Winter without snow - is it possible then make winter expedition???
Anyway we tryed to make, this time gang was RU1AS,RX1AX (2 HF MAN RV2FW/1 & RA2FW) & OH5LID. Before BCC 2006 I made with Alex RU1AS small trip for hunting good QTH for BCC from KO57. That trip we looked also out locator from Alex grandmother house - KO58ap it was. Just seems we are getting older so January we want to be inside house... But this time wx was most of time only wet, just last night little bit -c and country went more dry, great to make set down. So what was our result during expedition - 30 litre beer, 7 litre vodka, one broken PTT inside TS-2000, 1500 km driving (900 km with trailer tower in tow bar) but also few QSOs we made!
1st Jan Evening I start from KP41kl, just after midnight pass OH-UA border (again tower went to Russia, just maybe 30min extra in custom, not much at all)
2nd Jan After 300km driving was in RU1AS home, 3 hour sleeping and wake up. Anton RX1AX we saw in 1st shop, just some drinks and foods, then back on the road, this time distance was not too long, about 150km from St Petersburg. VHF setup was already made when our HF gang RV2FW/1 Victor & RA2FW Juri went there (seems HF side like sleep longer...) Evening went quite well, also NAC was interest, not so menu QSOs but some QRM we really made. Just QTF OH/ES we had some QRM hole time, other direction were ok. Evening was some problems with VUSHF DX-peditions Shouts also via GPRS connection, at first we guess abt money off from pre paid sim card, but after 1 day saw that just pc another place and works ok... just GPRS card show QSO ok but really it's not that anyway... Every trip we learn something new, how clever we'll be after 20 year?
3rd Jan Morning Anton's Kenwood TS-2000 stop giving PTT signal for linear, seems something blow up. My FT-897D also didn't want to key linear, something really strange with CAT output. Victor had FT-100, was keying ok with same cable than my but we didn't had cable between RIG-PC... really shit... so after several hour planning, drinking and smoking was only way to fix problem start to drive with 100w output. (hmmm... next time maybe better start that directly hee!!!) Anyway evening was nice to work with good burst, just we didn't find so menu point for MWC as was interest, but anyway made our best score with this contest period.
4th Jan Morning was time to make set down, just HF gang wanted to be there longer (maybe plan to make 1st HF qso also?). 20 UTC at least home!!! Once trip made, next shower will be June... Then again can start contesting in new MWC period. Just pse update your missing sqr info now, and we are more happy when try work with U, also it gives more interest to plan futures expeditions when we know who really want some sqr.
73 Janne OH5LID
1 1428-1437 DG6JF/P 26/26 JO33ON-1511 2 1443-1451 DF6YL 26/27 JO31WS-1594 MWC 1 3 1551-1610 DK4TG 26/26 JO31LB-1693 2 4 1615-1619 PA5DD 26/26 JO22IC-1749 3 5 1622 ES6RQ 59/59 KO28WA-254 NC 1625- PA1GYS NC 1644- SP2JYR 6 1707-1726 DF2ZC 26/26 JO30RN-1702 7 1732-1745 OK1DFC 26/26 JN97GW-1393 1 NAC 1801 RA1AY 59/59 KP50EA-154 2 1802 RX1AS 59/59 KO59FX-149 3 1806 RW1AG 55/55 KP50AB-157 4 1817 RA1WU 59/59 KO47EV-128 5 1818 YL3QLF 59/59 KO26XM-339 6 1820 LY2BUU 59/59 KO15XH-523 7 1823 ES5PC 59/59 KO38IK-194 8 1840 OH6UW 559/559 KP22WH-468 9 1841 OH1ND 559/559 KP00XL-500 10 1842 ES2DF 559/559 KO29GG-323 11 1900 OH6VV 559/559 KP22DN-537 12 1910 OH6QR 559/559 KP22BN-542 13 1913 OH7HXH 559/559 KP53HG-516 14 1940 SM1PYO 559/559 JO97GI-693 15 1941 SM1MNT 559/559 JO97CJ-711 16 1946 LY2R 559/559 KO15VR-498 17 2018 RA1WP 58/58 KO47EV-128 18 2018 RA1WL 59/59 KO47EV-128 8 2051-2059 PA3CEE 26/26 JO33JI-1556 4 9 2101-2107 SP2JYR 26/26 JO92GP-944 5 NC 2107- OZ1IEP NC 2128- PA3ECU 10 2156-2206 SP6GWB 26/26 JO80HK-1255 11 2209-2215 OK1UAK 26/26 JO70MB-1359 6 12 2215-2222 DL6ZAU 26/26 JO40JF-1656 13 2225-2245 OK1DFC 26/26 JN79GW-1393 14 2249-2300 DD0VF 26/27 JO61WB-1332 7 15 2306-2224 PA1GYS 26/26 JO22WW-1631 16 2225-2245 OK1KT 26/26 JO70WE-1308 8 17 2345-2352 OK1TEH 26/26 JO70FD-1379
