1997 WW-CW, author RV1AW [ENG]
Posted by RA1AR on 16.02.2010 08:21
Call: RU1A
Class: M/S HP

 BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES
 160      140      203     1.45     19      78
  80      485      691     1.42     29     107
  40      847     1804     2.13     38     135
  20     1689     3840     2.27     39     133
  15     1175     3079     2.62     37     134
  10       97      224     2.31     30      81
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Totals   4433     9841     2.22    192     668  =>  8,463,260

Operator(s): RU1AA, RW1AC, RV1AW, RN1AM, RX1AA, RZ1AJ,
             UA1ARL, RA1ARZ, RN1AN, VADIK, AL, Yura

Equipment Description:
INV.V 160,
2el 80,
3el 40,
4el/4el 20,
6el/6el 15,
8 el,7el 10

What a great contest! CQ WW always brings out amazing activity that speacially pleasantly than propagation is coming back and participate in such contest becomes more and more exciting.

Our aim was to break 8.0 M. As a result great job was done and 8,4 M. were made.

So no complains for first day with good US pile-up up to 5Z on 40 and long time propagation to JA on 20 and 15. Unexpecting US propagation on 15 up to 21z during 4,5 hours just added to us fresh energy. The second night was hard and not so intersting, US stations on 40 were enough weak except big-guns as usual. Despite our numerous attempts we could'nt create acceptable rate on 40 and spent a lot of time running EU on 80. 20 and 15 opens to JA about 5Z and we tried to work them on both bands.

Unfortunatly, we've lost 10 minutes US propagation and some Carribean multipliers 10 due to problems with amplifier.

Anyway, this CQ WW gave us a lot of pleasure and several important ideas concering strategy, which we are planning to realize next year.

See you incoming contest!

RW1AC Vlad, RV1AW Arno