Spent the weekend up in JO73 again. Met with Paul, DL5CW, Falk, DK7YY and locals Heiko, DG1BHA, and Uwe, DL3BQA. Wanted to do some antenna setup testing for WRTC 2018 which Paul is the Antenna Director for.
Paul, DL5CW, mounting the Spiderbeam
Lots of stuff to install and still lots of open points to improve for future installations. Weather was fine all weekend long but doing all the antenna work in temperatures around 30°C was less pleasant. Although we were quite exhausted we still spent some time activating DKØWRTC/P in the DARC CW-Fieldday. Stopped early after reaching QSO number 1000 (yes, some 32 dupes included) as we still had to dismantle everything. Also sent in the log just as a fixed station. We did have generators to supply the radio with power on site but really didn’t want to miss all the comfort of a fridge, coffe machine, a.s.o. after all the hard work thus took electricity supply from a hundred meters away instead. That also saved us from needing to refill the generator every few hours … 😉
Contest : IARU Field-Day R1 (DARC)
Callsign : DK0WRTC/P
Mode : CW
Category : FIXED
Locator : JO73CF
Operating time : 20h28
BAND QSO DUP DXC POINTS AVG
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160 106 4 19 400 3.77
80 208 6 34 680 3.27
40 341 13 35 982 2.88
20 242 9 34 686 2.83
15 65 0 19 199 3.06
10 6 0 5 18 3.00
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TOTAL 968 32 146 2965 3.06
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TOTAL SCORE : 432 890
Operators : DH8BQA DK7YY DL5CW
Soapbox : Elecraft K3 + Spiderbeam + Dipoles
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Nice to have some visitors during the weekend again. DL7VOA & DL7VOB came for a visit from Berlin and lend a helping hand (thanks guys!) as well as locals DGØFW + XYL, DL3BUA, DL3BVA + YL DL3BYA and DM7MRE. Enjoyed some delicious cake and coffee … 😉