The first hour was great with 278 qso on 14 MHz CW. The second one with additional 220 qso on the same band/mode till 13.44 and after we were without electricity more than 4.5 hours due to strong winds and damage to power lines.We spend some time for reconnections and next few hours used just diesel generator and 2 TRX with small PA and rate goes down up to 60-70 qso/hour or so....Then everything went back to normal. Anyway, propagation was great - all of us had real FUN from participation.
Class: M/2 HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 41
Location: Eastern Europe
Band QSOs Zones Countries
160: 278 14 63
80: 1259 26 101
40: 1811 34 128
20: 1892 35 139
15: 898 24 111
10: 187 6 28
Total: 6325 139 570 Total Score 6,006,648
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Poor conditions (with less than 300 NA on all bands) turned WW Contest into EU QSO Party)))
Due to heavy storm electricity was cut off 7 hours before the end of the contest.
It was our pleasure to have Gena UA9MA as our guest!
Class: M/S HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 48:00
Location: Eastern Europe
Band QSOs
160: 147
80: 695
40: 1587
20: 2126
15: 251
10: 0
Total: 4806 Prefixes 1406 Total Score 15,713,456
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another memorable WPX weekend!
with all the RU1A team boys spiced up by a visit of Andy RW7K!
Though having a problem with an inband antenna for proper S/P operation what costed us a few hundreds QSOs, we are almost statisfied with the final result!
Congratulations to P33W, TM3M, LZ73A for great scores,
Class: M/S HP
QTH: nr Saint-Petersburg
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Location: Eastern Europe
Band QSOs QTCs Mults
80: 74 30 43
40: 349 345 83
20: 1261 1075 101
15: 29 9 25
10: 2 0 1
Total: 1715 1459 675 Total Score 2,145,150
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It was much more fun compared to last year.
Conditions were not brilliant but still we were happy with 20m which was the money band for QSO's and QTC's!
There was a good opening on 20m to the US both afternoons, with a lot of QSOs with serial numbers 01/02/03.
On the other hand we've noticed a very low activity from the East (JA/YB etc)
A few funny moments - variety of replies on "do you have QTC?" people were giving UTC/State/name/i would give it if i new what is is))))
One of the pleasant suprises was the sunday morning call of T32AZ on 20m for QTCs!
40m was fair the first day and rather poor on Sunday.
80m was great the first night (our morning) and very poor the rest of the contest.
10 & 15m we expected more, but with only 31 QSOs on those bands it's hardly worth mentioning.
Anyhow we enjoyed the contest and looking forward to WAE 2019!
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Luga
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Location: Eastern Europe
Radios: SO2R
Band QSOs QTCs Mults
80: 81 3 48
40: 336 749 66
20: 451 1785 70
15: 99 139 41
10: 6 0 6
Total: 973 2676 612
Total Score 2,233,188
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I've came back to my station from my vacation Thailand with family 2 hours before contest. It was hard to start because 9 hours was flying and 12 hours was driving from Moscow. Sunday morning was terrible, closed all band and eended my rest period. Anyway it's Fun , as always. Thanks to DJ5MW, OM2VL, OM5ZW, UW2M, LX7I and others for competions.