[3830] Rus DX K5GN(@W5KU) SO CW HP

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                    Russian DX Contest

Call: K5GN
Operator(s): K5GN
Station: W5KU

Class: SO CW HP
QTH: Texas
Operating Time (hrs): 15
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Countries  Oblasts
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  160:   20     0        10         0
   80:   71     0        31         5
   40:  290     0        55        33
   20:  389     0        60        59
   15:   71     0        31         4
   10:  100     0        19         8
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Total:  941     0       206       109  Total Score = 1,718,010

Club: 

Comments:

This contest is a lot of fun with good sunspots!  Condx Saturday sounded very
FB, even on 80m where signals were good enough to compete with the local
thunderstorm QRN.  Even worked Europe on 160!

Local weather screwed it up for me.  I had a leadership meeting at church
during prime time morning Europe opening so knew it would just be a fun fishing
weekend starting 1000QSOs behind.  Then the rains came.  It took double the
usual time to get out to the station, plus had to unplug everything shortly
after getting started due to an electrical storm passing overhead.  The QRN did
not let up the whole time - even late at night.  

Apparently lightning took out the 80m and 15m antenna relays.  Maybe also the
NE long beverage - need to figure that one out.  80m was solved inside the
shack with more time off the air, but the 15m relay box is up on the tower, so
only a few contacts made before the storm came through.  Sunday morning
something went intermittent in the 12v system that basically stopped everything
from working properly with half an hour to go in the contest.  It also kept me
from working the XZ on 20m after the contest.  Ugh.  It's more fun when things
are working. 

I had just repaired ice storm damage on Friday: two broken beverages and put
the 75m inverted vee on a tuner for CW since one leg of the 80m inverted vee
was on the ground.  Still to go from that event: replace a broken tip on the
low 10m yagi.  The net of this weekend is the repair to-do list got a lot
longer instead of shorter.  Lots of spring and summer station maintenance to
do!

But a bad day fishing is better than a good day working, so it's all good.

Dave K5GN


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