The forcast was right and we had excellent weather during the whole weekend. It was was not clear if we get everything up again because of a lack of operators. Georg, DL2KP, and Oli, DK1CM, started early on Saturday morning getting up the antennas. As we were only two, there was no chance to get up the 8x6 ele. So we only realized the small version: two systems of 4x6ele. Glyn, DJ0WW, just arrived shortly before the contest. The start was really poor. Only 91 QSOs the first hour. We did not expect great results as there were two matches of the world champion chip that evening (15 & 19UTC). The more we were surprised to get 93 QSOs into the log in the second hour during the match. It must be long ago when we had the maximum of QSOs not during the first hour. What started before the contest got worse from minute to minute: a noise floor on the band. We soon found the neighbour station DL0STO a couple of kilometers away. If they were transmitting the noise raised up to S7. Thats not a setup you can do contest with! We lost many QSOs because of the QRM-source and some took exordinary long...  Thanks to everyone repeating everything serveral times! I hope they get an other setup in September otherwise contest is no fun for us anymore. Is that ham spirit?  Anyway around midnight Joe, DL6ZBN, joined us and did most of the night shift. The conditions were rather good. No extreme DX but some highlights: GM4ZUK from IO86 on Saturday evening and LA2PHA from JO38 on Sunday morning.

As you can see at our result of 980 QSOs and good 300k points not only the antenna is responsible for the result. Conditions are even more important. One thing we discovered is that we worked more PAs than usually. Is that because of the smaller antenna in that direction? You must know to the west we have hills being 200m higher in a distance of 10km, Maybe the angle of the 8x6ele is usually too flat? Or was there any special activity?

See you in September!

Impressions:

small rig this time: 2 arrays of 4x6ele DJ9BV	the team in July: DJ0WW, DK1CM, DL6ZBN, DL2KP (left to right)

Those are the squares we reached:
 

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TACLOG -reportfile - 2m

Contest Report from DR2X in JO40QL at 144 MHz
=============================================

Contest : DARC VHF Wettbewerb
Date    : 2006 Jul 01 to 2006 Jul 02
Section : Multi
QTH     : Freiensteinau
        : 60km NE Frankfurt/Main

Co-OPs  : DK1CM;DJ0WW;DL6ZBN

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 5.0.120, http://www.n1mm.com

QSOs    :  980
-invalid:    0                                       Points/valid QSO
-valid  :  980     QSO-points (*1)    :    308138                 314
WWLs    :   97     WWL bonus (0)      :         0                   0
DXCCs   :   19     DXCC bonus (0)     :         0                   0
                   ------------------------------              ------
                   Total score        :    308138                 314

ODX     : GM4ZUK/P in IO86RW at 1061 km

Worked World Wide Locators:
IN97:   1   JN34:   1   JN59:  26   JN89:  20   JO38:   1   JO61:  35   
IO86:   1   JN35:   1   JN63:   1   JN97:   2   JO40:  56   JO62:  17   
IO90:   1   JN36:   6   JN64:   1   JN98:   6   JO41:  29   JO63:   1   
IO91:   6   JN37:  19   JN65:   5   JN99:  15   JO42:  22   JO64:   7   
IO93:   1   JN38:   7   JN66:   2   JO01:   3   JO43:  17   JO65:   2   
JN06:   1   JN39:  20   JN67:   2   JO02:   1   JO44:   7   JO70:  22   
JN08:   2   JN44:   2   JN68:   7   JO10:   5   JO45:   2   JO71:   9   
JN14:   1   JN45:   6   JN69:  20   JO11:   5   JO46:   3   JO72:   8   
JN15:   3   JN46:   3   JN75:   2   JO20:  11   JO50:  53   JO73:   3   
JN17:   1   JN47:  26   JN76:   4   JO21:  15   JO51:  30   JO80:   8   
JN18:   6   JN48:  30   JN77:   2   JO22:  17   JO52:  16   JO81:   2   
JN19:   3   JN49:  32   JN78:   3   JO23:   3   JO53:  15   JO90:   6   
JN25:   9   JN54:   5   JN79:  24   JO30:  29   JO54:   2   JO91:   1   
JN26:   1   JN55:   3   JN85:   3   JO31:  59   JO55:   1   JO92:   1   
JN27:   2   JN57:   2   JN86:   6   JO32:  21   JO57:   1   JO93:   2   
JN28:   2   JN58:  29   JN88:  10   JO33:   8   JO60:  27   JO94:   1   
JN29:   2   

Worked DXCCs:
9A  :   4   GM  :   1   I   :  25   OE  :  12   ON  :  23   S5  :  10   
DL  : 588   HA  :   4   LA  :   1   OK  : 115   OZ  :   9   SM  :   1   
F   :  44   HB  :  39   LX  :   2   OM  :  15   PA  :  53   SP  :  22   
G   :  12   

Top 10 QSO-points:
20060701 1730 GM4ZUK/P       599  294 59   103        IO86RW     1061 
20060701 2318 IK0DDP/6       59   550 59   221        JN63KC      863 
20060702 0824 LA2PHA         559  773 55   010        JO38IB      861 
20060702 0329 9A9M           59   635 59   230        JN85TI      838 
20060702 0937 G3CKR/P        44   831 59   208        IO93AD      833 
20060701 1823 HG6Z           59   347 59   146        JN97WV      815 
20060702 1158 F6APE          59   917 57   013        IN97QI      809 
20060702 0437 SP4YGS         59   659 59   045        JO93XN      801 
20060701 2132 9A5Y           59   493 59   327        JN85PO      800 
20060702 0325 G8SRC/P        57   633 59   151        IO91CL      789 
 

73

Oliver Prinz, DK1CM