Maybe you remember the trouble we had in July with our permanent installed antenna system of 4x6ele. The return loss was just too high the we could not use it. After some discussions about a different antenna system, there was not too much time left till September. Thus we just replaced the dipoles and feeding network during a nice summer day in August. Maybe there will be some changes next year. Anyhow the antenna performed again very well.
In the pictures below you can see how we erect the mast which holds our 8x6ele yagis. Not an easy task to have an antenna with eight yagis vertically stacked. As we are trained for years now, it does not take too long till the antenna is up. As usually in September all our competitors are on the air. So far as usual, but something was different: usually we have very high QSO numbers but a low average distance per QSO. This time we stopped with 853 QSOs and 334km/QSO, which is a high average for our QTH but a very small number of QSOs. As you can see in the TOP 20 QSOs below there were some nice DXes but nothing unusual. I just wonder why we missed so many QSO-partners which were contacted by others....  
The season in SSB is done for us, but we are looking forward to have fun in November's Marconi Memorial Contest!

Impressions:

side view of 8x6ele while erecting the mast	view over the mast of the 8x6ele while it is at 45degree.
three people pull up the mast	the 8x6ele homemade yagis in its operating position
This time we had some co-opterators....  muuhhh	nice light and clouds effects in the evening to the east.
the team in Septbember: DF6FR, DK7CM, DL7FG, DJ0WW, DL6ZBN, DL3ZAL, DL8DAU, DL3IAS (left to right)

Those are the squares we reached:
 

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TACLOG -reportfile - 2m

Contest : DARC VHF Wettbewerb
Date    : 2008 Sep 06 to 2008 Sep 07
Section : Multi
QTH     : Freiensteinau
        : 60km NE Frankfurt/Main

Co-OPs  : DF6FR;DJ0WW;DK7CM;DL2KP;DL3IAS;DL3ZAL;DL6ZBN
        : DL7FG;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    :  853
-invalid:    2                                       Points/valid QSO
-valid  :  851     QSO-points (*1)    :    284383                 334
WWLs    :  101     WWL bonus (0)      :         0                   0
DXCCs   :   18     DXCC bonus (0)     :         0                   0
                   ------------------------------              ------
                   Total score        :    284383                 334

ODX     : 9A7D in JN95CI at 870 km

Worked World Wide Locators:
IO90:   1   JN36:   7   JN63:   2   JN95:   3   JO33:   6   JO62:  28   
IO91:   1   JN37:   7   JN64:   1   JN97:   4   JO34:   1   JO63:   2   
IO92:   1   JN38:   7   JN65:   9   JN98:   5   JO40:  37   JO64:   2   
JN08:   1   JN39:  12   JN66:   4   JN99:  14   JO41:  21   JO65:   2   
JN09:   1   JN42:   1   JN67:   6   JO00:   1   JO42:  19   JO70:  18   
JN14:   1   JN44:   4   JN68:   8   JO01:   5   JO43:  12   JO71:  10   
JN15:   1   JN45:   3   JN69:  19   JO02:   2   JO44:   2   JO72:   6   
JN16:   3   JN46:   4   JN75:   4   JO03:   1   JO45:   1   JO73:   4   
JN18:   9   JN47:  16   JN76:  12   JO10:   8   JO46:   1   JO80:   6   
JN19:   7   JN48:  29   JN77:   1   JO11:   5   JO50:  38   JO81:   2   
JN24:   1   JN49:  36   JN78:   4   JO20:   8   JO51:  25   JO82:   3   
JN25:   4   JN54:   6   JN79:  15   JO21:   6   JO52:  10   JO83:   1   
JN26:   3   JN55:   3   JN85:   6   JO22:   7   JO53:  10   JO90:   3   
JN27:   3   JN56:   2   JN86:   7   JO23:   4   JO55:   1   JO92:   1   
JN28:   3   JN57:   4   JN87:   4   JO30:  24   JO56:   1   JO93:   2   
JN29:   6   JN58:  19   JN88:   4   JO31:  55   JO60:  25   KN08:   1   
JN34:   3   JN59:  14   JN89:  17   JO32:  15   JO61:  37   

Worked DXCCs:
9A  :  14   G   :  11   I   :  31   OK  :  87   OZ  :   6   SM  :   1   
DL  : 488   HA  :   6   LX  :   4   OM  :  14   PA  :  27   SP  :  25   
F   :  57   HB  :  22   OE  :  17   ON  :  20   S5  :  20   TK  :   1   

Top 10 QSO-points:
20080907 0330 9A7D           599  557 599  151        JN95CI      870 
20080907 0700 9A4V           59   636 59   331        JN95CI      870 
20080907 0307 9A50KDE        599  551 599  182        JN95FQ      859 
20080907 0337 OM3VSZ         599  559 599  261        KN08LS      855 
20080907 0621 TK5EP/P        59   614 59   236        JN42QX      835 
20080907 1138 9A6K           59   794 59   439        JN85WN      835 
20080907 0256 IK5ZWU/6       599  545 599  331        JN63GN      806 
20080906 1612 9A1N           59   173 59   070        JN85LI      802 
20080907 0600 SP4SAS         59   602 59   025        JO93XN      801 
20080907 0300 9A5Y           599  547 599  453        JN85PO      800 

73

Oliver Prinz, DK1CM