Everything seemed to be fine when we started to setup our antennas an Saturday morning. Around 12 o'clock we had the first signal on the air. But what did we see: The permanent installed 4x6ele DJ9BV yagis had a SWR of worse the 5:1. Half the power was measured as reflected power. The rest was probably lost on the cable? We have not found out what was going wrong because we had no equipment to reach the antennas. But there was an other option: We searched for spare parts and setup another group of 4x6ele DJ9BV. Just 40 minutes before the contest started everything was on its place and running. Activity was rather low at the beginning of the contest but more and more DX stations joined our log. There were a few nice ones from north Poland and even RK2FWA called us. Also activity in G was high as always in July when there is the fielday contest. We also enjoyed a quite large number italiens calling, best DX reached to JN72, not very common at our location.
To sumerize: Again a nice event at which we got a work-around for most of our problems.  Some work till September has to be done.
Thanks for everyone calling us!

Impressions:

antennas: 4x6ele (SWR >5:1) 4x6ele + 8x6ele	antennas: 4x6ele (SWR >5:1) 4x6ele + 8x6ele, repeater tower
Matt (DJ8OG) and Joe (DL6ZBN) at the operating position	Matt (DL8DAU) and Matt (DJ8OG) discussing
Nino (DL3IAS), Oli (DK1CM) and Georg (DL2KP) discussing	excellent view towards Frankfurt/Main (QRB 65km), you can see the light of the Messeturm, Ginheimer Spargel and some other high buildings
excellent view to the east during night, you can see TV-towers in the "Rhön"	the team in March: DJ8OG, DK1CM, DL2KP, DL6ZBN, DL3IAS, DK7CM, DL8DAU(downwards)

Those are the squares we reached:
 

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TACLOG -reportfile - 2m

Contest : DARC VHF Wettbewerb
Date    : 2008 Jul 05 to 2008 Jul 06
Section : Multi
QTH     : Freiensteinau
        : 60km NE Frankfurt/Main

Co-OPs  : DF6FR;DJ8OG;DK1CM;DK7CM;DL3IAS;DL6ZBN;DL8DAU

TX      : TS-850 + Transverter, 600 W
RX      : TS-850 + Transverter 1dB NF
Antenna : 8x6+4x6 elements DJ9BV, 10 mAGL, 500 mASL
Log     : N1MMLogger 5.0.120, http://www.n1mm.com

QSOs    :  901
-invalid:    1                                       Points/valid QSO
-valid  :  900     QSO-points (*1)    :    296506                 329
WWLs    :  101     WWL bonus (0)      :         0                   0
DXCCs   :   18     DXCC bonus (0)     :         0                   0
                   ------------------------------              ------
                   Total score        :    296506                 329

ODX     : IQ3GA/6 in JN72BE at 992 km

Worked World Wide Locators:
IO90:   3   JN36:  10   JN65:   4   JN95:   1   JO33:   3   JO61:  47   
IO91:   2   JN37:  13   JN66:   1   JN96:   1   JO34:   1   JO62:  25   
JN07:   3   JN38:   7   JN67:   2   JN97:   5   JO40:  42   JO63:   3   
JN08:   1   JN39:  12   JN68:  11   JN98:   2   JO41:  22   JO64:   2   
JN14:   1   JN44:   4   JN69:  20   JN99:  10   JO42:  27   JO65:   6   
JN15:   3   JN45:   7   JN72:   1   JO01:   7   JO43:   8   JO70:  24   
JN17:   1   JN47:  24   JN74:   1   JO02:   1   JO44:   5   JO71:  14   
JN18:   6   JN48:  28   JN75:   4   JO03:   1   JO45:   3   JO72:   6   
JN19:   4   JN49:  32   JN76:   7   JO10:  12   JO46:   1   JO73:   3   
JN24:   1   JN54:   5   JN77:   1   JO11:   4   JO50:  43   JO80:  10   
JN25:   3   JN55:   3   JN78:   3   JO20:   6   JO51:  24   JO81:   3   
JN26:   2   JN57:   7   JN79:  21   JO21:   7   JO52:  13   JO82:   1   
JN27:   1   JN58:  26   JN85:   5   JO22:   8   JO53:   8   JO90:   2   
JN28:   3   JN59:  13   JN86:   5   JO23:   1   JO54:   1   JO92:   2   
JN29:   4   JN62:   1   JN87:   4   JO30:  23   JO55:   2   JO93:   2   
JN34:   1   JN63:   2   JN88:   9   JO31:  64   JO57:   1   JO94:   3   
JN35:   1   JN64:   1   JN89:  18   JO32:  15   JO60:  23   

Worked DXCCs:
9A  :  10   G   :  14   I   :  28   OK  : 105   OZ  :   9   SM  :   5   
DL  : 532   HA  :   8   LX  :   1   OM  :  14   PA  :  25   SP  :  23   
F   :  46   HB  :  35   OE  :  11   ON  :  19   S5  :  14   UA2 :   1   

Top 10 QSO-points:
20080706 1024 IQ3GA/6        57   790 59   207        JN72BE      992 
20080705 1739 I0NLK/0        59   248 59   015        JN62NO      922 
20080706 0226 9A4V           59   593 59   305        JN95KI      908 
20080705 1940 RK2FWA         59   383 59   033        JO94XV      865 
20080706 0526 9A6K           59   654 59   252        JN85WL      842 
20080706 1302 HG3X           59   870 59   312        JN96EE      818 
20080706 0925 HG6Z           599  757 599  389        JN97WV      815 
20080705 1812 HG7KLF         59   289 59   107        JN97WW      813 
20080706 0858 IK5ZWU/6       59   747 59   406        JN63GN      806 
20080705 1531 9A5Y           57   123 59   106        JN85PO      800 

73

Oliver Prinz, DK1CM