Russian DX Contest
Call: VE9AA
Operator(s): VE9AA
Station: VE9AA
Class: SOSB/80 HP
QTH: NB
Operating Time (hrs): 3:54
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Countries Oblasts
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160:
80: 219 0 47 13
40:
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 219 0 47 13 Total Score = 65,880
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
Because I've had some recent antenna damage, the plan was to put in a decent
single band effort on 40 or 80m.
Family stuff into the supper hour precluded a 40m effort, so 80m it was.
Contest started slow on 80m 45mins before SS, but I was happy to pick up a few
of the louder stns in EU and a couple in the USA.
Once the sun went down I had my best hour @ 84....I suppose not too bad for this
contest, as it's Eurocentric and everyone is still working everyone on 80m over
there.
Very few Russians worked. I just wasn't hearing them. 3B8XF was ~559 but the
pileup was deep.
A little after an hour of semi-darkness, the QRN started coming up and the
signals went down down down. Scandanavians were in the noise and no Russians to
speak of. Even the big guys were not workable, so I went and watched TV.
Came back around local midnight and the noise was still there, but signals were
up ever so slightly. Worked a handful of Russians, Eu's and a few US, scanned
the band 4-5 times and not finding anyone I hadn't already worked, threw in the
towel !
Radio =IC-7410
Antennas for Radio 1 include, but not limited to:
80m - Wire 4-square of Inverted L\\\'s in the trees (Comtek)
N1MM+, CM-500 Mic, N3ZN paddle, SO2R+ box.
(small 550w amps used for some contests)
Thanks for the Q\\\'s
CU (all of a sudden) in the next one.
dit dit
Mike in NB, VE9AA
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