[NCC] Fwd: Rus DX K8AZ(K8MR) SO Mixed HP

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

Russian DX Contest

Call: K8AZ
Operator(s): K8MR
Station:  K8AZ

Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: Ohio
Operating Time (hrs):  19
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs   Countries  Oblasts
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160:    7      0        2   0
80:   43     2       25          1
40:  223     77     54        24
20:   336    165       63         41
15:   57     20     27         1
10:   47     14       10    0
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Total:  713     278      181        67  Total Score =  1,179,736

Club: North Coast Contesters

Comments:

I  operate the major DX contests as part of the K8AZ multiop team, so I 
need  some
good single op efforts for WRTC qualification. Fortunately Tom opened  up 
his
excellent station for me to do a S/O effort on one of his normal  
non-contest
invasion weekends.

Conditions obviously were not up to  what we had hoped for, but at least we
missed the worst of the solar storms  from earlier in the week. QRN levels 
were
also quite high on the lower  bands.

It was interesting to be on the less than good geographical end  in this 
one -
working Russians through the much closer Europeans, and  working EU who for 
much
of the time were pointing their antennas towards RU  and/or had louder QRM 
from
the east. But it was an easier contest with only  24 hours and a morning 
start
time, and finding and defending frequencies  was not nearly as difficult as 
in
the majors. 

I made it through EU  sunrise as planned, took a nap, woke up at 09Z to 
find the
bands empty. So  I worked the few guys who were still around, then headed 
home.

73   -  Jim    K8MR