Nearly whole Europe plays contest on the first weekend of August. Traditionally we have fun beeing on the hill and playing around with our rigs with no contest stress and very little QRM. Because of the contests in the countries around us there are some DX-stations active. On saturday we installed a four bay array of 11 element yagis on the van to have a high gain array with a small beamwidth. It should be a test for the comming September-contest because we had lots of trouble with QRM of others in the past three contests. It was up really fast. Our experience was a very sharp beamwidth and nearly the same gain as our 4 x 6 element. It should have 3dB more! But it was some meters lower, maybe that is the reason. Hope we are successful with it in September. Conditions during the whole weekend were not really exciting. The contest in France gave us some rare squares into the log but nothing new. On sunday we took part in the Alpi-Adria-Contest. Most of the time only looking for DX-stations, so we made quite a high average QRB. During the afternoon we recogized a spot on the cluster form JO50 to JN71. Searching the band but nothing here. Later we copied I2ADN/7, but no QSO. In QSO with DH9NFM (in JO50rf) we could copy a station from JN71su with 55 but it was the QRG of DH9NFM. Calling CQ in this direction had no success. After calling CQ we scanned the band at 15:30UTC again. But no siganls anymore, only I2FAK still calling "CQ contest". Asking him how long the contest last: 17UTC. A few minutes later we met S53CAB from the S50C crew. He told us the contest was over at 15UTC. A bit confusing.  As I remembered from the past years it stopped at 17UTC. Maybe a new rule....
After a nice weekend with lots of sunshine, beer and chatting we arrived well back home. We look confidently forward to the next high light: IARU region 1 contest in September.
 
 

Impressions:

DK7CM & DL3ZAL while installing the antenna	4 x 11 element DL6WU style antennas	a view to the west
an other view at the antennas	the place at night	a view to the east - at the horizon JO40XL
50MHz has to be with us for sporadic abservation the 2m antenna is just another reference	on the left mast: 4x6ele DJ9BVs @15m on the right mast: 4x11ele DL6WU @10m
the most important thing to do....	searching for DX:  Eugen (DL3ZAL) & Wolf (DL4FCS)	a view from the north to our location

Those are the squares we reached:
 

2m

TACLOG -reportfile - 2m

Contest Report from DK0TR in JO40QL at 144 MHz
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Contest : Alpen-Adria-Contest
Date    : 2002 Aug 04
Section : Multi
QTH     : Freieinsteinau
        : 60km NE Frankfurt/Main

Co-OPs  : DG3FK;DJ0WW;DK1CM;DK7CM;DL3ZAL;DL4FCS;DL6ZBN

TX      : TS-850 + Transverter, 600 W
RX      : TS-850 + Transverter 1dB NF
Antenna : 4*6 elements DJ9BV, 10 mAGL, 500 mASL
Log     : TACLog by OZ2M, 1,994, http://www.qsl.net/oz2m

QSOs    :  112
-invalid:    0                                       Points/valid QSO
-valid  :  112     QSO-points (*1)    :     44775                 400
WWLs    :   43     WWL bonus (0)      :         0                   0
DXCCs   :   11     DXCC bonus (0)     :         0                   0
                   ------------------------------              ------
                   Total score        :     44775                 400

ODX     : F5SJP/P in JN14SC at 834 km

Worked World Wide Locators:
JN09:   1   JN44:   2   JN57:   4   JN69:   8   JN88:   1   JO42:   2   
JN14:   1   JN45:   1   JN58:   3   JN75:   1   JN89:   2   JO43:   1   
JN18:   1   JN47:   3   JN59:   4   JN76:   3   JN97:   2   JO44:   1   
JN25:   1   JN48:   4   JN63:   4   JN77:   2   JN99:   2   JO50:   5   
JN28:   1   JN49:   5   JN65:   3   JN78:   1   JO31:   2   JO60:   3   
JN34:   1   JN54:   3   JN67:   2   JN85:   3   JO40:   8   JO65:   1   
JN38:   2   JN56:   1   JN68:   3   JN86:   7   JO41:   1   JO70:   5   
JN39:   1   

Worked DXCCs:
9A  :   4   F   :   8   HB  :   2   OE  :   7   S5  :  10   T7  :   1   
DL  :  43   HA  :   3   I   :  13   OK  :  20   SM  :   1   

Top 10 QSO-points:
20020804 0749 F5SJP/P        55   016 55   324        JN14SC      834 
20020804 0711 IZ6BTN/6       55   003 59   017        JN63IK      823 
20020804 0806 HA6KVC/P       55   019 59   145        JN97WV      815 
20020804 0709 I5PVA/6        55   002 59   017        JN63GN      806 
20020804 0837 9A5Y           55   028 59   099        JN85PO      800 
20020804 0836 9A3XM          59   027 59   097        JN85EG      780 
20020804 0725 HA5KDQ         59   007 59   043        JN97LN      770 
20020804 1012 I4XCC          559  046 599  079        JN63GV      770 
20020804 1346 S52W           539  103 599  150        JN85NW      765 
20020804 1036 T7/IW3RUA/P    57   053 59   084        JN63FW      764 


73
Oliver Prinz, DK1CM