[Dx4win] UA9S & W - V85 find!

[Bernie McClenny, W3UR]

Wow one day on this reflector and I already have one new band country!  More
on that in a minute.

I use to be very serious about working the Russians trying to collect all
the Oblasts.  I looked at my UA9S and UA9W QSLs and found the following:

Prefix   Zone 16   Zone 17    No Zone
UA9S        1        11          2
UA9W        3         3          1  (and one scratched out 16 changed to 17

My guess is that the Russians did not know that UA9s and w were zone 16.
Many in contests sent 17 and did not realize they were in 16.  If my memory
is correct there were some UA4W who are in zone 17.  I think it depended on
which side of the Ural Mountains you were located on.

Now back to that new band country.  I worked and confirmed V85HY on 30
meters back in 1997.  Some how over the years I lost that QSL, or so I
thought.  Ever since I have been trying to track down JA1WTR to get a new
QSL.  Yesterday I upgraded my DX4WIN from 4.07 to 6.03 and signed on to this
reflector.  I happened to see the email threads about the UA9s so I thought
I would check my UA9 box and the first card I came to just before the UA9S
stack was no other than V85HY.  I thought this was too good to be true.  But
it was.  I don't know who to thank for starting the UA9 thread, but thanks
for the new country!  That was country # 324 on 30 meters.  It isn't easy to
find new ones on 30 meters here at W3UR.

73
Bernie, W3UR