[3830] WPX CW LZ9W M/M HP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: LZ9W
Operator(s): LZ1ZD,LZ1ANA,LZ1RGM,LZ1UQ,LZ1PM,LZ2UZ,LZ2UU,LZ2FV,LZ2CJ,LZ3UM,LZ3FM,LZ4UU,LZ5VK
Station: LZ9W

Class: M/M HP
QTH: Breznik - nr Sofia
Operating Time (hrs): 42

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:  307
   80:  906
   40: 1603
   20: 2482
   15: 1286
   10:  955
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Total: 7540  Prefixes = 1284  Total Score = 20,914,100

Club: LZ Contest Team

Comments:

We have started M/M contest activity from LZ9W back in 2003, but such thing has
never happened to us till WPX CW 2008. 
We have had power cut once in CQWW which lasted about 20 min. 
However, this time local power company has turned LZ9W during 2008 WPX CW into
a disco club :-(. 
After first few hours there was one power cut of 20 min followed within next
two hours by another two 20 min black out periods. Little bit later during most
productive hours on 80 and 40m there was 1 hour long power cut. After this one,
N1MM logging software crashed totally and it took us about 40 min to get all
PCs working properly again. Other problems experienced with N1MM software in
M/M use on CW is another separate story :-(. 
Electricity returned and we decided to continue operating in spite of lost two
hours. On Saturday afternoon during most productive hours on 15 and 10m power
supply company shutted down the electrictity two more times, so lost operating
time reached totally about 5.5 - 6 hours.After a last black out period we
almost quit the contest, but finally decided to go for it and there were no
problems with electricity supply till the end.

Conditions on high bands were very good and we have been able finally to make a
score very close to our European record set in 2006. We even made more QSOs than
in 2006 while operating only 42 hours out of 48.
So, beside power cut problems and N1MM software "getting wild" at times all the
rest went smoothly - Hi.

Now time for hard work to put up new towers and new antennas during next months
has come. Two new towers and stacks for 15 and 10 are to be installed in
July-August.

See you all again in CQWW SSB in October.

73, de Wally LZ2CJ
on behalf of LZ9W Contest Team members


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