Thursday, March 20, 2008

4U1ITU - RUSSIAN DX 2008 - the video

The video may also be seen in slightly better quality from "you tube" by following this link.
If you have a broadband access, you may also download the video in much better quality (640x480, stereo), by following this link (about 50Mb).
You may also embed the video on your site or blog by copying the "embed" script on the "youtube" a/m page. 73's Pat

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

4U1ITU - RUSSIAN DX 2008 - a quick analysis...

As mentionned earlier, knowing the station, I did not expect to be really competitive, so I am not disapointed. However it is always interesting to look at what could be improved...
Despite higher number of QSO's, we are not competitive... too few multipliers, worst pt/qso average. Having an attractive callsign does not fully compensate for station performance !
DR0W vs 4U1ITU: the main problem is the low number of multipliers on all bands...
Our low percentage of SSB QSO's did not help either !Our points rate-sheet by band and by mode: More SSB would have helped increasing the average Point/QSO... but except in rare occasions on 40 and 20, we did not manage to keep a decent SSB-run going... Again an attractive callsign does not fully compensate station performance, especialy when the condx are very poor... fortunately condx can only improve...

4U1ITU - RUSSIAN DX 2008 - soon here...

Russian DX-Contest: A short CR is visible here. Pics, graphical stats and video, soon on this blog !