[TVARC] Rus DX K2PS SO CW LP
w3us at casa-aloha.net
w3us at casa-aloha.net
Sun Mar 21 10:47:50 EDT 2021
Excellent effort Pete under trying conditions - losing your amp AND a major geomagnetic storm to boot.
Since this was the “Russian” contest I only stalked UA/R stations. 20 and 80 were a bust with only one each, bringing the total to 11 Russian oblasts and six Ukrainian stations.
Conditions have now returned to normal - for the sunspot minimum, so we hope to do better in the Virginia QSO party.
73
Rusty
Call: W3US <https://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=W3US>
Operator(s): W3US <https://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=W3US>
Station: W3US
Class: SO CW HP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs): 3.0
Location: USA
Summary: Compare Scores <https://www.3830scores.com/comparescores.php?arg=7UccBzuqfvie&call=W3US>
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Countries Oblasts
160:
80: 1
40: 15
20: 1
15:
10:
Total: 17 0 5 11 Total Score 2,400
Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club
> On Mar 21, 2021, at 10:05, K2PS Pete Stafford <psk2ps at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This contest attracts a good amount of activity every year, and at 24 hours
> doesn't require a huge commitment of time. So I was looking forward to it
> until Thursday, when my amp started smoking. And that's smoking in the
> literal sense. The Elecraft KPA500 will turn on, but applying more than
> minimal drive shuts it down. Not looking forward to shipping it out to
> California for repair.
>
> So it was low power for me. And this with pretty awful conditions. If I
> had a nickel for every time a station CQed in my face... Fifteen was a
> bust, and so everyone crowded onto 20M during the daylight hours. 40 was
> decent Saturday evening - I even was able to run 40 stations in about an
> hour at 8p. But otherwise it was S&P all the rest of the time.
>
> When I first moved to The Villages I accepted that things would be different
> - contesting would be really challenging, and working DX wouldn't be as easy
> as just swinging the big beam around and turning on the full legal power
> amp, as I was now forced to run barefoot with a low dipole. But I added the
> amp a couple of years ago, and it made a huge difference - which makes
> losing it even tougher.
>
> One last thing, since this was the Russian DX contest. I came across a
> fascinating story about a DXpedition by some Russian amateurs, who planned a
> trip to some godforsaken island in the far north of their country, and had
> to do so by traveling 1812 km by snowmobile to get there. They were due to
> arrive by this weekend. Now, I wish I could say that I worked them, but
> apparently they have not (yet) been heard. You might be interested in
> reading about their journey, which was last posted on yesterday. It's in
> Russian, but Google Translate makes it (somewhat) readable:
> https://legendsarctic.com/dnevnik_ekspedicii_ri0b_2_2
>
> 73, Pete, K2PS
>
>
> Russian DX Contest - 2021
>
> Call: K2PS
> Operator(s): K2PS
> Station: K2PS
>
> Class: SO CW LP
> QTH: FL
> Operating Time (hrs): 7
>
> Summary:
> Band CW Qs Ph Qs Countries Oblasts
> ----------------------------------------
> 160:
> 80: 7 4 0
> 40: 115 31 5
> 20: 72 27 2
> 15: 6 4 0
> 10:
> ----------------------------------------
> Total: 200 0 66 7 Total Score = 53,290
>
> Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club
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