CQWW WPX - SSB
Call: RA9OW
Operator(s): RA9OW
Station: RA9OW
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: NS
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Prefixes
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160: 0
80: 63
40: 61
20: 75
15: 187
10: 84
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Total: 470 x 281 = 393,119
Club: CSDXC
Comments:
The initial aim was to work some DX primarily on HF bands and give some points
to seriouse people by means of working and pitilessly spotting them. The
conditions promised to be good after the Aurora. Though with a 80 m band Delta
for the 10-15-20 and 40 m band antenna you can't expect very much. So my start
was 4 hours after the contest began. 15 m happened to be much better than 20,
quite a few NA stations and people heard me a lot better. 10 m was very good
too. My working place is in the room where my younger 3 year-old son likes to
have his afternoon sleep. So I prefer CW and don't very often work SSB contests
from home. After a 4 hour break I continued with #159. It's always fun to work
somebody whose number is less than yours even if you're very far from being a
leader.
Still can't explain why I decided to carry on operating on low bands during the
night and moved my rig to the kitchen. People rarely put themselves consciously
to such exquisite torture like chasing EU with about 80 w out into a delta
shooting mostly in the opposite direction :)) The 80 m delta hangs from the
Eastern side of a 12-storey ferro-concrete building and is tuned in CW portion
of the band. Mind that my QTH is in the middle of Russia and it's over 4000 km
either way to Western EU and Japan. Still it was fun. The night resulted in
another 130 Qs made + breakfast cooked + early morning coffee in bed to my XYL
served.
Next morning HF condx seemed to be much better. Had a very good S&P session to
NA on 15 m. Several times tried to call CQ on the way of A51AA who gradually
moved up the band calling loud US stations. Finally just gave a direct call a
few kc's above N2NT whom he'd worked last. Bingo! Then ran thru 10 m rapidly
collecting OC and SEA mults like I was about to score a good result. Then had
to withdraw from the kitchen because "...kitchen is the place where I cook and
definitely not the place where your Oscar with Whisky should crazily call
Roger! Roger! Roger! all day long..."
So I moved and spent an hour and a half logging my kitchen handwritten QSOs on
the computer. Then we were visited by my friend with his wife and W0DKA... We
talked, ate, drank and sang songs as we usually do.
The bands were in very good shape when I finally turned my radio on again in
the evening. But the contest was irretrievably lost. So I spent some time in
search for P3A with a few Siberian guys in the crew, spoted them and some other
folks including KH6ND on 40 m and went to bed very early.
See you in WPX CW. I'm going to crack 500 Qs!
I mean it.
73! Ilya, RA9OW
P.S. Sometimes just say QRZ without your callsign and give the weak ones a
chance to work you. It's a real pain in the ear to wait again and again until
the pileup is over and it's your turn. The little guys will be there for quite
limited time when the band is on the peak while the big ones will last longer.
Besides you will most probably not hear them call CQ. So sometimes just ask
QRZ, but don't do it twice without your call. Your second incognito QRZ is also
a bore.
QTH: Novosibirsk, Russia
Rig: ICOM-751A 100 W
Ant: Delta for 80 m @ 100 ft (the highest point).
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