Finally I had some time to go visit the guys and our station again last weekend. A distance of 2 x 700 km means I need to take Friday and Monday off for traveling and that is rather luxery in QRL currently. But I could make it fit for the VHF May contest. 😎
As the weather was great we also used the chance to finally install our new big 6 m antenna (8 ele YU7EF design) which we bought from Greg, SP3RNZ, last year already and which he brought over and helped assembling it at our location (see Greg’s and Uwe’s blog entries, too). Unfortunately we didn’t manage to install it last year for several reasons but now it’s done and resting above the 15 m beam, thanks to Heiko’s climbing arts. 🙂
Performance seems to be great! We can hear the OZ7IGY beacon louder than ever before and have regular copy on the DB0HGW beacon which I could only hear once in the past during enhanced tropo conditions. So it seems to be a big improvement! 😎 Now waiting for the first big DX openings …
The VHF contest was about average with a tendency to below average. QSB was sever and we only had one QSO above 800 km which is very unusual (as well as no 9A in the log at all!). At least we managed > 400 QSOs again after quite some time although the kilometer average was well below what we’re normally used to …
Contest Report from DF0TEC in JO73CE at 144 MHz
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Contest : DARC-Mai-Contest 2018
Date : 2018 May 05 to 2018 May 06
Section : 02 144 MHz Multi-OP
QTH : Woltersdorf
Co-OPs : DG1BHA;DH8BQA;DL3BQA;DM5DX
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 : 409
-invalid: 2 Points/QSO
-valid : 407 QSO-points (*1) : 153496 377
WWLs : 71 WWL bonus (0) : 0 0
DXCCs : 15 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0
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Total score : 153496 377
ODX : S59DEM in JN75DS at 825 km
Worked World Wide Locators:
JN38: 1 JN76: 1 JO20: 2 JO50: 16 JO65: 5 JO83: 1
JN39: 3 JN77: 2 JO21: 2 JO51: 19 JO67: 2 JO86: 1
JN47: 4 JN78: 2 JO30: 6 JO52: 12 JO68: 1 JO90: 7
JN48: 5 JN79: 10 JO31: 18 JO53: 7 JO70: 19 JO91: 2
JN49: 15 JN86: 3 JO32: 6 JO54: 2 JO71: 13 JO92: 1
JN57: 2 JN87: 1 JO33: 3 JO55: 2 JO72: 7 JO94: 2
JN58: 10 JN88: 8 JO40: 9 JO59: 1 JO73: 7 JO97: 1
JN59: 6 JN89: 8 JO41: 8 JO60: 17 JO74: 1 KN09: 2
JN67: 1 JN97: 3 JO42: 8 JO61: 19 JO76: 1 KO00: 1
JN68: 10 JN98: 2 JO43: 9 JO62: 27 JO80: 3 KO02: 1
JN69: 9 JN99: 8 JO44: 1 JO63: 6 JO81: 4 KO13: 1
JN75: 1 JO10: 1 JO46: 1 JO64: 5 JO82: 2
Worked DXCCs:
DL : 265 HA : 5 OE : 8 ON : 3 PA : 5 SM : 10
EU : 1 HB : 2 OK : 58 OZ : 4 S5 : 3 SP : 32
F : 2 LA : 1 OM : 8
Top 10 QSO-points:
20180505 2330 S59DEM 59 228 59 398 JN75DS 825
20180506 0259 S56K 599 258 599 122 JN76MC 790
20180506 0444 LA0BY 55 273 55 001 JO59IX 785
20180505 2216 HA1ZH 599 207 599 088 JN86LK 776
20180506 0156 ON4KHG 579 247 599 114 JO10XO 759
20180506 0559 F0CVO/P 59 294 59 077 JN38BR 752
20180506 0140 S59P 599 246 599 257 JN86AO 744
20180506 0118 HB9EFK 599 241 599 418 JN47PH 741
20180505 2211 HG1Z 599 205 599 248 JN86KU 730
20180505 1730 HB9CXK 59 122 59 022 JN47PM 720