I added new detailed statistics for the June and July contests. These were missing up to now as i had planned to work on them for quite a long time. During the next days, i will further improve and extend these statistics, and will replace the details on the older contests with this new one. The new statistics are not generated by software and pasted into the pages anymore, but dynamically taken from a database of all our contest QSOs and generated on the fly. As you can imagine, having all QSOs in a database opens up a whole new world of possibilities for the web site, including top-lists of QSOs on different bands, multi-contest statistics, a search for calls or locators in our database, and so on. I am determined to incorporate all that into the page in the near future. Stay tuned.

And while you are at it, and perhaps addicted to HF contesting, too: Give our team members DF1LON and DK2CRN a call in the upcoming IOTA-contest when they will operate CT9L from Madeira Island.

I just updated the underlying wordpress-installation to the newest version 2.6. That was quite a big and delicate task, but everything seems to work alright. If you notice anything unusual or something that does not work as expected, please let me know, thank you.

We recorded our 70cm RX during July contest (2m did not work this time, sorry), and here are the QSOs > 750km as audio snippet. We could not record our own transmissions, so they are cut out from the recording, you are only hearing the other station, without the silence while we are transmitting.

OK2KJT, JN99AJ, 844km SSB [96kb]
I4LCK/4, JN54PD, 800km SSB [198kb]
IZ4BEH, JN54WL, 789km SSB [213kb]
I4AMD, JN64CI, 814km SSB [217kb]
OL9W, JN99CL, 853km SSB [230kb]
OK2KOJ, JN89HB, 753km SSB [89kb]
OK2KYZ, JO80NB, 765km SSB [241kb]
OK2KYC, JN99BM, 846km SSB [466kb]
OM8A, JN87WV, 884km CW [319kb]
OM5M, JN88RS, 821km CW [190kb]
OM3KII, JN88UU, 836km SSB [193kb]
OM3W, JN99CH, 857km SSB [163kb]
OE3A, JN77XX, 751km SSB [214kb]

I uploaded our claimed scores here. The contest was very nice with good scores on 2m, 70cm and 23cm, but again our 13cm preamplifier broke at the very beginning, so that we could only work very local QSOs < 100km. On 2m, activity from G, OK, HB9 and OZ was great, like in other July events, too. We used a second antenna system (2x Big Wheel) with some success, and plan to enlarge that system to 4x Big Wheel in future contests. On 2m and 70cm our average points-per-QSO was the best ever, and on 23cm we could set a new high score for a July contest, while enjoying the 2nd best average points-per-QSO ever. The weather was quite fine too, making it a nice and enjoyable contest (beside for the broken 13cm preamplifier).

DARC has published the German June Contest results. We scored a very satisfying 3rd place on 23cm and 2nd place on 13cm, and a 6th place on 3cm is very nice, too. In the German Contest Trophy, we could gain some points towards 5th place.