[3830] Rus DX JA1BPA(@JG1ZUY) SO SSB HP

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Russian DX Contest

Call: JA1BPA
Operator(s): JA1BPA
Station: JG1ZUY

Class: SO SSB HP
QTH: Chiba, JAPAN
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Countries  Oblasts
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  160:                               
   80:                               
   40:    1    193       45        53
   20:   58    344       42        47
   15:         192       28        48
   10:           1        1         0
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Total:   59    730      117       148  Total Score = 1,517,655

Club: University of Tokyo Contest Club

Comments:

*** O Murphy, Murphy, why did you visit me? ***

Upon arrival at our club shack, I had finished my usual SO2R setup,
when I realized that my usual logging PC had an RFI problem.  When 
I transmitted at full power for some time, the notorious "blue
screen" 
tended to appear and the PC was rebooted.  I had to change to my 
substitute PC and install N1MM+ and MK2R Router, which I could barely 
finish a few minutes before the contest started.  The new PC stopped 
capturing TX freq. via CAT when I transmitted, and it became obvious 
SO2R on CW was out of question.

I decided to dump my 50+ CW QSOs that were already made, and 
changed to SSB only entry.

The propagation on 20/40mb was so-so, but our 75mb antenna was
broken.   (I normally operate 80mb CW only for this contest, so
I did not fix it.) 15mb was poor, and 10mb was useless.  I asked
1 JA to QSY to 10mb to give me a multiplier, and this one was 
the only QSO made on my favorite band.

Thank you for all QSOs, especially to Russian friends who copied 
my rusty Russian language.

Best 73/88,

de Icko, JA1BPA






had some issues when I transmitted full


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