DL3ZAL, DL6ZBN, DJ2QV, DJ0WW, DK1CM (left to right)
March Contest 2008
DR 2
X
in JO4Øql on
144.355 MHz
This
was probably the worst weather we ever had during a contest. Cold is
one thing, snow another, but all this is nothing when there is a strom
blowing at more than 100km/h. And we were so lucky to have too peaks of
the storm during the contest. One on Saturday morning when we set up
our rig and one on Sunday morning and of course rain all weekend long.
The desicion was soon made that we will stick to a minimum of antennas:
4x6 element and 2x6 element had to be enough this time. As our
team worked out perfectly we were QRV early again. First we thought our
receiver has a problem because there was no signal on the bad two ours
before the contest.... But the beacons were all there!
Everyone else stayed at home? The first hour really started well:
104 QSOs and nearly no QRM. When the wind got stronger we secured not
only the tower which is built in the van with ropes but also the van
itself, because it was swinging at every blast. QSO-rates soon dropped
but average distance per QSO went up. Activity during the night was
really poor and conditions were normal but with lots of QSB. We
succeeded all difficulties and ended with 855QSOs at an average of
297km per QSO. 253 thousand points is not bad if you see our poor
antenna situation and the bad weather conditions, I think.
Murphy was again with us: When the antennas were taken down and
everything was stored again the wind and rain was gone too. It just
seemed it was a usual day with a lot of clouds at the sky.... Looking
forward to sunshine in May!
Impressions:
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| DJ2QV and DJ0WW at
the operating position |
the team in
March: DL3ZAL, DL6ZBN, DJ2QV, DJ0WW, DK1CM (left to right) |
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Those
are the
squares we reached:
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TACLOG -reportfile - 2m
Contest Report from DR2X in JO40QL at 144 MHz
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Contest : DARC VHF Wettbewerb
Date : 2008 Mar 01 to 2008 Mar 02
Section : Multi
QTH : Freiensteinau
: 60km NE Frankfurt/Main
Co-OPs : DJ0WW;DJ2QV;DK1CM;DL3ZAL;DL6ZBN;DL8DAU
TX : TS-850 + Transverter, 600 W
RX : TS-850 + Transverter 1dB NF
Antenna : 4*6 + 2*6 elements DJ9BV, 10 mAGL, 500 mASL
Log : N1MMLogger 5.0.120, http://www.n1mm.com
QSOs : 855
-invalid: 0 Points/valid QSO
-valid : 855 QSO-points (*1) : 253876 297
WWLs : 89 WWL bonus (0) : 0 0
DXCCs : 18 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0
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Total score : 253876 297
ODX : HA6W in KN08FB at 847 km
Worked World Wide Locators:
IN99: 1 JN37: 10 JN65: 8 JN99: 11 JO41: 24 JO63: 4
IO90: 1 JN38: 7 JN66: 1 JO01: 3 JO42: 32 JO64: 1
IO92: 1 JN39: 17 JN68: 9 JO02: 1 JO43: 12 JO65: 4
JN06: 2 JN44: 4 JN69: 11 JO03: 1 JO44: 4 JO70: 22
JN09: 1 JN45: 6 JN75: 2 JO10: 10 JO50: 48 JO71: 14
JN15: 1 JN46: 1 JN76: 4 JO11: 3 JO51: 24 JO72: 4
JN17: 2 JN47: 23 JN78: 4 JO20: 9 JO52: 15 JO73: 1
JN18: 2 JN48: 32 JN79: 9 JO21: 5 JO53: 10 JO80: 5
JN19: 4 JN49: 56 JN85: 2 JO22: 3 JO54: 5 JO81: 2
JN25: 4 JN54: 4 JN86: 3 JO23: 1 JO55: 2 JO90: 2
JN26: 1 JN55: 2 JN87: 3 JO30: 27 JO56: 1 JO91: 2
JN28: 3 JN57: 5 JN88: 8 JO31: 59 JO57: 1 JO92: 1
JN29: 4 JN58: 34 JN89: 16 JO32: 13 JO60: 14 JO93: 3
JN34: 1 JN59: 17 JN97: 4 JO33: 4 JO61: 39 KN08: 1
JN36: 4 JN63: 1 JN98: 2 JO40: 43 JO62: 28
Worked DXCCs:
9A : 6 G : 7 HB0 : 1 OE : 11 ON : 20 S5 : 8
DL : 602 HA : 4 I : 22 OK : 64 OZ : 5 SM : 3
F : 35 HB : 21 LX : 2 OM : 11 PA : 19 SP : 14
Top 10 QSO-points:
20080302 0441 HA6W 599 605 599 128 KN08FB 847
20080302 0605 HG6Z 59 621 59 176 JN97WV 815
20080302 1305 IK5ZWU/6 59 827 59 253 JN63GN 806
20080301 1528 SP4SAS 52 150 59 005 JO93XN 801
20080301 1851 9A5Y 59 359 59 147 JN85PO 800
20080302 0525 TM2OP 59 611 59 141 JN06JG 788
20080301 2145 OZ6ABA 59 504 59 015 JO57DJ 772
20080301 2257 HA5KDQ 559 543 599 173 JN97LN 770
20080301 1925 G7RAU 559 387 55 010 IO90IR 753
20080301 1905 SP2IPK 59 370 59 002 JO93LR 747
73
Oliver Prinz, DK1CM
