Russian DX Contest
Call: KH7XX
Operator(s): N2NL
Station: KH6YY
Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: Hawaii
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Countries Oblasts
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160: 21 0 4 0
80: 59 1 14 8
40: 219 14 47 27
20: 470 69 76 69
15: 296 166 52 39
10: 100 127 30 8
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Total: 377 1165 223 151 Total Score = 3,389,562
Club: Florida Contest Group
Comments:
The RDXC is a very different contest outside of Europe, even more so when the
path to EU is a polar one. Propagation made things very difficult at times,
but also made things interesting. The start was brutally slow (only 125 QSOs
at 14Z), but things seemed to recover slowly as the day went on. At local
sunset (0440Z) 20m was wide open across Russia with booming signals, tons of
fun aside from trying to copy serial numbers sent at 36WPM with polar flutter.
During this one hour alone I added 40+ Oblasts on 20. After darkness the high
bands quickly closed, but at 08Z I worked a loud UW2M on 10m LP and at 09Z 20m
suddenly re-opened to NW EU short path, with booming signals. The opening was
short, and at 19120z the bands went mostly silent. Later I discovered that the
K jumped back up to 6 around this time. Perhaps this odd opening was tied to
that event. At 10Z, after 30 mins with only 10 QSOs and only hearing the same
dozen diehards on 40/80/160 that I'd already worked, I pulled the plug and went
to bed. The low bands seemed to suffer from lack of participation, and 10m
didn't open any deeper into Russia than to the far southeastern Oblasts.
My sincere gratitude goes to Alex, KH6YY, for allowing me to use his station
for my first SOAB effort from Hawaii, and an additional special thanks to Kimo
KH7U and Stu KH6FP, who did most of the station reconfiguration from M/M to
SO2R for me the week prior while on site doing other station maintenance.
Without Kimo, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to operate. Thank you!
Thanks also to the RDXC committee for hosting this event, which was fun
regardless of conditions!
73, Dave N2NL
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