Eugen, DL3ZAL, and Oli, DK1CM (left to right).
May Contest 2005
DK Ø TR
in JO4Øql on
144.355 MHz
Once again it was
really fun to see that everything is still working after the long
winter break. In March we decided to stay home because the crew would
have only be three people and snow was half a meter high at the contest
location. This time the crew shrinked again..... It was
Eugen, DL3ZAL, and Oli, DK1CM, beeing at the location from friday noon
till sunday evening. We are thankful to have some aid of Glyn, DJ0WW,
on friday for setting up the antenna. On saturday Gerhard, DH3FAW,
joined us for a couple of hours and on sunday Georg, DL2KP, helped us
getting down the antenna again. It was hard enough anyway. When looking
back the last three year it always rained in May and we were glad that
we had started setting up the equipment on friday. Same this time. Just
when we arrived around noon it stoped raining and we had the chance
setting up the antennas. It was really windy and rained from time to
time in the afternoon. We decided not to put up the big antenna, so
only two systems of 4 x 6 element DJ9BV design yagis. Even that was not
easy because of the wind. Finally the 2m station was ready on friday
evening.
When getting up on saturday morning it already rained. And it did not
stop till it got dark. But not only rain, the wind was as bad, we
better call it storm! As one of the antennas was on the tower which in
mounted in the van, the whole van was shaken from time to time and our
tent nearly flew away. That is still not enough: About two hours before
the contest started static rain began. It stopped just 10 minutes
before 14UTC. But it lasted only about 50 minutes till it was there
again. We were glad that it stayed not for the whole contest but came
back when you had a weak signal in the noise...... Contest
started as expected at such weather conditions. Conditions on the band
were average and sometimes below. Our kilometer per QSO rate was around
260km/QSO in the evening. When cheching for competitors during the
evening we were surprised that they had 30 QSOs and more less that we.
Our kilometer per QSO rate increased during the night as usual.
Conditions seem to be average. Some spots on the cluster was showing
aurora in north germany, but nothing at our location. Again we stay on
the SSB-frequency for the whole night and just went searching into the
CW-band from time to time. Activity was rather high to we had a high
number. The end was comming closer and aurora spots on the cluster
getting more and more. When seeing the first spot from HA via aurora we
tuned over the CW-band: It way crowded by aurora signals! The
last half an hours we made 12 contacts via aurora. The aurora was
really south because we worked into S5 and I3! Problem was that too
many locals were calling us on tropo.... why? This improved our
kilometer per QSO rate a lot! At 14 UTC we tuned over the band for a
while - waiting for the rain to stop - and even found strong signals on
SSB via aurora. But no time to have some more fun on the band. We had
to get home after only a little sleep for the last two nights. Around
15:15UTC - while waiting for another rain shower to pass by - we heard
GD4IOM on the Ilse of Man with a quater lambda vertical on the car via
aurora. Wow! I guess aurora stopped some time around 16:30UTC in JO40.
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 : 2005 May 07 to 2005 May 08
Section : Multi
QTH : Freiensteinau
: 60km NE Frankfurt/Main
Co-OPs : 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 4.0.197, http://www.n1mm.com
QSOs : 979
-invalid: 0 Points/valid QSO
-valid : 979 QSO-points (*1) : 297673 304
WWLs : 95 WWL bonus (0) : 0 0
DXCCs : 17 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0
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Total score : 297673 304
ODX : IQ0TE/6 in JN62OW at 888 km
Worked World Wide Locators:
IN98: 1 JN29: 8 JN59: 26 JN87: 2 JO33: 5 JO61: 27
IO90: 1 JN34: 1 JN62: 1 JN88: 7 JO40: 53 JO62: 19
IO91: 2 JN36: 8 JN63: 2 JN89: 13 JO41: 25 JO63: 2
JN06: 1 JN37: 12 JN64: 1 JN95: 1 JO42: 24 JO64: 4
JN07: 1 JN38: 7 JN65: 7 JN97: 4 JO43: 20 JO65: 4
JN08: 2 JN39: 14 JN66: 2 JN98: 6 JO44: 6 JO70: 19
JN09: 2 JN44: 3 JN67: 2 JN99: 13 JO45: 3 JO71: 13
JN15: 1 JN45: 5 JN68: 11 JO10: 11 JO50: 81 JO72: 9
JN16: 2 JN47: 17 JN69: 18 JO11: 5 JO51: 22 JO73: 3
JN17: 2 JN48: 32 JN75: 5 JO20: 14 JO52: 13 JO80: 7
JN18: 10 JN49: 53 JN76: 5 JO21: 13 JO53: 15 JO81: 1
JN19: 6 JN54: 10 JN77: 2 JO22: 9 JO54: 11 JO90: 1
JN25: 1 JN55: 2 JN78: 2 JO23: 3 JO55: 2 JO91: 1
JN26: 1 JN56: 2 JN79: 17 JO30: 26 JO56: 1 JO94: 1
JN27: 1 JN57: 7 JN85: 1 JO31: 64 JO57: 1 KN07: 1
JN28: 4 JN58: 30 JN86: 9 JO32: 17 JO60: 17
Worked DXCCs:
9A : 8 G : 3 I : 32 OK : 83 OZ : 8 SM : 3
DL : 640 HA : 8 LX : 1 OM : 14 PA : 34 SP : 15
F : 52 HB : 26 OE : 9 ON : 30 S5 : 13
Top 10 QSO-points:
20050508 0326 IQ0TE/6 59 665 59 229 JN62OW 888
20050508 0351 9A3B 59 676 59 227 JN95FQ 859
20050508 0108 HG6V 52 643 59 182 KN07AV 826
20050508 1141 HG6Z 559 902 59 274 JN97WV 815
20050508 0030 HG7KLF 52 630 59 159 JN97WW 813
20050507 2231 I5PVA/6 55 557 55 231 JN63GN 806
20050508 0527 F8KOP/P 59 704 59 107 JN06JG 788
20050507 2348 F6KEQ 55 608 59 086 IN98OB 785
20050507 2100 IW4CJM 59 486 59 024 JN63HV 772
20050508 1024 OZ6ABA 51 867 55 018 JO57DJ 772
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Oliver Prinz, DK1CM
