Trying to escape the Cologne carnival activities 😉 the VHF contest this weekend was a welcome opportunity to drive the 700 km to our JO73 QTH once more and meet with our local guys Heiko, DG1BHA, Uwe, DL3BQA, and Peter, DM5DX, to take part in this one as a multi-op entry.
Conditions were rather bad, can’t remember when we last had so few DX-QSOs in the log. Normally the Top 10 contacts are well above 800 km, sometimes even the Top 20. Not so this time. The QSO with 9A8D took almost 10 minutes to complete and needed lots of patience and repeats and waiting for the signals to rise out of the noise again to copy the next bit of information …
Nevertheless fun was had by all and our impression was activity was a little higher than usual, can’t remember ever doing more than 400 QSOs in March, at least not from the club QTH. But would have to check back through old results to be sure. 😉
Contest Report from DF0TEC in JO73CE at 144 MHz
===============================================
Contest : DARC-March-Contest 2019
Date : 2019 Mar 02 to 2019 Mar 03
Section : 02 144MHz Multi OP
QTH : Woltersdorf
Co-OPs : DG1BHA;DH8BQA;DL3BQA;DM5DX
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 : 413
-invalid: 1 Points/QSO
-valid : 412 QSO-points (*1) : 155035 376
WWLs : 66 WWL bonus (0) : 0 0
DXCCs : 15 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0
--------------------------- ------
Total score : 155035 376
ODX : 9A8D in JN95LM at 919 km
Worked World Wide Locators:
JN37: 1 JN78: 4 JO20: 2 JO44: 3 JO62: 26 JO80: 5
JN39: 4 JN79: 8 JO21: 2 JO46: 2 JO63: 5 JO82: 3
JN47: 3 JN86: 2 JO22: 1 JO50: 14 JO64: 2 JO83: 1
JN48: 3 JN87: 1 JO30: 9 JO51: 15 JO65: 6 JO84: 1
JN49: 16 JN88: 6 JO31: 21 JO52: 22 JO67: 1 JO90: 7
JN57: 2 JN89: 13 JO32: 3 JO53: 9 JO68: 1 JO91: 1
JN58: 9 JN95: 1 JO33: 1 JO54: 4 JO70: 16 JO94: 1
JN59: 9 JN97: 3 JO40: 6 JO55: 2 JO71: 17 KN08: 1
JN68: 8 JN98: 5 JO41: 7 JO57: 1 JO72: 7 KN09: 1
JN69: 6 JN99: 8 JO42: 22 JO60: 13 JO73: 4 KO02: 1
JN77: 2 JO10: 1 JO43: 10 JO61: 19 JO77: 1 KO04: 1
Worked DXCCs:
9A : 1 HA : 5 OK : 54 OZ : 7 S5 : 1 SP : 26
DL : 281 HB : 3 OM : 11 PA : 5 SM : 7 UA2: 1
F : 1 OE : 6 ON : 3
Top 10 QSO-points:
20190303 1034 9A8D 559 343 599 164 JN95LM 919
20190302 1405 HB9GF 59 003 59 006 JN37WB 817
20190302 2215 HB9RF 59 244 59 191 JN47FB 795
20190303 0923 ON4KHG 59 324 59 059 JO10XO 759
20190303 1242 ON4IQ 51 390 55 010 JO20AR 748
20190302 2142 S59P 59 232 59 224 JN86AO 744
20190302 1536 HG1Z 59 078 59 075 JN86KU 730
20190302 2211 HA5OO 59 243 59 104 JN97OM 723
20190302 1933 HA6W 59 196 59 183 KN08FB 720
20190303 1326 HB9CXK 59 409 59 082 JN47PM 720