Uwe, DL3BQA, who has historically the choice of band in RTTY contests at our station, was going to do an SOSB20 entry in this weekend’s CQ WWDX RTTY contest. As 15 m does not open much these days there was not much I could do without interfering too much with him. Our 80 & 40 m dipoles are just a few meters away from the 20 m beam. While the RF interference between 80 & 20 m is tolerable Uwe’s PA has the problem that it measures my 80 m forward power as return power on 20 m so it regularly trips the protection, i.e. reduces power. 🙁 40 m of course gives a bit more interference (2nd harmonic). So it was just a few hours when I could operate a bit. Besides this Chris, DL1MGB, and Paul, DL5CW, were visiting this weekend, too. They attended the Photokina fair in Cologne and it was my pleasure to host them. 🙂
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY Call: DH8BQA Class: SO(A)SB80 HP QTH: JO73ce Operating Time (hrs): 5:40 h Summary: Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones ----------------------------------- 80: 321 8 56 12 15: (60) 10: (2) ----------------------------------- Total: 321 8 56 12 Total Score = 46,816 Club: Bavarian Contest Club Comments: Elecraft K3, KPA500 + Inv-V dipole @50ft. Just handing out a few points ...