Russian Local Contest The Ural Cup participation

I participated in Ural Cup organized by the Chelyabinsk Branch of the Russian Amateur Radio League SSR on April 23.

I had total 19 QSOs on the CW mode of 20m and 40m bands. Contest took place for 4 hours between 1600z and 2000z. But I gave it up at 1830 because I was very sleepy and condx fell down.

The exchange number of this contest is two alphabebs of grid locator of operator's QTH and serial number starting from 001. I sent PM001. I tested number sending before the start of the contest with many kinds of logsofts--N1MM, 5MContest, Ctestwin. But I failed in sending it without mistakes because the serial number failed in changing from PM001 to PM002. So to speak, number was fixed at PM001 because two letter PS before serial number disturbed to change serial number. Eventually, I decided use Ctestwin with manualy changing number.

This contest is one of the Russian local contest, but overseas stations may participate in it. But this contest isn't introduced in SM3CER DX Contest website and its contest rule is introduced in QRZ.ru only in Russian. The overseas participants are almost those who live in the CIS and Eastern European nations.

Condx on the band of 20m is very good in midnight in JA. Signals from EU such as UA, UR, YL and LO was very beautiful!!


（QSO Entities）
AS: UA0, UN,
EU: UA, UR

（RIG)
YAESU FT-450M 50W
（ANT)
40m: Shortened vertical style made by fishing rod. 5mL
20m: Full size vertical style made by fishing rod. 5mL

QTH: At home in Amagasaki City, Hyogo, JAPAN (JCC#2703, GL#PM74QS)
Logsoft：Ctestwin
OS：Windows XP