[3830] CQWW CW UA9BA SOSB/160 HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: UA9BA
Operator(s): UA9BA
Station: UA9BA

Class: SOSB/160 HP
QTH: Karataban MO04uq
Operating Time (hrs): 40

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  875    26       80
   80:                    
   40:                    
   20:                    
   15:                    
   10:                    
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Total:  830    26       80  Total Score = 237,440

Club: Ural Contest Group

Comments:

My plan to join Canary isl. EF8M M/2 didn’t come together. So I had to decide
what to do in THE CONTEST.
   Three weekends prior to THE CONTEST I spent on 160m from my small station on
the shore of lake Karataban (MO04uq) with a short 27m tall vertical with three
temporarily installed 50m long radials (the 10 permanent 50m long radials were
all gone in just few days after CQWW CW 2007) that I had to unroll each time I
wanted to operate on 160m. I was simply amazed at the CONDX on Top Band during
those weekends! I just couldn’t believe some of the signals, especially from
NA hours before our sunset and hours after! N7UA at one night was measured as
loud as s9+15dB!!! That was above my understanding of things. I couldn’t
believe that signal until Bob started a chat and revealed  some detailes that
only Bob and I knew so he made me believe that was him - N7UA, not a pirate. So
having had such remarkable experience I made my choice to go into THE CONTEST
SOSB 160M real quick. And now I am one of those that in years from now will be
in position to tell my own Top Band fairy tales of the unique period of quiet
sun with no spots on it for some 200+ days in a row and what wonders it brought
to us amateurs on the Top Band. It’d be  just like listening  now to those
that experienced the 1957 sunspot maxima and how everybody could work everybody
around the globe on 10m with a wire and a 50W AM TX.   
   Yes, indeed it was a fantastic weekend for me! The first NA that I heard was
K7BG at about 00:20 after the start of the contest. Then N0NI (never wkd’em),
then just too many from zone 4.  At 01z I was called by VO1HP with good signal.
 Finally I worked my first USA and that was Bob N7UA at arnd 04z.  In the first
5 hours I had over 350 QSOs in the log from 13 zones and 56 countries!  With a
short vertical, 700W TX and no RX antennas! I was fevering! I couldn’t wait
till the next round. So it came but alas the band wasn’t as good. It was much
noisier and signals didn’t sound clean and clear (they were sort of muddy) and
not loud. So I struggled the Saturday night with such CONDX till about our
sunrise and only managed 280 QSO’s . After the SUN showed up the band came to
life! Isn’t it another wonder?! I always thought and saw the other order of
things before this weekend! The band was good till 12:00 LST (3.5 hours into
the daylight!). Intrestingly  the loud NA stations weren’t the usual BIG GUNS
except for the few like VY2ZM and N7UA. For instance K3WW had a much better
signal than L3LR. W3LPL was barely audible, K1DG had a good one but problems
with reception. K9DX is worth special mentioning. John had a GREAT signal but
very handicapped in receive. Last station I was trying to work this morning was
again N0NI and VE3EJ . That morning I heard many zone 5 stations but very few
came back.  I again was too excited and didn’t sleep and at 14:30 LST started
to listen to the very quiet band. And at 14:45 LST  I heard K7BG cq’ing weak
but Q5, and that’s 2.5 hours before sunset, at the prime time on 15M band!!!
What a THRILL!!! Few minutes later I found N7UA, then N6TR (never wkd you
Tree). WOW!!!  Then the JA guys started to roll in and the first West European
was OZ1LXJ and DK0RTC at 11:54z (their sun’s high!!!).  Isn’t all that
AMAZING?!  This last night was THE NIGHT! Very quiet band  and clean signals
from all over the world ( I only haven’t heard zone 02, 06, 13, 31, 36, 37
and 38). It felt as if I was dreaming and just watched myself in a dream! Lots
of RARE DX QSOs! How about SU9HP calling in?! Nigel OX5AA was excellent copy
for hours!!! KL7HBK was nice copy for at least an hour! D4C was all over the
band looking for multipliers and even once stupidly calling “ JA ONLY” for
half an hour while EU was begging for QSOs. 3X5A were there all the time loud
and clear! WHAT A BLAST!!! TNX TO THE ORGANIZERS FOR THIS MOST MEMORABLE ONE! 
TKS ALL FOR THE Q’s! CU NEXT ONE!
73’s & GL, Willy UA9BA


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