[CCF] Rus DX OH4A(OH6KZP) SO SSB HP

[Kim Östman]

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73
Kim / OH6KZP


----- Original Message ----- 

>                    Russian DX Contest
>
> Call: OH4A
> Operator(s): OH6KZP
> Station: OH4A
>
> Class: SO SSB HP
> QTH: Kisko
> Operating Time (hrs): 24
> Radios: SO2R
>
> Summary:
> Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Countries  Oblasts
> ----------------------------------------
>  160:   0      212      33        50
>   80:   0      482      58        60
>   40:   0      438      53        58
>   20:   0      585      75        58
>   15:   0       70      22        13
>   10:   0        6       3         0
> ----------------------------------------
> Total:   0     1793     244       239  Total Score = 5,717,754
>
> Club: Contest Club Finland
>
> Comments:
>
> This is a raw score I haven't been able to check yet, because I haven't 
> run the
> Cabrillo creation on my 8-month-old Windows Vista laptop that is acting up
> right now ( &#%%&¤$@¤ !! ).
>
> A fun contest, lots of activity. This time the run-up to the contest on 
> Friday
> evening and Saturday morning felt like another contest, with struggles to 
> get
> the DX cluster connection working through Bluetooth and GSM/3G, the 
> logging
> program (well, to be honest, I guess more accurately to get the operator 
> to
> know how to use the program...) to co-operate with the SO2R setup, and one 
> of
> the amplifier relays to connect properly. Anyway, all was ok a couple of 
> hours
> before the contest (which started at 2 pm local time). First time using 
> N1MM
> for SO2R, which was interesting.
>
> Tried to utilize the DX cluster opportunity to the fullest, mostly for
> multipliers but also for finding 10-point Russian stations to work. Hats 
> go off
> to our UA-friends for the high level of their activity. Even tried to use 
> some
> Russian language with the help of the phonetics provided at the RDXC site, 
> but
> I don't know if that helped me any....
>
> 160/80 were fine. As with many of my SOAB efforts, the 40m score is again 
> the
> odd ball out, perhaps this time mirroring my extreme dislike of 40m SSB. 
> Like
> OH6NIO said once when I was operating with him, having to work 40m SSB 
> should
> be considered a punishment....! I guess I should undergo some mental
> reprogramming for that. 20m is a bit difficult to Russia from southern 
> Finland
> because of the skip, but I guess it went ok. Only a few contacts on 15m, 
> with
> some "real" DX openings on Saturday evening and some sporadic-E on Sunday.
> Tõnno ES5TV moved with me to 10m on Sunday morning for the mult, and I 
> thought
> that would be the only QSO, but a few more popped up. Seems like CW rather 
> than
> SSB was the place to be for the sporadic E, based on cluster spots and the 
> few
> times I went down to the CW portion of the band to listen if there was any
> life. 15/10 were hampered by some man-made noise of up to S7-level at 
> worst,
> but fortunately not all of the time.
>
> Thanks to Jukka OH6LI and Merja for letting me use their summer cottage 
> and the
> station! And thanks to all for the QSOs.
>
>
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>