[3830] ARRLDX SSB CR2X M/S HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: CR2X
Operator(s): OH2BH,OH2MM,OH8NC
Station: CR2X

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Azores, EU
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  182    39
   80:  637    57
   40: 1112    60
   20: 1985    60
   15: 2214    60
   10:  947    53
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Total: 7077   329  Total Score = 6,984,999

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

Those Five Years of Azores activities, from Extreme West of Europe.

Lot of effort was put to find and build a competitive radio station, located at
competitive part of Europe. Azores was selected and the team got into new
heights, making also their services available to their immediate community. It
is now five years from the beginning of CR2A/CR2X Saga.

On October 4, 2008 Mr. Ricardo José Moniz da Silva, the Mayor of the City of
Ribeira Grande, paid a visit to the new location and made the very first radio
contact at CR2A/CR2X. He spoke with Mr. Avelino Bettencourtt, CU2DE, another
Azores operator in the remote village of Ribeira Quente.

The significance of this radio contact was that Mr Bettencourtt's amateur radio
station offered the only means of communication from his village when the area
was hit by heavy rains, causing a landfall and destroying many houses in his
part if the island and isolating the entire area from the rest of the island.

The CR2X radio location is manned by the Azores-Finland Friendship Consortium,
and it is activated frequently in conjunction with Amateur Radio special events
and radio competitions. The 2012 ARRL DX Contests were just such and it will be
followed by the entire group gathering in Finland during the CQ WPX SSB contest
weekend at OH8X. On that same weekend their Azores site will be activated as
CQ8X.

The group behind the Azores-Finland Friendship Consortium consists of:
Fernando Tavares, CU2BV, former Finnish Honorary Consul to the Azores; Jose
Melo, CU2CE and Francisco Gil, CU2DX and from Finland, Martti Laine,
OH2BH/CU2KG, Toni Linden, OH2UA/CU2KI and Juha Hulkko, OH8NC/CU2KH, backed by
their families and the entire team at Radio Arcala.

The CR2A/CR2X is part of Radio Arcala station network. www.radioarcala.com &
www.cu2a.com


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