Well, I’m not sure what to think of this one. Equipment played very well. I didn’t sleep more than 2 hours so plenty of BIC time (“butt in chair”), too. Conditions were quite okay also but still only a bit over 340 QSOs/140k points in the log – rather disappointing! 🙁
I missed about 20-25 QSOs from JO30/31 and another 30+ QSOs from OK. There were no holidays yet in North Rhine-Westphalia (i.e. JO30/31) and as Germany was knocked out of the FIFA World Cup quite early it probably wasn’t due to people watching football all weekend long either. On the other hand we had quite good weather down there but even then people normally return to the radio during the evening or early Sunday morning to hand out a few points but not so this time. Strange!
There was some slight tropo condition enhancement during the contest, too. While it was not that pronounced overhere, i.e. I “only” worked a few more east coast Gs than usual, there was a good path from LA to western and southern DL as well as from the U.K. to OK/OM and southwestern DL. Some Gs even worked down into Hungary over 1.400 km during the night! But still activity was lacking quite a lot, really a pity! 🙁
But lets wait and see what the result is good for! Tom, DG3FK/DR1H was on again from JN59OP and should have done over 700 QSOs so probably the clear winner again. With some luck my result should still be good enough for a TOP3 finish … we’ll see. 😉
Contest Report from DH8BQA in JO73CE at 144 MHz
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Contest : DARC JULY '18
Date : 2018 Jul 07 to 2018 Jul 08
Section : 01 144MHz Single OP
QTH : Woltersdorf
TX : IC-7300, HA1YA-TRV + PA, 750 W
RX : IC-7300, HA1YA-TRV
Antenna : 10 ele DK7ZB Yagi, 20 mAGL, 70 mASL
Log : TACLog by OZ2M, 1,995, http://www.qsl.net/oz2m
QSOs : 344
-invalid: 0 Points/QSO
-valid : 344 QSO-points (*1) : 140063 407
WWLs : 77 WWL bonus (0) : 0 0
DXCCs : 20 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0
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Total score : 140063 407
ODX : G0FBB/P in JO01LD at 931 km
Worked World Wide Locators:
JN37: 2 JN77: 2 JO02: 4 JO44: 2 JO64: 2 JO90: 3
JN38: 2 JN78: 3 JO10: 1 JO46: 2 JO65: 7 JO91: 1
JN39: 2 JN79: 18 JO20: 3 JO50: 7 JO67: 1 JO94: 2
JN47: 4 JN86: 3 JO21: 1 JO51: 15 JO68: 1 KN08: 1
JN48: 6 JN87: 3 JO22: 1 JO52: 9 JO70: 22 KN09: 2
JN49: 5 JN88: 8 JO30: 4 JO53: 5 JO71: 8 KN18: 1
JN57: 1 JN89: 14 JO31: 9 JO55: 2 JO72: 4 KO04: 2
JN58: 2 JN95: 2 JO32: 3 JO57: 1 JO73: 6 KO12: 1
JN59: 4 JN96: 1 JO33: 2 JO59: 1 JO74: 2 KO13: 1
JN68: 2 JN97: 4 JO40: 5 JO60: 10 JO80: 6 KO14: 2
JN69: 6 JN98: 4 JO41: 8 JO61: 14 JO81: 1 KO15: 3
JN75: 1 JN99: 10 JO42: 4 JO62: 21 JO82: 1 KO25: 2
JN76: 3 JO01: 3 JO43: 6 JO63: 4 JO83: 3
Worked DXCCs:
9A : 2 G : 7 LY : 7 OM : 15 PA : 4 SP : 24
DL : 155 HA : 8 OE : 7 ON : 5 S5 : 5 UA2: 3
EU : 1 HB : 4 OK : 77 OZ : 9 SM : 6 UR : 1
F : 3 LA : 1
Top 20 QSO-points:
20180708 0145 G0FBB/P 559 217 599 258 JO01LD 931
20180708 1010 9A8D 519 298 599 200 JN95LM 919
20180708 0009 9A7D 559 211 599 208 JN95CI 918
20180707 2307 G5LK/P 51 200 51 370 JO01QD 903
20180707 1728 G4ZAP/P 52 109 57 166 JO01PU 886
20180707 2248 G3XDY 539 193 559 035 JO02OB 886
20180707 1926 G4SWX 55 147 55 004 JO02RF 865
20180707 2312 G6IPU/P 51 201 53 159 JO02QV 858
20180707 2249 G4CDN 599 194 599 022 JO02SS 849
20180707 2123 HG3X 599 171 599 186 JN96EE 834
20180707 2220 S59DEM 59 185 59 340 JN75DS 825
20180707 2355 HB9KAB 599 209 599 218 JN37WA 821
20180707 2342 HB9GF 55 206 59 247 JN47BC 803
20180707 2349 HB9RF 59 207 55 177 JN47FB 795
20180708 0445 LA0BY 539 225 559 006 JO59IX 785
20180708 1331 HB9PZQ 52 335 59 147 JN37XK 778
20180708 0127 UZ3I 559 216 599 289 KN18JT 773
20180707 2231 S50C 59 187 59 365 JN76JG 771
20180708 0650 ON4KHG 52 251 52 093 JO10XO 759
20180708 0724 F8KID 55 257 55 325 JN38AT 750