[WWYC] Rus DX 9A7P(9A6XX) SO Mixed LP

[Hrvoje Horvat]

Had a blast tho not many WWYCers worked!
Europe guys miss a lot not showing up in this one!
Oh well, next one for me is ARI probably.. WPX SSB sucks anyway!



>                     Russian DX Contest
>
> Call: 9A7P
> Operator(s): 9A6XX
> Station: 9A7P
>
> Class: SO Mixed LP
> QTH: Pazin Downtown
> Operating Time (hrs): 24
>
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>   160:    0     0
>    80:  309    80
>    40:  253    79
>    20:  489   100
>    15:  422    92
>    10:  146    48
> -------------------
> Total: 1619   399  Total Score = 4,710,594
>
> Club: Worldwide Young Contesters
>
> Team:
>
> Comments:
>
> TS440S (100W)
> 2 element Quad (20, 15, 10m) fixed to north
> dipoles 40 and 80m
>
> 943 UA stations and 171 DX stations were logged.
> Best hour 118 qsos (15m CW) 1300-1400z
> Worst hour 37 qsos
> Highest last 100 rate: 122,8
> Highest last 10 rate: 245,2
>
> 10m: out of 146 qsos 120 qsos were with UA, only 12 other DXCC (JA, BA,
SU, CT3,
> 4L, A6, EX, EY, UN and only 3 other then UA DXCC from EU: 9A, DL and OH).
> Expected lot more but real short skip never happend.
>
> 15m: had a blast and made my best hour here. SSB wasnt that succesful but
CW
> rocked out! No complains.
>
> 20m: standardly good, but the only station worked from the more western
side of
> the states was N6ZZ (also the only one worked whole sunday morning)
>
> 40m: expected much more from this band but I just couldnt find a real spot
for
> CQing - band was more crowded then in CQWW plus a lot of QRM from BARTG
guys.
> 40m was sure a reason why my lowest rate was only 37.
>
> 80m: had few runs but only 1 NA worked (K3NA), noise level was very high.
Think
> I got some RF into PC which confused CT and started to count numbers wrong
(?),
> and radio control went crazy changing modes (but not bands?!) at his own
will.
>
> 160m: I gotta work up with this band in future, it would raise my score
for a
> million with at least new 40 mults.
>
> Overall: Goal was 1500 qsos and 5M. Got personal best in Q's ever from
this
> little station in the center of the town. Fantastic rates, first 7 hours
got me
> 700 qsos. Condx were poor but still I could hear UA just about anytime and
> anywhere. Wished there were some short skips on upper bands to get the
Europe
> mults but bands opened well only in the last 2 hours when I've worked
almost 40
> new mults (including ones like SP, F, IK).
> What makes me happy is that I still have a lot of space for improving!


Hrle - 9A6XX