Summer is the time for relaxing. At the beginning of August we enjoy DXing during the Alpe Adria Contest. As a station far north to the main contest region our main interest is DXing. On the same weekend there is also a contest in France, so even more chances to catch any DX. On Saturday I could copy stations from the atlantic cost (IN96, etc) at my home location. Thought condition would fine the next day. But before we got QRV we had to do some antenna work. We changed the coaxial cable of the permanently installed antenna (4x6ele). After the years we wanted to be sure not to run into problems with it. You can see the pictures of the crane while we were working below. On Sunday we were ready in time. Mostly tuning and picking the interesting stations out of the noise. From time to time we also called CQ but as usually many Germans returning so the average distance per QSO felt. At temeratures of 35° C it was the hottest contest we ever did. Conditions were quite normal, no exciting new stations were heard.
We enjoyed the time with ham radio and barbeque without any stress...
Now looking forward to the IARU Region 1 contest in September!  See you.
 
 
 
 
 

Impressions:

	repairing the 4 x 6ele DJ9BV

Those are the squares we reached:
 

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TACLOG -reportfile - 2m

Contest Report from DK0TR in JO40QL at 144 MHz
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Contest : Alpe Adria Contest 2003
Date    : 2003 Aug 03
Section : Multi
QTH     : Freiensteinau
        : 60km NE of Frankfurt/Main


Co-OPs  : DJ8OG;DK1CM

TX      : TS-850 + Transverter, 500 W
RX      : TS-850 + Transverter 1dB NF
Antenna : 4 x 6ele DJ9BV, 15 mAGL, 500 mASL
Log     : TACLog by OZ2M, 1,995, http://www.qsl.net/oz2m

QSOs    :  106
-invalid:    1                                       Points/valid QSO
-valid  :  105     QSO-points (*1)    :     43849                 418
WWLs    :   59     WWL bonus (0)      :         0                   0
DXCCs   :   13     DXCC bonus (0)     :         0                   0
                   ------------------------------              ------
                   Total score        :     43849                 418

ODX     : IK5ZWU/6 in JN63GN at 806 km

Worked World Wide Locators:
JN09:   1   JN46:   1   JN65:   3   JN79:   2   JO22:   1   JO52:   2   
JN17:   1   JN47:   3   JN66:   1   JN86:   3   JO23:   1   JO53:   1   
JN25:   1   JN48:   2   JN67:   2   JN87:   1   JO31:   2   JO61:   4   
JN34:   1   JN49:   3   JN68:   1   JN88:   2   JO32:   1   JO62:   1   
JN35:   1   JN54:   3   JN69:   5   JN89:   1   JO40:   3   JO63:   1   
JN36:   3   JN56:   1   JN74:   1   JN97:   1   JO41:   1   JO70:   1   
JN37:   1   JN57:   4   JN75:   4   JN98:   1   JO42:   2   JO71:   1   
JN39:   1   JN58:   2   JN76:   2   JO00:   1   JO43:   2   JO74:   1   
JN44:   2   JN59:   3   JN77:   2   JO10:   1   JO50:   2   JO80:   2   
JN45:   2   JN63:   2   JN78:   1   JO21:   1   JO51:   2   

Worked DXCCs:
9A  :   5   HA  :   3   HB0 :   1   OE  :   9   OM  :   1   PA  :   4   
DL  :  39   HB  :   6   I   :  15   OK  :  11   ON  :   1   S5  :   5   
F   :   5   

Top 10 QSO-points:
20030803 0722 IK5ZWU/6       59   010 59   037        JN63GN      806 
20030803 1100 HA5KDQ         55   079 59   205        JN97LN      770 
20030803 1203 I4XCC          599  093 599  094        JN63GV      770 
20030803 0834 9A0R           599  022 59   013        JN74LT      756 
20030803 0854 I4JED/4        59   026 55   043        JN54PD      719 
20030803 0734 9A2L           59   011 59   044        JN86HF      714 
20030803 1110 9A1C           55   080 59   128        JN75RM      713 
20030803 1221 IQ4AX/4        55   096 59   166        JN54LE      710 
20030803 0929 9A3JH          59   029 59   015        JN75AD      688 
20030803 1009 S52W           59   046 59   116        JN75NP      687 


73

Oliver Prinz, DK1CM