Archive for November, 2006

July contest photos…

November 14, 2006 at 11:44 pm · Filed under Administrative Stuff, Pictures

Working down my backlog, i finally uploaded some photos of the 2006 July contest (pre-setup on friday). Enjoy.

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October UHF/SHF/Microwave Contest results

November 10, 2006 at 10:33 am · Filed under Contest Results

The (german) October results are out. While DL0GTH and DM7A sported some very impressive scores, behind them the scores quickly shrunk, so that we could achieve some nice ranks although we only achieved around 1/3 of the scores of DL0GTH or DM7A.

Results of DR5A:

  • 70cm: Place 5 of 58 Participants
  • 23cm: Place 5 of 37 Participants
  • 13cm: Place 4 of 17 Participants
  • 3cm: Place 7 of 13 Participants

In the german contest trophy, we stayed on place 5 of 249 multi-op participants, but could shave off much of the gap to the 4th place, and put some more points between us and the 6th place. It is very unlikely that the top 10 will change after the evaluation of Marconi CW contest, so this will be the final result of 2006, too:

  1. DL0GTH: 7847
  2. DM7A: 7556
  3. DF0YY: 7099
  4. DF0MTL: 5791
  5. DR5A: 5724
  6. DL0V: 5556
  7. DK0NA: 5357
  8. DM0Y: 5278
  9. DK0PU: 4005
  10. DK0ZB: 3916

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More Pictures of CQWW DX SSB 2006 added

November 9, 2006 at 11:50 am · Filed under Administrative Stuff, Pictures

I added more Pictures of the CQWW DX SSB 2006 contest (starting on page 2 of that gallery), and i spiced up the “Where we are” page by adding a 360° panorama view of the JO30EM site. The Quicktime player is needed to explore that panorama. Enjoy.

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CQWW DX SSB contest + pictures

November 2, 2006 at 2:48 pm · Filed under Contest Claims, Pictures

Georg, DL1ECG, uploaded his pictures of the CQWW DX SSB contest we did with a small team using DR5A. We tried a portable setup on our VHF location JO30EM and participated in the M/S category.

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Our claim from the 3830 score reflector:

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: DR5A
Operator(s): DB9EX, DF1LON, DK2CRN, DL1ECG, DL1ELY
Station: DR5A

Class: M/S HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:

 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  129     6       42
   80:  334     9       61
   40:  270    22       88
   20:  717    36      125
   15:  435    33      122
   10:  194    16       82
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Total: 2079   122      520  Total Score = 2,165,466

Club: Rhein Ruhr DX Association

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Not many of you already knew DR5A. The call is mainly used for VHF contest
operation from our portable location. After a rather successfull VHF and up
season we decided to make our first M/S entry from that location. On friday
morning we set up our small portable contest station:

Running station:
FT1000MP + AL80b
FB-33 (3ele 20m/15m/10m) 12m up
Windom (160m/80m/40) 80m long and 16m up
Vertical 40m

Multi station:
FT1000MP + Acom 1010
R7000 (40m-10m)

We are satisfied with the score compared to our small setup. What we missed
several times was a second beam for the Multi station. On day two it was very
difficult to get the rare and needed multis. Sometimes we switched the beam
from the running station to the multi station which resulted in a very loud
“ahh”: signal increased from S1 to S7 and only one call was needed to log a
certain station.
Very high local noise on 160m of S9. We could not really find the source as
there are green fields, green fields and green fields around us. But we have
some wind turbine near to us and maybe they cause that noise floor.
High band conditions on Saturday were very good and we even logged US on 10m.
On Sunday not a single US station was heard on 15m and rather low US rates even
on 20m. Very nice Sunday evening 10m opening to Zone 8, 9 and 10.

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