November Contest 2004

DK Ø TR
in JO4Øql on 144.055 MHz

This years contest season is over and we did really well! One of the highlights was of course this contest. We recognized the increase of activity in the past years during the Marconi Contest, but not with our operators. Was quite difficult to get a crew together. Only being four people we decided to put up the big antenna: 8*6ele. As we knew the weather is very instable we hurried up and got it up after only four hours. The rest of the rig was set up easily during the rain inside the warm van! Being QRV 1,5 hours before the contest began gave us a good startpoint for a clear frequency. It ran very well for the first couple of hours. During the night it was from time to time really hard to stay awake. You have to image we were only four and two of us were running the station permanently. We organized shifts of four to six hours, but still not much time to sleep. And it was the first really cold period. The water of saturday's rain on the cars was frozen on sunday morning! Anyway we had a lot of fun and enjoyed DXing. The highlight was Joel, F6FHP, from IN94. It seems to work over 970km if conditions are slightly up. It is not the first time we worked him, but do not forgett his impressive setup!  Another rare one was KN08 and JN05. Also nice to see were so many Gs in our log! During most SSB contest the number is less than half.  
As far as I can compare today we did a good job in Europe and hope to be on the air next year again!
Thanks to everyone calling us during the past contests. Special thanks to the DK0BN guys for always fair competing, and Wolfgang, DK9VZ, for hosting our website.

Merry Christmas and a happy contest season 2005!


 
 

Impressions:


 
 
the antenna setup: 4*6ele and 8*6ele
 Glyn, DJ0WW, and Wolf, DL4FCS, waiting for any call on sunday morning
 the team in November:
DL4FCS, DL2KP, DJ0WW, DL3ZAL, DK1CM (left to right)




 
 
 

Those are the squares we reached:
 

2m
  
worked squares

 
 
 
 

TACLOG -reportfile - 2m


  
Contest Report from DK0TR in JO40QL at 144 MHz
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Contest : DARC VHF Wettbewerb
Date    : 2004 Nov 06 to 2004 Nov 07
Section : Multi
QTH     : Freiensteinau
        : 60km NE Frankfurt/Main

Co-OPs  : DJ0WW;DK1CM;DL3ZAL;DL4FCS

TX      : TS-850 + Transverter, 600 W
RX      : TS-850 + Transverter 1dB NF
Antenna : 8x6 + 4x6 elements DJ9BV, 10 mAGL, 500 mASL
Log     : N1MMLogger by N1MM, 4.0.116, http://www.n1mm.com


QSOs    :  531
-invalid:    1                                       Points/valid QSO
-valid  :  530     QSO-points (*1)    :    194528                 367
WWLs    :   85     WWL bonus (0)      :         0                   0
DXCCs   :   17     DXCC bonus (0)     :         0                   0
                   ------------------------------              ------
                   Total score        :    194528                 367

ODX     : F6FHP in IN94TR at 970 km

Worked World Wide Locators:
IN94:   1   JN37:   8   JN65:  10   JN95:   1   JO31:  31   JO60:  19   
IO90:   1   JN38:   5   JN66:   2   JN97:   4   JO32:   8   JO61:  22   
IO91:   3   JN39:   8   JN67:   1   JN98:   5   JO33:   2   JO62:   8   
JN05:   1   JN44:   2   JN68:   6   JN99:  10   JO40:  12   JO63:   1   
JN07:   1   JN45:   3   JN69:  13   JO00:   4   JO41:   7   JO64:   1   
JN08:   2   JN46:   1   JN75:   8   JO01:   3   JO42:  12   JO65:   2   
JN15:   1   JN47:   5   JN76:   5   JO02:   1   JO43:   7   JO70:  26   
JN18:   6   JN48:  13   JN78:   2   JO03:   1   JO46:   1   JO71:   5   
JN19:   8   JN49:  15   JN79:  11   JO10:   1   JO50:  19   JO72:   5   
JN25:   1   JN54:   3   JN85:   2   JO11:   1   JO51:  12   JO80:   8   
JN27:   3   JN57:   1   JN86:   5   JO20:   4   JO52:   6   JO90:   2   
JN28:   2   JN58:  17   JN87:   6   JO21:   6   JO53:   9   JO91:   1   
JN29:   3   JN59:  16   JN88:  11   JO22:   2   JO54:   6   JO94:   2   
JN34:   3   JN63:   2   JN89:  17   JO30:  15   JO55:   1   KN08:   1   
JN36:   2   

Worked DXCCs:
9A  :   6   G   :  11   I   :  19   OK  :  89   OZ  :   2   SM  :   2   
DL  : 268   HA  :  11   LX  :   1   OM  :  18   PA  :  10   SP  :  10   
F   :  39   HB  :  14   OE  :   5   ON  :   7   S5  :  18   

Top 10 QSO-points:
20041107 0817 F6FHP          539  413 539  020        IN94TR      970 
20041106 2341 F5DE/P         559  322 559  050        JN05AI      899 
20041106 1837 9A2VR          599  172 599  068        JN95FQ      859 
20041107 1329 HA6W           599  525 599  198        KN08FB      847 
20041106 1857 HA6VV/P        599  186 599  100        JN97WV      815 
20041106 2230 IK5ZWU/6       599  296 599  161        JN63GN      806 
20041106 1838 9A4M           599  173 599  092        JN85EG      780 
20041107 0414 9A1B           599  375 599  199        JN85OV      772 
20041107 0157 HA5KDQ         599  356 599  183        JN97LN      770 
20041107 1225 I4XCC          599  504 599  007        JN63GV      770 
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Oliver Prinz, DK1CM

 
 

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