decided to erect a 150 foot self-supporting steel tower, and a 3 element Opti-Beam antenna has been installed for 80 meters. The monster required a bigger rotator, so an Italian-made GE1500/T was installed.

This is most probably the biggest amateur radio antenna in Hungary, and there are not many bigger ones in Europe either... The only "single element" band remains 160 meters, where the tuned tower vertical is not a winner, so sooner or later a better TX antenna will be built.

When I decided to try Multi-Two, I bought FTDX5000 transceivers, and OMPower amplifiers for the two main operating positions, and the secondary radios are an FT2000 and an FT1000MP.

Each pair of radios have Acom lockout devices. The antennas are controlled by a SixPack and StackMatches from WX0B.

We take part in almost every contest, which means I drive on most Fridays from Érd (near Budapest) to Debrecen, about 150 miles one way. Then Friday afternoon we have to fix Beverages, check software and all equipment, and have contesting fun over the weekend

So far we have never had serious technical issues, except that because of the location (a remote "farm" in the middle of a large forest), in stormy weather we lost electricity once or twice.

Operators include people from my former HG7T core team (HA5AGS, HA5WA, HA5MY, HG5DX), but I also found good people in Eastern Hungary (HA8IB, HA9PP, HA0DU). Occasionally other contesters join us, like HA5PP, HA0NAR, HA8JV, UZ5DX).

The very continental location (grid locator KN07vn) is not the greatest one for winning. The rule of thumb in European contesting is "the one who works the most Americans, is the winner". There is normally no big difference between the number of multipliers worked by us and the stations in Western Europe.

We even have an advantage of working Asia easier. But this does not compare with the fact that some of our competition are 25% closer to the US, and to the Caribbean, which provides a little advantage for them to catch more multipliers on low bands. This is a given, and it is especially true, when 10 and 15 meters are wide open. We will see when these bands are much worse (that is, no big runs of US on 10), then our larger antennas, and capability of TXing in at least two directions should bring us closer to the top.

The installation of the second 40 m Yagi, and the incorporation of a tribander towards Africa to the system, should also help.

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