Russian DX Contest 2011 Call: DL1IAO Operator(s): DL1IAO Station: DL0WW Class: SO CW HP QTH: JN49FO Operating Time (hrs): 24 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs Countries Oblasts ---------------------------------------- 160: 159 44 48 80: 367 53 56 40: 490 68 64 20: 661 80 75 15: 374 77 58 10: 111 51 19 ---------------------------------------- Total: 2162 0 373 320 Total Score = 9,586,962 Club: Bavarian Contest Club Comments: 2x IC756Pro3(INRAD) + Alpha87A TopTen decoders, WX0B bandpass filters, Idiom Press CMOS4's & homebrew 2R-switching WT v3.23.0 on 3x HP Omnibook XE3 (160) 27m shunt-fed tower, Mag-Loop (RX) (80) Bobtail (NW/SE), Delta Loop, DP @10m (40) 3el M2 Yagi @20m (linear-loaded), DP @10m (20) 5el M2 Yagi @27m (15) 5el Yagi @25m (10) 6el Yagi @24m (sharing tower with 40m) My YL suggested to shift station setup to Thursday after work. So we spent Friday evening & Saturday morning together and I felt really relaxed when I switched on the radios and started to check propagation at 11:30Z. Nice! Condx were better than last year, even on the low bands. I did not have a real 10m opening but tried to ionize the band a bit and finally squeezed out some multipliers again. On Sunday almost all signals were extremely weak scatter and actually peaked at about 150deg. I still miss a real RX antenna on 80/160m and something to cover a second direction on 20m to work some US at the same time. Isn't it nice to have a few things left on the wish list? I expect to see some big CW scores from I4DZ, LZ8E, LZ5R, S53MM etc. Compared to them I never get much going into Russia on 40m early in the evening and I just return to 20m for another 1 or 2h until the band dries out. That's the time where the QSO gap always opens and it continues until the end. I also need to S&P for those eastern Oblasts on 80/160 as they rarely answer my CQ. However, I was delighted to even work some UA0 there and I'm happy with the score. Glad to see T70A (IZ3EYZ) and HB9CA (DJ5MW) having so much fun on their contest expedition. Good ears, too, thanks for 6 bands! CU in the next one, 73, Stefan DL1IAO@contesting.com http://www.dl1iao.com