And once more, we will try our very best to be successful in the upcoming VHF Contest. The available team is very small, but is only one band on the other hand, so we will cope.

We will run 4×9el vertically stacked, and in parallel selectable 15el cushcraft or 2 stacked BigWheels. We are excited to see what will be the “better” 2nd antenna. Like last year, we try to record the whole contest as MP3, we hope it will work well. Look for us around 144.182MHz, and see you in the QRM :-).

The german results of the July contest are out. The scores on 2m were surprisingly low, so that we were only 55k points behind the winner. On the other bands, the margins were much bigger, and on 3cm DL0GTH and DM7A outclassed their competition by scoring more than 5 times more points than the runner-up on place 3. Impressive! In the german contest trophy, we could secure our 4th place behind DL0GTH, DM7A and DF0MTL. It looks like as if the 4th place will be for us this year.

After some tries, they did it: G4LOH IO70JC and D44TD HK86NO set a new record for 2m tropo range in the IARU Region 1: 4049km. Congrats, boys, well done.

You want to see where DR5A is located? Just use Google Earth and have a look at this .kmz-file where i marked our QTH. The area has quite a nice resolution, and the farmer is working on the neighbouring field while the pictures have been taken. Enjoy!