Condx were average at best, lots of QSB. Especially the DX QSOs usually took a while but of course you have a bit more time for these during the night.
Activity was quite low, especially in Germany – seems everybody watched Football! But also worked around 20% less Czech stations than normal during a July contest. Fell asleep Sunday morning around 6:30 local time as activity had dropped a lot and there were simply no new stations to work anymore and nobody answered my CQs. Thus decided to take a one hour nap. Unfortunately I didn’t hear the alarm clock so instead of 1 I lost 3 hours costing probably some 30-40 QSOs. Damn! Will have to wait and see what influence it will have on final placement.
On the other hand I had the highest kilometer average ever! Taking out the 2 local QSOs (5 + 15 km) the average was even higher at almost 424 km/QSO! Amazing, probably due to all the mid-range DLs missing and some good DX during the night …
Contest Report from DH8BQA in JO73CE at 144 MHz
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Contest : DARC July Contest '16
Date : 2016 Jul 02/03
Section : 01 144MHz Single OP
QTH : Woltersdorf
TX : IC-7400 + PA, 750 W
RX : IC-7400 + MGF1302
Antenna : 10 ele DK7ZB Yagi, 20 mAGL, 70 mASL
Log : TACLog by OZ2M, 1,995, http://www.qsl.net/oz2m
QSOs : 416
-invalid: 0 points/QSO
-valid : 416 QSO-points (*1) : 175204 421
WWLs : 83 WWL bonus (0) : 0 0
DXCCs : 21 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0
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Total score : 175204 421
ODX : YT4B in JN94SD at 1079 km
Worked World Wide Locators:
JN37: 2 JN77: 2 JO01: 1 JO46: 2 JO64: 4 JO94: 3
JN38: 2 JN78: 2 JO10: 1 JO50: 14 JO65: 4 JP70: 1
JN39: 7 JN79: 15 JO20: 1 JO51: 18 JO68: 1 KN08: 1
JN47: 5 JN85: 1 JO21: 3 JO52: 11 JO70: 26 KN09: 2
JN48: 5 JN86: 4 JO30: 7 JO53: 4 JO71: 7 KN18: 3
JN49: 3 JN87: 3 JO31: 16 JO54: 2 JO72: 5 KN29: 1
JN57: 2 JN88: 10 JO32: 2 JO55: 1 JO73: 7 KO04: 1
JN58: 4 JN89: 11 JO33: 2 JO56: 1 JO79: 1 KO05: 1
JN59: 4 JN94: 1 JO40: 8 JO57: 2 JO80: 10 KO10: 2
JN63: 1 JN95: 5 JO41: 5 JO59: 1 JO81: 2 KO14: 2
JN68: 6 JN96: 2 JO42: 6 JO60: 20 JO83: 2 KO15: 5
JN69: 7 JN97: 4 JO43: 7 JO61: 22 JO84: 1 KO24: 1
JN75: 2 JN98: 3 JO44: 3 JO62: 18 JO90: 5 KO25: 2
JN76: 5 JN99: 13 JO45: 1 JO63: 2 JO91: 4
Worked DXCCs:
9A : 7 HA : 9 LY : 11 ON : 2 S5 : 7 UA2 : 2
DL : 208 HB : 4 OE : 8 OZ : 10 SM : 6 UR : 4
F : 3 I : 1 OK : 79 PA : 5 SP : 29 YU : 2
G : 1 LA : 1 OM : 17
Top 20 QSO-points:
20160703 0247 YT4B 599 286 599 286 JN94SD 1079
20160703 0242 IQ5NN 599 285 599 417 JN63GN 1078
20160703 0052 YU7W 599 274 599 309 JN95RD 972
20160703 0134 9A0V 559 281 599 286 JN95PE 963
20160703 0120 9A4V 599 278 599 325 JN95KI 935
20160703 0126 9A8D 559 280 599 318 JN95LM 919
20160703 0124 9A7D 599 279 599 167 JN95CI 918
20160703 0231 G5LK/P 599 284 599 306 JO01QD 903
20160703 0109 9A1N 599 277 599 271 JN85LI 894
20160703 0000 HG3X 599 263 599 243 JN96EE 834
20160702 1803 SK4AO 519 154 329 001 JP70TO 830
20160702 1825 S59DEM 55 160 55 214 JN75DS 825
20160703 1204 9A2EY 559 383 599 136 JN75XV 821
20160702 1949 HB9GF 599 194 599 161 JN37WB 817
20160702 2043 UY4W 599 216 599 069 KN29EO 810
20160703 0926 HB9LU 59 344 59 141 JN47FB 795
20160703 0729 9A2L 59 303 59 077 JN86HF 793
20160703 0746 LA0BY 55 311 55 011 JO59IX 785
20160702 1954 S53V 599 198 599 125 JN76UH 773
20160702 2055 UZ3I 599 217 599 174 KN18JT 773