Another July contest in the books. Condx were rather average most of the time. The night hours brought some nice DX so the average per QSO was 420 km which is unusually high. Around 400 km/QSO is quite normal for a July contest from up here but again as last year I missed lots of OK/OM stations that normally help to higher the QSO average so it was rather unexpected. On the other hand there were some really great tropo DX contacts to the west with good signals …
F8KGU – 923 km:
G5LK/P – 903 km:
G4ZAP/P – 886 km:
Not that nice was the signal quality of some of the participants. The worst example was probably SN7L who was up to 40 kHz wide even with antennas pointing into different directions. 🙁
SN7L on 144.170 MHz using a big part of the spectrum alone due to his bad wide signal. 🙁 And this was over a 285 km (!!!) path not even beaming at him! Won’t imagine how bad it must have been for stations nearby … 🙁
Our new IC-9700 played quite well. I was really sastified with it’s perfomance. Of course the bandscope was/is a big plus as already experienced with the 7300 on other bands, too. If you search the band you stop at signals shown on the bandscope although there’s no signal currently audible as the station that was transmitting there was just listening himself, i.e. for a QSO exchange or the like. In former times you would have simply tuned further and probably missed that station. 😎
But of course the best radio can’t help overall activity which I found lacking again. Total result is on par with last year but that was not a good one either. Seems it will only be place 3 this year as besides Tom, DR1H, who can’t be beaten from up here, also Michael, DL6IAK/P, put in a very good result with over 200k points unchecked …
Contest Report from DH8BQA in JO73CE at 144 MHz
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Contest : DARC JULY '19
Date : 2019 Jul 06 to 2019 Jul 07
Section : 01 144MHz Single OP
QTH : Woltersdorf
TX : IC-9700 + PA, 750 W
RX : IC-9700 + ATF 54143
Antenna : 10 ele DK7ZB Yagi, 20 mAGL, 70 mASL
Log : TACLog by OZ2M, 1,995, http://www.qsl.net/oz2m
QSOs : 346
-invalid: 0 Points/QSO
-valid : 346 QSO-points (*1) : 145003 419
WWLs : 79 WWL bonus (0) : 0 0
DXCCs : 21 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0
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Total score : 145003 419
ODX : YT4B in JN94SD at 1079 km
Worked World Wide Locators:
JN19: 1 JN78: 2 JO01: 2 JO43: 10 JO64: 5 JO91: 1
JN37: 1 JN79: 17 JO02: 4 JO44: 2 JO65: 3 JO94: 1
JN38: 1 JN85: 2 JO11: 1 JO46: 1 JO67: 2 JP90: 1
JN39: 3 JN86: 3 JO20: 4 JO50: 9 JO70: 12 KN05: 1
JN47: 2 JN87: 2 JO21: 2 JO51: 14 JO71: 10 KN08: 1
JN48: 7 JN88: 7 JO22: 1 JO52: 7 JO72: 6 KN09: 2
JN49: 7 JN89: 10 JO30: 7 JO53: 6 JO73: 3 KN18: 1
JN58: 4 JN94: 1 JO31: 13 JO55: 1 JO74: 1 KO04: 2
JN59: 5 JN95: 2 JO32: 2 JO59: 1 JO77: 1 KO05: 1
JN68: 5 JN96: 1 JO33: 2 JO60: 11 JO80: 10 KO13: 1
JN69: 5 JN97: 4 JO40: 3 JO61: 12 JO82: 1 KO14: 1
JN75: 1 JN98: 4 JO41: 8 JO62: 22 JO83: 2 KO15: 2
JN76: 2 JN99: 11 JO42: 12 JO63: 1 JO90: 2 KO25: 3
JN77: 2
Worked DXCCs:
9A : 4 G : 6 LY : 6 ON : 3 S5 : 5 UA2: 4
DL : 183 HA : 8 OE : 6 OZ : 3 SM : 7 UR : 1
EU : 1 HB : 2 OK : 63 PA : 8 SP : 12 YU : 2
F : 3 LA : 1 OM : 18
Top 20 QSO-points:
20190707 0745 YT4B 559 262 599 280 JN94SD 1079
20190707 0507 YU7ACO 559 231 559 295 KN05RD 1037
20190706 2304 9A0V 559 212 599 251 JN95PE 963
20190707 0005 G3PYE/P 559 219 559 141 JO02CE 949
20190706 2104 F8KGU 59 188 59 342 JN19BQ 923
20190706 2258 9A8D 55 211 59 155 JN95LM 919
20190706 2158 G5LK/P 55 203 56 337 JO01QD 903
20190706 2316 9A1N 559 213 599 194 JN85LI 894
20190706 2051 G3XDY 559 183 599 038 JO02OB 886
20190706 2155 G4ZAP/P 59 202 57 329 JO01PU 886
20190707 0843 G4SWX 529 278 529 002 JO02RF 865
20190707 1100 9A1E 559 314 599 280 JN85QT 852
20190706 2336 G4CDN 579 217 589 011 JO02SS 849
20190706 1750 HG3X 59 123 59 083 JN96EE 834
20190706 2253 S59DEM 59 210 59 380 JN75DS 825
20190706 1908 HB9EWY 59 151 59 179 JN37WA 821
20190706 2011 SF40RO 529 179 559 001 JP90JA 810
20190707 0015 HB9GF 59 220 59 270 JN47BC 803
20190707 0439 LA0BY 419 225 519 002 JO59IX 785
20190706 2224 UZ3I 599 207 599 197 KN18JT 773