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 :-).

Slowly catching up with this years contests, i now added some more fotos of May contest 2006 to our gallery. Enjoy!

(Finally) I added some of my pictures of our snowy March contest to our gallery. Enjoy!
And yes, soon i will upload pictures of May, June, July and even September :-).

The guys at OM3KHE again recorded our QSO in the September IARU VHF contest, and wow, we were really loud! :-)
Its nice to hear that from a point of view 904km away. For comparison: That is how they sounded at JO30EM.
Thank you for your recording! We hope too see you again in the October UHF contest.

We published the details of our IARU September VHF contest participation.
Pictures:

Thanks everyone for the QSOs. We recorded nearly the whole contest as MP3, and i will cut out the QSOs > 800km during the next day and publish them here.

UPDATE:
First audio sample is the (not complete) QSO with ED1OCV for roughly 1300km: ED1OCV IN63AR(?) 1318km SSB
QSOS > 800km:
14:48 UTC OZ6ABA JO57DJ 806km SSB
16:30 UTC GM4ZUK/p IO86RW 923km SSB
20:04 UTC OK2VMU JN99CO 850km SSB (not easy!)
22:05 UTC OM3KHE JN99JC 904km SSB (some QRM)
22:48 UTC OM3KII JN88UU 836km SSB
00:01 UTC TM8CDX/p IN94UT 807km SSB
00:14 UTC ED2EA IN93IA 1017km SSB
00:25 UTC EA2RL/p IN83FE 1109km SSB ODX!
01:43 UTC OM5M JN88SS 827km CW
01:50 UTC OM0C JN88VJ 858km CW
01:58 UTC 9A5Y JN85PO 977km CW
02:10 UTC OM8A JN87WV 884km CW
03:07 UTC OK2KJT JN99AJ 844km CW
03:58 UTC OK2KJU JN89SJ 808km SSB
04:02 UTC OK2PVF JN99JQ 890km SSB
04:16 UTC SN9D JN99MQ 908km CW
11:58 UTC OM3CQF JN88RT 820km SSB

If you worked DR5A for a QRB of less than 800km and you are interested in knowing how your signal sounded in JO30EM, just drop me a line at dl1ely@dr5a.de and i will send you the sound snippet of our QSO.

Ordering a second 2m antenna coupler for four yagis seemed to be an easy task…But the first supplier promised to deliver, but finally could not deliver on time, other suppliers had none on stock. Finally we found a source for a second one, and Chris, DK2CRN, fetched it this evening. So now we are able to set up two 4×9el vertically stacked yagis in the upcoming September contest.

…the movement of dr5a.de to a new, more powerful server is finished and went without any severe problems :-). If you notice anything that does not work as expected, please drop me a line.

Very soon, this page will (again) move to another server, hopefully now for a longer time. So please bear with us if the page is not reachable during some of the next days. While the move itself will not take too long (i hope), it takes some time (1-2 days) until all DNS-servers notice that dr5a.de is now pointing to another, new IP.