9A1A ARRL ..long

[Robert Orehoci]

As Dick said, ARRL contest from Europe side is resting thing.Following
the sunspot we did not expect to much activity on upper band. This 
year we were suprised with 20 M on good side, but on 15 SFI do everything
to disappointed us. Total score was same as in CW part. That is also
unusually beacuse every year we do at last 1M more on CW than on SSB.

160: Great first night with signal peaking s9. Everything looks like
	 that 95 score on 160 could be reached first night but at the end
	 were 150. With lot of hope we wait for second night but as many
	 time before we left the night with empty hands. Just 40 more
	 enought to finish with 191/31
 80: Before CW part we put one beverage to US which prove our quality
	of receiving and number of QSO's, so we expect the same result this
	time. The beverage do well but few 'good boys' do better. Maybe
	60 % of night they successfully make noise, record some other
	station and leave them on our frequency. So this was reason for
	bad receiving, and many comments from US as no ears, do they use
	receiver .. I would like to apologize to them who waste they time
	trying reach us during that period. First night was ok with 400 
	and on the end with 837/47
 40: Just two years ago we do our best score always on 40m. Where gone
	 that good time ? MUF drop below 7, so activity. Now we can say
	 that our 4 KLM is not enough to survive the battle on 40. Only
	 different between noise on 80 and 40 is that on 80 sometimes
	 'good guys' gave up and gone but on 40 broadcast is always there.
	 Our problem and not only our was that sometimes few EU station
	 use same frequency for receiving. Maybe we should also have same
	 band plan as US station. End with just 692/53
 20: That was the band.Great. We took  new tactics on 20. This is
	 receipt. Take one good OP from US. Find empty chair. Open 5 beers.
	 Announce they you have American hostage on couple US DX cluster.
	 Wait 48 hours . Pick up log.
	 Let's go back on air. First station came in the morning our just
	 to say we are there. We wait 2 hour more to start really work. Rate
	 were around 100. After 1 hour some noise came from 20 to 15 M. We
	 check all equipment but did not find any problem, and than see
	 wath is. Wind start and release break on lower antenna on 20 and
	 push it 30 degr. left and right shaking elements. We solve that
	 with wire anchor and rise rate to 150. At the end of first day
	 band close and half our latter raise up and give us 150 qso more.
	 Second day condition behave same as first day except show which
	 start three times afternoon and put s-meter on s9. Good thing was
	 that snow were in early afternoon when rate were bad. After snow
	 we keep good rate and reach 1873/58. 
	 Did I say, now you can release DICK ?
 15: We don't want to spent so much word on so bad band . First day
	 one hour with 160 and whole second day with 30 more. Just N4BP
	 Bob help me to be wake. 
 10: /

All equipment work OK. Mostly ALPHA and TS-950. This time without
multiplier searching just seat and call.
No need to take EMERGENCY TEAM to repair something.
For next contest we will have lower antenna on 20m rotatable

Team: 9A9A Emil , 9A6D Darko, 9A5W Niksa, 9A6A Pero, 9A2DQ Zeljko
	  9A7R Braco, 9A3NR Pop, 9A2EU Zlatko, K4XU Dick & 9A3GW Robert