DK1CM, DL3ZAL, DJ8OG, DL2KP, DK7CM, DL4FCS, DJ0WW (left to right)
May Contest 2004
DK Ø TR
in JO4Øql
on 144.355 MHz
Contestweekend meens
rain looking back the last year. We are just not lucky anymore. We were glad
that we started on friday afternoon with the antenna work. On Saturday it
was raining the whole day. The best you could do is stay inside.... Everything
was running aroud 11am. on saturday. The setup was the same as during last
years contests. Antennas were a group of 8 times 6 element yagis and a second
group of 4 times 6 element yagis. The transceiver is a Kenwood TS-850 with
the transverter by DB6NT (TR144h). As amplifier we are running a Beko HLV-1200
with about 600 watts at the antenna. The logging tool was once again the N1MM-logger.
This time we had a 2.4 GHz-link to the tent with a multi-user setup of the
N1MM-logger to see in realtime what the OPs were doing. Beside that we had
access to the packet network.
The start was excellent! More than hundert QSOs during the first hour! But
our compeditors were as good as we were or even better. Only a few QSOs difference
between DF0OL (JO40bp), DK0BN (JN39vx), DL0GTH (JO50jp) and us. Next
time we checked around 20UTC. All four of us were still quite close together!
The next morning it looked a lot different. Around 6 UTC DF0OL and DL0GTH
were below 700 QSOs and DK0BN had about six QSOs less than DK0TR but nearly
50 more than DL0GTH. During the next hours it was a fight for every
contact! Around 8 UTC DK0BN had a little pile up, but we called with little
response. Three hours before the end DK0BN had nearly 10 contacts more than
DK0TR. It is not lost yet! We ended up with 1017, four more than DK0BN. That
was really hard. As our average score is usually significant lower that the
one of DK0BN they have won this time, I believe! Let's wait for the final
results.
Now you know why we like it every time again even if the weather is bad.
To fight with a compeditor with so much ham spirit as the team of DK0BN is
really fun. But there are so many others who do not care and produce QRM the
whole contest long. Why? Is our signal too good if high power stations close
to us just work with a frequency separation of a few kHz to our frequency?
I can tell you: Their transmission was not free from spurious.
As it seems that our team shrinks we are looking for experienced contesters
and those who want to get one to support our team. You would like to operate
one of the most powerful european VHF-contest-stations, gain experience in
handling a pile up, working weak signal stations, or like to realize your
ideas to optimize our setup? You will be soon one of our great team. Drop
me a line! df0tau@darc.de
Impressions:
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 May 01 to 2004 May 02
Section : Multi
QTH : Freiensteinau
: 60km NE Frankfurt/Main
Co-OPs : DH3FAW;DJ0WW;DJ8OG;DK1CM;DK7CM;
: DL3ZAL;DL4FCS;DL6ZBN;HB9PJT
TX : TS-850 + Transverter, 600 W
RX : TS-850 + Transverter 1dB NF
Antenna : 8*6 + 4*6 elements DJ9BV, 10 mAGL, 500 mASL
Log : N1MMLogger 3.0.204, http://www.n1mm.com
QSOs : 1018
-invalid: 1 Points/valid QSO
-valid : 1017 QSO-points (*1) : 313559 308
WWLs : 89 WWL bonus (0) : 0 0
DXCCs : 17 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0
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Total score : 313559 308
ODX : T98T in JN84US at 890 km
Worked World Wide Locators:
IO90: 1 JN37: 14 JN63: 1 JN95: 1 JO33: 10 JO64: 4
IO91: 1 JN38: 7 JN65: 7 JN97: 4 JO40: 59 JO65: 3
JN08: 1 JN39: 20 JN66: 2 JN98: 7 JO41: 27 JO70: 26
JN15: 1 JN44: 2 JN68: 10 JN99: 14 JO42: 23 JO71: 8
JN16: 1 JN45: 7 JN69: 21 JO01: 1 JO43: 18 JO72: 8
JN18: 16 JN47: 19 JN75: 5 JO02: 1 JO44: 8 JO73: 3
JN19: 12 JN48: 48 JN76: 6 JO10: 10 JO50: 55 JO80: 11
JN25: 2 JN49: 50 JN78: 3 JO11: 6 JO51: 38 JO81: 3
JN26: 1 JN54: 4 JN79: 22 JO20: 7 JO52: 16 JO82: 1
JN27: 5 JN55: 3 JN84: 1 JO21: 13 JO53: 9 JO90: 9
JN28: 4 JN56: 1 JN85: 3 JO22: 5 JO54: 7 JO91: 2
JN29: 3 JN57: 1 JN86: 4 JO23: 3 JO55: 2 JO93: 1
JN34: 3 JN58: 36 JN87: 4 JO30: 25 JO60: 22 KN07: 1
JN35: 1 JN59: 24 JN88: 15 JO31: 49 JO61: 41 KN08: 1
JN36: 7 JN62: 1 JN89: 14 JO32: 13 JO62: 28
Worked DXCCs:
9A : 5 G : 4 I : 28 OM : 19 PA : 26 SP : 25
DL : 642 HA : 10 OE : 10 ON : 23 S5 : 16 T9 : 1
F : 63 HB : 27 OK : 113 OZ : 2 SM : 3
Top 10 QSO-points:
20040501 2330 T98T 55 607 59 235 JN84US 890
20040502 0336 IK0ISD/6 559 687 599 121 JN62OX 884
20040502 0407 9A3B 539 695 599 215 JN95FQ 859
20040502 0912 HA6W 59 843 59 292 KN08FB 847
20040502 0300 HG6V 599 680 599 229 KN07AV 826
20040502 0934 HG6Z 59 863 59 245 JN97WV 815
20040501 2240 HG7KLF 59 569 59 183 JN97WW 813
20040502 0110 IK5ZWU/6 599 656 599 292 JN63GN 806
20040502 0359 9A3RU 559 693 559 061 JN85LI 802
20040502 1108 9A2KK 55 919 59 272 JN85OV 772
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Oliver Prinz, DK1CM
