That is what we were looking for after horrible weather during the March contest two month ago: sunshine all weekend long and a high level of activity. It was again one of the very nice events which we like to remember for a long time.
Everything went well and we got the first signal around noon on the air. There was lots of time for barbeque and discussions. The contest started again with high QSO rates, but this time they did not drop that fast. Everyone seemed to use the wonderful weather for a portable activity. Even through the night activity was high compared to March. Only the real DX was missing, nothing above 900km was heard. On Sunday we were heading directly towards 900 QSOs. Internal bets were arranged if we would hit the mark of 1000QSOs. It was unclear until a  few minutes before the end. We just made it with 1004 QSOs.
Thanks to everyone who helped us to reach the score. Hope we meet again in July!

Impressions:

weather is just optimal for contesting: sunshine and blue sky.	the antennas are set up: 8x6ele DJ9BV and 4x6ele DJ9BV
Nino, DL3IAS, and Maik, DJ2QV, while setting up the antennas	our big gun: 8x6ele DJ9BV
the antennas in May: 8x6ele and 4x6ele DJ9BV	our youngest OP this time: Bruno
DL3ZAL and DJ2QV at the operating position	the team in May: DL6ZBN,Bruno, DL3ZAL, DK7CM, DL3IAS, DJ0WW, DK1CM, DL7FG (left to right)

Those are the squares we reached:
 

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TACLOG -reportfile - 2m

Contest : DARC VHF Wettbewerb
Date    : 2008 May 03 to 2008 May 04
Section : Multi
QTH     : Freiensteinau
        : 60km NE Frankfurt/Main

Co-OPs  : DJ0WW;DJ2QV;DK1CM;DK7CM;DL3IAS;DL3ZAL;DL6ZBN;DL7FG

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    : 1004
-invalid:    0                                       Points/valid QSO
-valid  : 1004     QSO-points (*1)    :    316424                 315
WWLs    :   98     WWL bonus (0)      :         0                   0
DXCCs   :   18     DXCC bonus (0)     :         0                   0
                   ------------------------------              ------
                   Total score        :    316424                 315

ODX     : 9A4V in JN95CI at 870 km

Worked World Wide Locators:
IN98:   1   JN38:   3   JN65:   9   JN97:   4   JO34:   1   JO63:   1   
IO90:   1   JN39:  17   JN66:   2   JN98:   5   JO40:  47   JO64:   3   
IO92:   1   JN42:   1   JN67:   3   JN99:  12   JO41:  33   JO65:   5   
JN09:   2   JN44:   3   JN68:  14   JO00:   1   JO42:  24   JO70:  16   
JN15:   3   JN45:  10   JN69:  17   JO01:   2   JO43:  24   JO71:  18   
JN17:   1   JN46:   1   JN75:  10   JO02:   1   JO44:   4   JO72:   5   
JN18:   5   JN47:  22   JN76:   5   JO10:  11   JO45:   1   JO73:   6   
JN19:   3   JN48:  41   JN77:   1   JO11:   4   JO46:   1   JO80:   7   
JN25:   4   JN49:  51   JN78:   2   JO20:   4   JO50:  52   JO81:   4   
JN26:   3   JN54:   8   JN79:  11   JO21:   7   JO51:  34   JO82:   1   
JN27:   3   JN55:   4   JN85:   2   JO22:   7   JO52:  18   JO83:   1   
JN28:   4   JN56:   1   JN86:   8   JO23:   2   JO53:  16   JO90:   2   
JN29:   5   JN57:   6   JN87:   4   JO30:  30   JO54:   6   JO92:   1   
JN34:   2   JN58:  50   JN88:   8   JO31:  62   JO60:  22   JO93:   3   
JN35:   1   JN59:  15   JN89:  14   JO32:  14   JO61:  39   JO94:   1   
JN36:   8   JN63:   6   JN95:   1   JO33:   8   JO62:  26   KN08:   1   
JN37:   8   JN64:   2   

Worked DXCCs:
9A  :  12   G   :   5   I   :  40   OK  :  68   OZ  :   3   SM  :   4   
DL  : 674   HA  :   8   LX  :   4   OM  :  17   PA  :  27   SP  :  26   
F   :  43   HB  :  25   OE  :  14   ON  :  17   S5  :  16   TK  :   1   

Top 10 QSO-points:
20080504 0223 9A4V           559  687 599  258        JN95CI      870 
20080504 0346 HA6W           559  708 599  346        KN08FB      847 
20080503 2154 I6/OK1DTP/P    59   546 59   091        JN63NJ      838 
20080503 1956 TK5EP/P        59   439 59   172        JN42QX      835 
20080504 0946 IK0VWO/6       59   889 59   056        JN63IL      819 
20080504 0155 HG7KLF         59   680 59   202        JN97WW      813 
20080504 0547 IK5ZWU/6       599  743 559  308        JN63GN      806 
20080503 2231 9A1N           59   578 59   236        JN85LI      802 
20080503 1507 SP4SAS         59   116 59   008        JO93XN      801 
20080503 2307 IK6LZA         59   603 59   107        JN63MS      796 

73

Oliver Prinz, DK1CM