Back from the “mountain”. Well, “hilltop” is certainly a better description for our location about 100 km north-east of Berlin near the German-Polish border. 😉 Expected bad weather but after all we were quite lucky! A few guys already made it into the field on Thursday evening (Friday was a national holiday in Germany) and had bad luck as it was raining quite strong during the night. Starting Friday morning the weather improved and stayed ok until Sunday evening. We even had a few hours of great sunshine and I even caught a small sun burn. 🙂
Condx were not too good. Although running with 2 antenna systems again we did not do any more QSOs than during last year’s May contest. That was a bit disappointing as we had hoped the second system would give an additional advantage as was the case during September. Yes, it sure helped beaming into different directions at the same time but condx and/or activity was down compared to last year. Nevertheless great fun and some nice DX worked …
Contest Report from DF0FA in JO73CF at 144 MHz
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Contest : DARC-May-Contest 2015
Date : 2015 May 02 to 2015 May 03
Section : 02 - 144 MHz Multi OP
QTH : Mühlenberg Luckow
Co-OPs : DG0ZB;DG1BHA;DH8BQA;DK7YY;DL3BQA;DL5CW;DL9USA
TX : Elecraft K3 + ME2HT-PRO + HLV-1000, 750 W
RX : Elecraft K3 + ME2HT-PRO + MGF 1302
Antenna : 2x8 ele DK7ZB + 4x6 ele G0KSC, 10 mAGL, 90 mASL
Log : Win-Test 4.12.0 (report in TACLog after log conversion)
QSOs : 435
-invalid: 2 Points/valid QSO
-valid : 433 QSO-points (*1) : 163192 377
WWLs : 73 WWL bonus (0) : 0 0
DXCCs : 16 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0
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Total score : 163192 377
ODX : IK8YSW in JN70FP at 1400 km
Worked World Wide Locators:
JN19: 1 JN70: 1 JO11: 1 JO44: 3 JO64: 3 JO82: 2
JN37: 2 JN76: 3 JO20: 2 JO45: 1 JO65: 3 JO83: 1
JN38: 1 JN77: 1 JO21: 4 JO46: 2 JO66: 1 JO84: 2
JN39: 4 JN78: 3 JO22: 1 JO50: 17 JO68: 1 JO90: 5
JN47: 4 JN79: 12 JO30: 9 JO51: 13 JO70: 18 JO91: 2
JN48: 6 JN86: 3 JO31: 25 JO52: 16 JO71: 8 JO92: 1
JN49: 11 JN87: 1 JO32: 5 JO53: 14 JO72: 9 JO94: 1
JN57: 2 JN88: 9 JO33: 6 JO54: 2 JO73: 9 KN08: 1
JN58: 8 JN89: 3 JO40: 6 JO57: 1 JO74: 1 KN09: 1
JN59: 3 JN97: 1 JO41: 10 JO60: 14 JO76: 1 KN18: 1
JN67: 1 JN99: 10 JO42: 18 JO61: 31 JO80: 4 KO02: 1
JN68: 3 JO10: 1 JO43: 24 JO62: 29 JO81: 1 KO11: 2
JN69: 6
Worked DXCCs:
9A : 1 HA : 4 OE : 9 ON : 4 S5 : 3 SP : 35
DL : 292 HB : 3 OK : 48 OZ : 3 SM : 7 UR : 1
F : 2 I : 1 OM : 9 PA : 11
Top 10 QSO-points:
20150503 0507 IK8YSW 59 330 59 051 JN70FP 1400
20150503 0059 TM2F 599 305 599 037 JN19PG 877
20150503 1146 HB9GF 59 415 59 452 JN37WB 821
20150503 1037 UR7DWW 59 401 59 202 KN18EO 769
20150503 0117 S56K 599 308 599 131 JN76KI 766
20150503 0253 9A1CMS 599 319 599 074 JN86DM 761
20150503 0521 ON4KHG 59 335 59 055 JO10XO 761
20150503 1211 HB9W 59 420 59 313 JN47IK 753
20150502 1407 F4FCW 59 009 59 004 JN38FO 748
20150502 1936 HB9EFK 59 218 59 212 JN47PH 745
Remarks:
IK8YSW was worked on a good Meteor burst. Another good reflection
from LZ1V but unfortunately no complete contact. Elsewise average
to bad condx.
Heiko, DG1BHA, made a few Microwave QSOs as well reaching 11 QSOs on 3,4 GHz and another 22 QSOs on 10 GHz. As good as it was to have rather nice weather it also meant that the ugly weather front was too far away to allow any Rainscatter QSOs this time.