18 0003-0007 LA4YGA 26/26 JO48AE-1281 9 19 0027-0037 DL1YMK 26/27 JO31QX-1607 NC 0039- DD3SP 20 0056-0106 PA3COB 26/26 JO32MF-1610 10 NC 0114- PA3DOL 21 0156-0201 SM7FMX 26/26 JO65KN-1092 22 0210-0256 S51AT 26/27 JN75GW-1757
Long delay after PTT broken... sometime try something too clever, after that 100 W in use
23 1550-1553 DG5AAG 26/27 JO51MM-1441 24 1555-1607 DJ9FG 26/26 JO52TD-1366 25 1616-1618 DL1YAW 26/26 JO41FX-1544 26 1619-1625 DL5WG 26/27 JO52VK-1337 NC 1626- PE1BTX NC 1641- ON7EH 27 1657-1700 DH3YAK 26/26 JO31RS-1617 11 28 1706-1709 OZ1IEP 26/28 JO55XU-1131 12 29 1710-1755 PE1HWO 26/27 JO21GV-1771 13 30 1800-1823 F5JNX 26/26 JO37PV-1916 31 1828-1843 PA3ECU 26/26 JO32CF-1657 14 32 1844-1854 DK3WG 26/26 JO72GI-1200 33 1900-1906 DG0FE 26/?? JO62UN-1224 Special working style -- we drop down and forget signal he give... 34 1907-1910 PA3BIY 26/28 JO22EB-1777 35 1911-1930 F6HVK 26/26 JN27LH-2084!!! ODX 36 1934-1940 DK5EW 26/26 JN47NX-1817 15 37 1940-1951 PA5KM 26/28 JO11WL-1837 16 38 1952-2002 DJ9MG 26/26 JO52TC-1369 17 39 2003-2011 DJ8MS 26/27 JO63CT-1225 18 40 2013-2020 DL1RNW 26/26 JO62GH-1306 19 41 2023-2025 ON7EH 26/26 JO20FV-1843 20 42 2031-2035 PE1GNP 26/26 JO31IX-1645 43 2036-2048 OZ8ZS 26/26 JO55RT-1162 44 2048-2054 PE1BTX 26/26 JO22KW-1623 45 2057-2104 DL1SUZ 26/26 JO53UN-1268 21 46 2105-2116 DL8GP 26/26 JN39LH-1822 22 47 2118-2126 PA3DOL 26/26 JO22MT-1687 48 2128-2131 DL8BDU 26/26 JO43AA-1505 23 49 2132-2136 DL5XJ 26/26 JO54AE-1320 50 2140-2148 DL5ROB 26/26 JN68HG-1625 51 2154-2156 DD0VF 26/27 JO64AD-1214 52 2158-2205 DD3SP 26/27 JO72EN-1193 24 NC 2211- HA5OV BURST NEARLY EVERY PERIOD 53 2241-2246 OK1FD 26/27 54 2247-2251 HA6NY 26/26 JN98WC-1351 25 55 2252-2309 YU1EV 26/27 KN04CN-1704 56 2313-2318 PE1AHX 26/27 JO21OS-1743 26 57 2320-2328 HA6NQ 26/27 JN98WA-1359 58 2335-2345 PE1GUR 26/26 JO22TH-1685 NC 2351- DB8AT
59 0006-0014 HA5CRX 26/26 JN97KO-1434 60 0018-0022 HA5CW 26/26 JN97PM-1428 NC 0024- UX5UL 61 0039-0042 RZ6BU 26/27 KN84PV-1607 62 0042-0051 HA5OV 26/27 JN97NJ-1446 63 0055-0105 UT6UG 26/26 KO50EI-922 64 0110-0112 OM5CM 26/27 JN98DF-1393 NC 0112- UX5UL NC 0139- PA2DW 65 0212-0215 S54T 26/27 JN75EW-1761 66 0221-0229 S53J 26/26 JN75EV-1765 27 67 0234-0239 OK2VSO 26/27 JN99AJ-1289 68 0243-0251 DF5NK 26/26 JN59PM-1583 NC 0254- S57TW 69 0500-0519 RA3WDK 26/26 KO81BR-861 70 0520-0527 S57TW 26/26 JN75EX-1759 71 0540-0550 DH2UAK 26/27 JO71FU-1242 72 0550-0560 DL4DWA 26/27 JO61QH-1337
27 happy hams who don't need anymore KO58:
DD0VF, DD3SP, DF6YL, DH3YAK, DJ8MS, DJ9MG, DK4TG, DK5EW, DL1RNW, DL1SUZ, DL8BDU, DL8GP, HA6NY, LA4YGA, OK1KT, OK1UAK, ON7EH, OZ1IEP, PA3CEE, PA3COB, PA3ECU, PA5DD, PA5KM, PE1AHX, PE1HWO, S53J, SP2JYR.
Unfortunately still 21 unhappy who are still missing KO58, even they update MWS 2006:
DF8IK, DG1VL, DG2KBC, DG9YIH, DL0UL, DL1RTL, DL9MCC, DM1CG, DM2SR, I3LGP, IV3DXW, OH5LID, OH6HFX, ON4IMM, ON7UC, PE2SVN, S54M, S55AW, S57MSU, SP7OGP, YU7KB.
Last night with full moon.
Time to relax RU1AS, RX1AX and RA2FW.
After relaxing time to go on air using some rocks says OH5LID.
OK I want to do it first says RX1AX.
Anybody mind I take this - seems RX1AX to think.
Rocks and spirits are true hard hitters. Now we are done says RV2FW/1 and RX1AX. But why not plan next trip?
OH5LID