It’s been a while since I participated more seriously in the only 4 hour long NAC (Nordic Activity Contest) and LYAC (Lithuanian Activity Contest) evenings which take place regularly every Tuesday and Thursday on different bands. Tonight was the first Tuesday of the month thus the 2 m slot. Had a lot of fun calling CQ myself for a tad over 2 hours resulting in the first 100 QSOs and then concentrating on working even longer distances afterwards. 😉
Condx were not good, there was a lot of QSB on the signals especially direction north and east (west was quite okay). Can’t remember that I ever struggled to copy Alex, UA2FT, with his 50 watts and 9 elements even on CW on the short 450 km path. Think it’s also been the first time that I could not work my good old friend Vidas, LY2SA, quite a pity. Only wish that just half of all the active Scandinavian stations would also participate in the regular 24 hour VHF contests! Boy, that would be fun for us up north … 😉
Contest Report from DH8BQA in JO73CE at 144 MHz
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Contest : NAC/LYAC June '15
Date : 2015 Jun 02
Section : Open Class
QTH : Woltersdorf
TX : IC-7400, 700 W
RX : IC-7400, MGF1302
Antenna : 10 ele DK7ZB, 20 mAGL, 70 mASL
Log : TACLog by OZ2M, 1,995, http://www.qsl.net/oz2m
QSOs : 123
-invalid: 1 points/QSO
-valid : 122 QSO-points (*1) : 52089 427
WWLs : 53 WWL bonus (500) : 26500 217
DXCCs : 12 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0
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Total score : 78589 644
ODX : SK0EN in JO99JX at 806 km
Worked World Wide Locators:
JN38: 1 JO40: 1 JO55: 4 JO65: 10 JO75: 3 JO93: 1
JN48: 2 JO41: 1 JO56: 1 JO66: 1 JO76: 1 JO96: 1
JN49: 2 JO42: 7 JO57: 3 JO67: 3 JO78: 1 JO99: 2
JO10: 1 JO43: 2 JO58: 2 JO68: 2 JO81: 1 JP80: 1
JO21: 1 JO44: 2 JO59: 5 JO69: 1 JO83: 1 KO04: 2
JO22: 1 JO45: 1 JO60: 2 JO70: 3 JO84: 1 KO15: 3
JO30: 2 JO46: 3 JO61: 2 JO71: 2 JO86: 3 KO16: 1
JO31: 9 JO47: 1 JO62: 4 JO73: 5 JO88: 1 KO24: 1
JO32: 5 JO50: 3 JO64: 1 JO74: 1 JO89: 1
Worked DXCCs:
DL : 43 LA : 5 OK : 1 OZ : 18 SM : 29 UA2: 2
F : 1 LY : 4 ON : 1 PA : 6 SP : 11 YL : 1
Top 10 QSO-points:
20150602 2226 SK0EN 529 559 JO99JX 806
20150602 2221 SM4BDQ 529 559 JP80FG 800
20150602 2047 LA0BY 51 55 JO59IX 785
20150602 1934 ON4KHG 55 55 JO10XO 759
20150602 2223 SK0CT 539 539 JO99BM 745
20150602 2120 SM5KWU 55 55 JO89IP 735
20150602 1909 LA2Z 59 56 JO59EJ 730
20150602 2156 YL2AJ 559 559 KO16OX 711
20150602 2051 LA1T 55 55 JO59FE 707
20150602 2054 LA3S 41 55 JO59CC 703