[3830] Rus DX KE3X(@N3HBX) M/2 HP

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                    Russian DX Contest

Call: KE3X
Operator(s): KE3X KD4D
Station: N3HBX

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

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Countries  Oblasts
----------------------------------------
  160:    11     0        4         0
   80:   196     1       47         9
   40:   476    36       71        22
   20:   464   194       88        45
   15:    83    12       46         5
   10:     2     3        3         0
----------------------------------------
Total:  1232   246      244        79  Total Score = 2,265,199

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Thanks to John Evans N3HBX for letting us use his fine station.   Everything
worked great and it was nice to be back.   The last time was Russian DX 2016
when my 10-year old kept me company that weekend.

Original plan was to do this as WRTC2018 practice from the KE3X station, but
upon further reflection and recognizing the current solar conditions, we
switched to The Farm to work more Russians and figured the overnight hours would
be more interesting (or less dull, depending on how you look at it).

Primarily Mark did 10, 15, 40 and 160 and I focused on 20 and 80.  First time
doing M/2 in this event, and nice to not worry about lockouts.   Normally we
would have left a lot of QSO's on the table with no In-Band operator but given
the conditions it didn't seem to matter much.

I caught some short naps in the operating chair while Iron Man Mark was logging
whopping 6, 10 and 8-QSO hours on 40 overnight.  (Another 'You're not at W3LPL
any more' moment :-)  Then Mark nodded off for a few minutes in Hour 24 while I
finished up on 20.

We worked a lot of VA QSO Party folks who gave us legitimate QSO numbers,
curious if those QSO's will make it through on the final scoring.  Overall
Points/QSO was 4.7.   20-Meter CW was 5.4 as that's where most Russian stations
were logged.   Amazing to see the Oblast numbers from the European Multi's -
it's clearly a different contest from over there!

73,

Ken KE3X and Mark KD4D



Day        Hr   1.8  3.5  7    14   21   28   Tot  Accum 

2018-03-17 12   0    0    22   71   7    0    100  100   
2018-03-17 13   0    0    0    62   25   0    87   187   
2018-03-17 14   0    0    0    57   21   0    78   265   
2018-03-17 15   0    0    9    72   5    0    86   351   
2018-03-17 16   0    0    4    62   14   0    80   431   
2018-03-17 17   0    0    0    62   11   2    75   506   
2018-03-17 18   0    0    0    43   7    3    53   559   
2018-03-17 19   0    0    20   51   4    0    75   634   
2018-03-17 20   0    0    32   41   0    0    73   707   
2018-03-17 21   0    0    52   20   0    0    72   779   
2018-03-17 22   0    0    61   43   0    0    104  883   
2018-03-17 23   0    7    46   26   0    0    79   962   
2018-03-18 00   1    43   39   0    0    0    83   1045  
2018-03-18 01   4    35   43   0    0    0    82   1127  
2018-03-18 02   3    34   27   0    0    0    64   1191  
2018-03-18 03   2    26   23   0    0    0    51   1242  
2018-03-18 04   1    27   25   0    0    0    53   1295  
2018-03-18 05   0    19   31   0    0    0    50   1345  
2018-03-18 06   0    3    31   0    0    0    34   1379  
2018-03-18 07   0    0    22   0    0    0    22   1401  
2018-03-18 08   0    1    5    0    0    0    6    1407  
2018-03-18 09   0    1    9    0    0    0    10   1417  
2018-03-18 10   0    1    7    0    0    0    8    1425  
2018-03-18 11   0    0    3    48   0    0    51   1476  
Total           11   197  511  658  94   5    1476 1476


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