[3830] Rus DX KM1W(@W1KM) M/2 HP

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                    Russian DX Contest

Call: KM1W
Operator(s): W1KM, W1UE, W1FJ, K1EO
Station: W1KM

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: ma
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Countries  Oblasts
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  160:    12     1        8         0
   80:   293    11       61        22
   40:   563    43       80        51
   20:   652    34       77        52
   15:   177    12       58         5
   10:    40    27       23         0
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Total:  1737   118      308       130  Total Score = 4,277,070

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Conditions were simply terrible.  Signals were weak, lots of QSB, lots of noise
on the low bands.  We figure we're going to take a beating in our UBNs this
year!

I can't remember a contest when 40M had the highest mult count.  We had to go
to 40 early, and had to stay late, because there were no other options!  Never
could get a run going on 15M- 2 of those 5 oblasts were worked Sunday morning. 
Never did hear a Russian on 10 or 160M.  160M was even worse than the first day
of CQWW CW this year- skimmer gave us lots of spots, but between the high noise
level and non-existent signals it was all for naught.  Thanks to Filipe CR6K for
the 7 QSOs on 5 bands.  He was our only 160M SSB Q.

Oh, this was a mixed mode contest?  We didn't find a lot of activity on SSB
compared to CW, or at least skimmer made us feel that way.  Since all 4 of us
would really prefer just to work CW, that's what we did.  I doubt even a full
MM operation would have resulted in many more Qs- the propagation to Europe,
and especially Russia, just wasn't there.

Thanks to everyone for the Qs.  This is still one of my favorite contests, even
with the poor conditions.

Dennis W1UE


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