I added pages ranting about our crew, our equipment and our location on the righthand sidebar. Unfortunately, Wordpress (the underlying blog system used on this page), or more precisely the included richtext-WYSIWYG-editor decided to omit parts of the beatiful hand-crafted tables used to aggregate our results in 2005 and 2006, although i did not even save them in that editor! Grrrrrrr! I will have to rebuild them from scratch, but not today, i am really fed up…

The detailed results of 2006 are still there for your information.

After the September IARU contest, the top of the German contest trophy (multi-op section) looks like this:

1. DL0GTH: 6113
2. DM7A: 5794
3. DF0YY: 5584
4. DF0MTL: 4633
5. DR5A: 4509
6. DL0V: 4394

So we have got roughly the same distance up to DF0MTL and down to DL0V, and it is unlikely (although not impossible), that the ranking will change after October UHF contest. The Marconi contest will not change anything at all, so i looks like as if we will end up in the 5th place this year.

I am now finished with uploading pictures of the October 2006 contest, featuring many pictures of our new 2m dish for 23cm and 13cm, and some atmospheric night shoots of the full moon over the contest site. But i want to draw your attention to two pictures of a natural phenomenon that is often overlooked, but that we noticed while taking down the equipment on sunday afternoon: Sundogs (Parhelion). I heard of them, but never noticed one before. So this was a nice ending of the contest weekend.

The “additional suns” can be found as bright spots in the clouds, left and right of the man sun (which i tried to hide behind the windmill).
 

Other nice pictures:

• Sunset on sunday evening
  
• Night shots with full moon
   
• Ursa Maior over our generator trailer
  
• The shack caravan
  
• Windmill park
  

…are here. A longer report and more detailed statistics will follow soon.

EDIT: The detailed report is now online, enjoy!

While i am still waiting for our logs of that event, i already uploaded some pictures of the October 2006 UHF & Microwave Contest. Please check back regularly into that album, as more pictures will be added shortly.

The DARC published the german results of the September 144 MHz contest. We finished in 7th place out of 82 multi-op participants, which is quite satisfying.The score of DR9A is really impressive, the best score since 2000 at least.

The next (and for us: last) contest of this year is lying ahead: IARU region I UHF/SHF/microwave-contest. We will take part from the usual location in JO30EM featuring a new 2 m diameter dish for 23cm (200w power) and 13cm (40w power), and our usual 8×11el+700w for 70cm and 70cm dish+10w for 3cm. We hope for many nice QSOs to complete our VHF contest 2006 season, as we are normally omitting the November Marconi contest.

But this time, the October contest will not be our last visit to the JO30EM-site: At the last weekend of October parts of the NRCOCOS-Team will set up some HF antennas there and take part in the CQWW-SSB-DX contest as DR5A in die Multi/Single category, enjoying a sidekick from the VHF&up work :-).