Dear OMs and Yls,
Last night I came back from dinner at our local with the XYL. I sat
down at the radio and heard F5IN at about 21:06 UTC working a contest. Ah
it is the Russian 160M contest -hmm. Oh it seems that one does not just
work UA land. This is good as there would not be enough activity to keep
going. It would just be a bore.Okay another good thing is that the
contest is over at 24:00 so I could stay up for it. An hour and six
minutes of the four hours is lost but I am still pretty sober not having
consumed too much - thank God. Lets give it a try.
Well this contest was an absolute toot - I enjoyed it from start to
finish. I like short contests!I worked 130 QSOs, in 32 DXCC and 27
Russian regions for a score of 43,011.At the start I was not hearing any
of the Russians who were spotted so worked some EU stations, then I started
a run and gradually Russian stations started calling in.During this
time I worked Greece and the UAE. Later things started to flag and the USA
was coming in so about ten North American QSOs were added of course
including VE1ZZ, Jack as a starter. This activity from W/VE was good as
for the last hour the contests really flagged. There were not that many
Russian or EU entrants but it was a most agreeable evening and all the more
so as it was not expected.
Post Contest by a couple of minutes V5/DL3DXX in Namibia was worked for
a new 160M entity.
It seems that the inverted L on the original SteppIR radial field is
not doing too poorly.I hope to improve this before the Stew Perry.
Thanks to all.
73 Doug EI2CN
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