We will be QRV in the upcoming June Microwave Contest from JO30EM @ 620m ASL.

Equipment:
23cm: 200w into 2m dish
13cm: 40w into 2m dish
3cm: 10w into 70cm dish

We are reachable in the european DX-Cluster network, wwconv and ON4KST.
We hope to see you in the contest.

After he heavily supported us during March contest, and did his first, very successful operating in May contest, we are introducing our newest team member: Gerald, DO7GG. Despite of him being only 14 years old, he did many DX QSOs on 2m, 70cm and 3cm in May in a very professional way. We are happy to have him in the team and hope that he will stay with us for a long time. Welcome, Gerald.

We have new pictures online:
Some older ones from the March contest, and a bunch from the May contest. Enjoy!

May contest was one with mixed feelings. We enjoyed some nice weather and everything seemed to be alright until we tried to transmit on 2m and discovered a fault in our FT-1000MP TRX. Repair attempts of over 2 hours led to a late start on 2m at 14:33 UT. Shortly after that, 13cm died (again) after just one QSO. Taking down the antenna and trying to solve the problem cost another 2 hours of operating time on 23cm. We could not get 13cm back to work (needless to say that it works again flawlessly when tested at home, grrrr).

2m was generally slow in terms of QSOs, and so we finished with a rather meager number of QSOs and score, but nice tropo conditions to Scandinavia brought big fun. 7 LA and 9 SM are new all-time-bests. Thanks to Stefan, LA0BY, for nice tropo ODXs on 2m and 70cm. The south-LA beacons had a really big signal starting saturday evening. But beside that, the usual “East-South-East”-path worked well, with stations like 9A5Y, SN9D, OM50KHE, OM8A, OK2KRT, OM3KII, OM5M (all > 800km) in the log. 70cm was working out very well, with a very satisfying score, and 4 LAs in the log! We even worked S5 on 70cm, a rather rare event. 23cm was also quite nice regarding the circumstances: 3 OZ stations in the log also show the nice conditions to the north. 3cm was quite normal, except for the exceptional tropo QSO with OZ1FF, giving us a new tropo ODX by far, wow!

You can see the details here.

As usual, our team will be QRV in the upcoming May contest from JO30EM @ 620m ASL:

2m: 750w + 4×9el
70cm: 600w + 8×11el
23cm: 200w + 2m dish
13cm: 40w + 2m dish
3cm: 10w + 70cm dish

We hope to see you in the contest.

The results of the 2006 IARU Reg. I VHF contest are out. We achieved a satisfying 19th place out of 205 participants.