DG3FK, DJ0WW, DK1CM, DL3ZAL (left to right)
July Contest 2004
DK Ø TR
in JO4Øql
on 144.351 MHz
What is wrong?? This
year's sporadic E season started really late and there were only a few openings
so far. The summer also missed it's startpoint. It was more like a March Contest:
Cold around 10°C and rain nearly all the time. We just arrived at the
location around 7 o'clock on saturday morning and it started to rain. After
waiting for two hours inside the car we decided not to put up the big antenna
(8*6ele). What else could we do?? Only use one antenna? What stuff
do we have with us to get another small antenna system up? As we have a Flamex-Pull
tower with a hight of 10m mounted in the van, that is the alternative. As
Antenna we just took half of the big one: 4*6ele DJ9BV. It took a long time
to get the antennas set up because we were looking for wholes in the sky
without rain. So finally we had two similar systems of 4*6ele each at 12
o'clock local time running. Excellent we could start to "clean up" our frequency!
Conditions seemed to be really bad. Nothing more than local stations and
the frequency was clear till 14 UTC. It started quite well in the first 20
minutes but QRM was getting heavier soon. One of the big contest stations
from OK located in JO60 was just 1.5 kHz up. Why? I think it is most important
to check frequency and we were on the air on the QRG for more than three hours....
No chance for us to reach the 100 QSOs in the first hour. It looked
not too well till 22:26UTC when F6FZS/p IN93 called. Wow 1100km via tropo!
But no one else from this direction till the late morning two EAs called.
The QSO rates were quite usual but the average distance was quite good. Our
alternative setup seemed to work quite well. In the end we had 983 valid
QSOs.
After the contest we compared the two systems with 4*6ele each. They were
nearly the same while observing beacons. During the last contests we could
observe higher signal levels with the 8*6ele. We have to discuss if we will
get the big one up again.
Conditions were not only up to EA but also to G. As stations in our neighbourhood
reported they worked IO80. Nothing from our location with bad take off to
the west but more Gs than usual. Also worked a lot of OKs. Good activity this
time also from OZ, but we missed some Italiens.
Over all a nice result but really bad weather! Just when we started to put
down the antenna it started raining again. So the picture of the team had
to be taken below a tree. Another problem during the night was the breakdown
of the rotator of the antenna on the van. We could not fix it but we were
glad that it is possible to turn the whole tower.
Next event will we September because of a lack of operators in August. Hope
we get enough people operating than.
Impressions:
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| our setup during a moment of no rain: 4*6ele + 6*6ele |
the compromize: second antenna only 4*6ele on the van. |
our rig this time: TR-144, HLV-300 as driver and CE1800 as
final |
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| Glyn, DJ0WW, (forground) and Tom, DG3FK, on sunday morning |
the team in July while it is raining: DG3FK, DJ0WW, DK1CM, DL3ZAL (left to right) |
clouds passing by with the antennas in forground. |
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 : DARC VHF Wettbewerb
Date : 2004 Jul 03 to 2004 Jul 04
Section : Single
QTH : Freiensteinau
: 60km NE Frankfurt/Main
Co-OPs : DG3FK;DH3FAW;DJ0WW;DK1CM;DL3ZAL
TX : TS-850 + Transverter, 600 W
RX : TS-850 + Transverter 1dB NF
Antenna : 4*6 + 4*6 elements DJ9BV, 10 mAGL, 500 mASL
Log : N1MMLogger 4.0.61, http://www.n1mm.com
QSOs : 983
-invalid: 2 Points/valid QSO
-valid : 981 QSO-points (*1) : 317394 324
WWLs : 102 WWL bonus (0) : 0 0
DXCCs : 18 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0
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Total score : 317394 324
ODX : EA2BFM/P in IN83FE at 1271 km
Worked World Wide Locators:
IN83: 1 JN28: 6 JN58: 21 JN88: 14 JO33: 6 JO61: 34
IN93: 3 JN29: 2 JN59: 22 JN89: 17 JO40: 35 JO62: 27
IN99: 1 JN34: 2 JN63: 1 JN97: 3 JO41: 24 JO63: 1
IO90: 1 JN35: 1 JN65: 3 JN98: 5 JO42: 20 JO64: 3
IO91: 3 JN36: 8 JN66: 3 JN99: 12 JO43: 17 JO65: 5
JN07: 1 JN37: 20 JN67: 1 JO00: 2 JO44: 8 JO70: 23
JN08: 4 JN38: 11 JN68: 11 JO01: 5 JO45: 2 JO71: 11
JN09: 2 JN39: 19 JN69: 25 JO02: 2 JO46: 1 JO72: 7
JN14: 1 JN44: 1 JN74: 1 JO10: 12 JO50: 59 JO73: 6
JN15: 1 JN45: 5 JN75: 3 JO11: 6 JO51: 34 JO80: 12
JN16: 1 JN46: 2 JN76: 6 JO20: 11 JO52: 13 JO81: 4
JN17: 1 JN47: 15 JN77: 2 JO21: 18 JO53: 11 JO83: 1
JN18: 11 JN48: 37 JN78: 3 JO22: 9 JO54: 4 JO90: 2
JN19: 5 JN49: 34 JN79: 26 JO23: 2 JO55: 6 JO91: 1
JN25: 5 JN54: 3 JN85: 2 JO30: 24 JO56: 1 JO92: 2
JN26: 4 JN56: 2 JN86: 3 JO31: 62 JO57: 1 JO94: 1
JN27: 3 JN57: 3 JN87: 2 JO32: 15 JO60: 25 KN08: 1
Worked DXCCs:
9A : 4 F : 68 HB : 32 OE : 9 ON : 24 S5 : 11
DL : 576 G : 13 HB0 : 2 OK : 124 OZ : 14 SM : 3
EA : 2 HA : 6 I : 17 OM : 18 PA : 37 SP : 21
Top 10 QSO-points:
20040704 0933 EA2BFM/P 59 832 59 163 IN83FE 1271
20040704 0800 EA2CN/P 59 764 59 088 IN93GF 1151
20040703 2225 F6FZS/P 55 508 55 103 IN93OA 1133
20040704 0756 F4BWJ 59 761 59 074 IN93MP 1090
20040704 1142 HA6W 579 909 59 396 KN08FB 847
20040704 0146 IK5ZWU/6 559 608 599 323 JN63GN 806
20040703 1857 F1USF/P 59 338 57 131 JN14VM 784
20040704 1109 9A2U 55 887 59 451 JN85EG 780
20040703 2021 OZ5GX 59 405 54 072 JO57FJ 773
20040704 0546 9A1B 55 686 59 241 JN85OV 772
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Oliver Prinz, DK1CM
