Well, not very satisfied! Reason is I completely overslept Sunday morning! Seems I either didn’t hear the alarm clock (had even set 2 different times to be safe!) or set it wrong, not sure. Just wanted to take a break of 3 hours but woke up only 6,5 hours later! Oh boy, this could easily have been a 200k points contest if it wasn’t for that stupidity. Certainly missed some 50+ QSOs and 20k+ points which would have brought me above the “magic” 200k points mark easily. 🙁
Despite that condx were not too good, lots of QSB due to the bad weather all over Europe. Working the DX was struggling but still caught most of the regulars. Total result is also better than last year, think it might even be the second best July result ever from this location, will check that later.
At least I got up just in time for the short 2 m ES opening! While SP1’s just 40 km north of me worked into UA4 it was NIL overhere. 🙁 But that’s the nature of Sporadic-E, I even experienced openings in the past were there were stations 5 km away to be worked and nil here and then vice versa a few minutes later. After all that’s what’s fascinating about ES openings, too, isn’t it? 😉 Let’s see what this so far very good (although I missed a number of openings due to QRL) ES season will bring during the next few days/weeks.
Fidel, EA1HRR, reported hearing me for 30 seconds on a really good MS burst but couldn’t make it through the DL pile-up with his QRP setup, pity! Normally July is good for 1-2 MS (enhanced) QSOs, too, but not lucky this time (you know all has to fit perfectly then) …
Contest Report from DH8BQA in JO73CE at 144 MHz
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Contest : DARC-JULY-CONTEST 2017
Date : 2017 Jul 01 - 02
Section : 01 144MHz Single OP
QTH : Woltersdorf
TX : IC-7400 + PA, 750 W
RX : IC-7400 + MGF1302
Antenna : 10 ele DK7ZB Yagi, 20 mAGL, 70 mASL
Log : TACLog by OZ2M, 1,995, http://www.qsl.net/oz2m
QSOs : 437
-invalid: 0 points/QSO
-valid : 437 QSO-points (*1) : 184844 423
WWLs : 86 WWL bonus (0) : 0 0
DXCCs : 20 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0
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Total score : 184844 423
ODX : 9A4V in JN95KI at 935 km
Worked World Wide Locators:
JN37: 2 JN78: 4 JO20: 1 JO47: 1 JO68: 1 KN08: 1
JN38: 2 JN79: 18 JO21: 1 JO50: 19 JO70: 24 KN09: 3
JN39: 6 JN85: 1 JO22: 2 JO51: 16 JO71: 11 KN18: 2
JN47: 5 JN86: 3 JO30: 4 JO52: 13 JO72: 4 KO00: 1
JN48: 14 JN87: 3 JO31: 13 JO53: 4 JO73: 9 KO02: 2
JN49: 10 JN88: 12 JO32: 3 JO54: 1 JO80: 7 KO10: 1
JN57: 2 JN89: 11 JO33: 2 JO55: 1 JO81: 2 KO12: 1
JN58: 5 JN95: 4 JO40: 8 JO59: 1 JO82: 2 KO13: 2
JN59: 5 JN96: 1 JO41: 10 JO60: 17 JO83: 2 KO14: 2
JN67: 1 JN97: 2 JO42: 9 JO61: 18 JO90: 4 KO15: 3
JN68: 6 JN98: 4 JO43: 7 JO62: 14 JO91: 1 KO22: 1
JN69: 9 JN99: 14 JO44: 3 JO63: 1 JO92: 1 KO24: 1
JN75: 1 JO02: 1 JO45: 1 JO64: 5 JO94: 4 KO25: 2
JN76: 4 JO10: 1 JO46: 1 JO65: 8 JO96: 2 KO33: 1
JN77: 4 JO11: 1
Worked DXCCs:
9A : 5 G : 1 LY : 8 OM : 16 PA : 7 SP : 30
DL : 227 HA : 7 OE : 14 ON : 2 S5 : 7 UA2 : 1
EU : 4 HB : 4 OK : 83 OZ : 9 SM : 7 UR : 2
F : 2 LA : 1
Top 10 QSO-points:
20170702 0007 9A4V 559 264 599 203 JN95KI 935
20170702 0005 9A8D 559 263 599 213 JN95LM 919
20170701 2353 9A7D 51 261 59 171 JN95CI 918
20170702 0754 EV4R 51 273 59 030 KO33VI 903
20170701 2355 9A1CRS 51 262 59 249 JN95IT 882
20170702 0913 G4SWX 559 317 559 003 JO02RF 865
20170701 2311 9A9R 559 252 599 220 JN85OQ 862
20170702 1032 HG3X 59 338 59 197 JN96EE 834
20170701 2249 S59DEM 59 246 59 426 JN75DS 825
20170701 1542 HB9KAB 57 081 59 070 JN37WA 821