Wow one day on this reflector and I already have one new band country! More on that in a minute.
I use to be very serious about working the Russians trying to collect all the Oblasts. I looked at my UA9S and UA9W QSLs and found the following: Prefix Zone 16 Zone 17 No Zone UA9S 1 11 2 UA9W 3 3 1 (and one scratched out 16 changed to 17 My guess is that the Russians did not know that UA9s and w were zone 16. Many in contests sent 17 and did not realize they were in 16. If my memory is correct there were some UA4W who are in zone 17. I think it depended on which side of the Ural Mountains you were located on. Now back to that new band country. I worked and confirmed V85HY on 30 meters back in 1997. Some how over the years I lost that QSL, or so I thought. Ever since I have been trying to track down JA1WTR to get a new QSL. Yesterday I upgraded my DX4WIN from 4.07 to 6.03 and signed on to this reflector. I happened to see the email threads about the UA9s so I thought I would check my UA9 box and the first card I came to just before the UA9S stack was no other than V85HY. I thought this was too good to be true. But it was. I don't know who to thank for starting the UA9 thread, but thanks for the new country! That was country # 324 on 30 meters. It isn't easy to find new ones on 30 meters here at W3UR. 73 Bernie, W3UR
