Took part in the VHF September contest a.k.a. the IARU VHF contest last weekend as a small team from the club station again. Equipment played well, lucky with the weather (just some drizzle Saturday evening) and good company, what else is needed? 😉
Condx were quite okay and I had the impression that participation was quite good, too, at least on Saturday. Amazing to get number 807 from DA0FF at 02z Sunday morning already with still 12 hours to go, i.e. at half-time! Wonder how many QSOs they did in total …
YT4B and IQ5NN with 1.080 km are meanwhile almost regulars although the Italians really struggled this time to pull our signal out of the noise even when they were a solid 529 over here … seems our QRO plus 10 ele Yagi are not yet enough? 😐
Signal of IQ5NN, well over 1.000 km away:
Great to catch IQ4FD for a third one over the “magic” 1.000 km distance. 😎 A pity we didn’t catch YU7ACO this time (another one > 1.000 km). Never found them on the band and they didn’t react in the ON4KST chat, would usually have been another save QSO. 🙁 But we worked YU7C as an all time new one instead with a great distance, too. Ukrainian UR7D was extremely loud! Did they do some power upgrade? 😀 Heard them quite often even beaming far away from direct path …
UR7D – “only” 773 km away but very loud:
SN7L was wide as hell again (like during July VHF contest), not good. 🙁 Heard a few more different wide signals, too, but none of them as bad as SN7L.
All in all we are satisfied. Our claimed result is exactly the same as last year, amazing! 😎 But we made 9 QSOs less so the kilometers per QSO average is a bit higher this year. 😉
Contest Report from DF0TEC in JO73CE at 144 MHz
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Contest : IARU-VHF-Contest '19
Date : 2019 Sep 07 to 2019 Sep 08
Section : 02 144 MHz Multi-OP
QTH : Woltersdorf
Co-OPs : DG1BHA;DH8BQA;DL3BQA;DM5DX
TX : IC-9700 + PA, 750 W
RX : IC-9700 + MGF1302
Antenna : 10 ele DK7ZB Yagi, 20 mAGL, 70 mASL
Log : TACLog by OZ2M, 1,995, http://www.qsl.net/oz2m
QSOs : 442
-invalid: 1 Points/QSO
-valid : 441 QSO-points (*1) : 183430 416
WWLs : 93 WWL bonus (0) : 0 0
DXCCs : 22 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0
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Total score : 183430 416
ODX : YT4B in JN94SD at 1079 km
Worked World Wide Locators:
JN29: 1 JN76: 5 JO11: 1 JO54: 1 JO72: 8 JP70: 1
JN38: 2 JN77: 3 JO20: 2 JO55: 2 JO73: 10 JP90: 1
JN39: 5 JN78: 3 JO21: 2 JO57: 1 JO75: 1 KN06: 1
JN47: 3 JN79: 17 JO30: 7 JO58: 1 JO76: 1 KN08: 1
JN48: 7 JN85: 1 JO31: 20 JO59: 1 JO77: 1 KN09: 5
JN49: 9 JN86: 4 JO32: 5 JO60: 12 JO79: 2 KN18: 1
JN56: 1 JN87: 5 JO33: 2 JO61: 24 JO80: 6 KO02: 3
JN57: 1 JN88: 8 JO40: 5 JO62: 24 JO81: 4 KO04: 1
JN58: 4 JN89: 12 JO41: 9 JO63: 2 JO83: 2 KO05: 1
JN59: 1 JN94: 1 JO42: 11 JO64: 3 JO84: 2 KO13: 1
JN63: 2 JN95: 5 JO43: 8 JO65: 4 JO89: 1 KO14: 1
JN65: 1 JN97: 2 JO46: 1 JO67: 2 JO90: 7 KO15: 1
JN67: 1 JN98: 3 JO50: 18 JO68: 1 JO91: 1 KO20: 1
JN68: 3 JN99: 13 JO51: 15 JO70: 18 JO93: 1 KO24: 1
JN69: 8 JO01: 1 JO52: 11 JO71: 13 JO94: 6 KO25: 3
JN75: 2 JO10: 1 JO53: 4
Worked DXCCs:
9A : 7 G : 1 LA : 1 OM : 15 S5 : 8 UA2: 1
DL : 216 HA : 9 LY : 7 ON : 3 SM : 16 UR : 2
EU : 1 HB : 2 OE : 11 OZ : 5 SP : 53 YU : 2
F : 5 I : 3 OK : 68 PA : 5
Top 10 QSO-points:
20190908 0139 YT4B 559 263 599 224 JN94SD 1079
20190908 0252 IQ5NN 599 273 599 472 JN63GN 1078
20190908 0259 IQ4FD 559 274 599 230 JN63AX 1037
20190908 0341 9A0V 599 279 599 293 JN95PE 963
20190908 0225 9A8D 519 268 599 187 JN95LM 919
20190908 0327 9A7D 599 277 599 195 JN95CI 918
20190908 1336 YU7C 559 437 599 310 JN95SS 910
20190908 0318 G8P 599 276 599 541 JO01QD 903
20190907 2159 9A6K 59 213 59 190 JN95GO 900
20190907 2153 9A1N 59 210 59 269 JN85LI 894