We have some pictures of June Contest online. Enjoy!

After some delay, i prepared the QSOs > 800km from our 2m May Contest audio recording. If ou are less than 800km away from us, but want to know how you sounded in JO30EM, drop me a line and i will mail you your audio snippet.

OM5M, JN88RS, 821km SSB [242kb]
TK5EP/P, JN42QX, 870km CW [517kb]
OM3W, JN99CH, 857km SSB [189kb]
OK2KCE, JN89XX, 825km CW [576kb]
S57O, JN86DT, 836km CW [765kb]
OK2KJT, JN99AJ, 844km CW [346kb]
OL9W, JN99CL, 853km CW [289kb]
SN9D, JN99MQ, 908km CW [304kb]
OM3KII, JN88UU, 836km CW [268kb] loud!
9A9SF, JN65UF, 803km SSB [336kb]
OK2KJU, JN89SJ, 808km CW [549kb]

Enjoy!

During June microwave contest, we also took part in the IARU-Region-I-CW-Fieldday as DR5A/p. DF1LON killed some of his free time with some enjoyable CW QSOs.

Claimed score:

Band  Mode  QSOs    Pts  Cty
1,8  CW      14      56    3
3,5  CW      83     274   18
  7  CW     150     447   25
 14  CW     103     320   27
 21  CW      16      52   10
 28  CW      18      54   11
Total  Both   384    1203   94

           Score : 113.082
             Rig : TS-850 100w

        Antennas : 2x20m Doppelzepp

The German May Contest results are out, and while the results on 2m, 23cm, 13cm and 3cm are average or below average in the case of 2m, we won 70cm Multi-OP in Germany! While 70cm went really well, we did not expect this, and we enjoyed the pleasant surprise. In the German Contest Trophy, we stay on place 6 of 136 participants.

You can find our raw numbers here. In short it was a very nice contest with a very good 23cm result, nice DX to the east, a new square IN88 on 23cm, the first QSO with Italy on 23cm, and many new bests on 13cm: Most QSOs ever, best score ever, best average ever, most squares ever, and a new All-time-ODX with OM3W JN99CH 856km, wo called us on 23cm (we worked him before) to arrange a sked for 13cm, and who appeared on 13cm after our first CQ with a real 539 on the s-meter…steady! Incredible! The previous All-time-ODX was more than 100km lower…3cm enjoyed light rainscatter on saturday with some 300km QSOs, and better rainscatter conditions on sunday with nice DX to OK and OE, but not many stations to work. The scatter was available for a long time, but no new stations appeared or answered our CQs. But at least we could improve our All-Time ODX on 3cm from well below 550km to 616km with OE5VRL/5.

Everything worked fine and flawlessly, so Murphy was around somewhere else, obviously…