This year, we started into October contest with low expectations: Weather forecast was terrible. But finally, we got away in a relatively nice way: Setting up all the antennas was all completed in time during a windy and rather cold saturday morning and early afternoon, but with many sunny intervals and just little rain. Setting up the new UMTS-data-connection via an USB-stick proved to be more difficult than expected, and so finally some minutes before the start of the contest we fell back to our old method of using a USB-connected mobile phone instead of the stick.
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In the German results of September VHF contest, we scored a very satisfying 6th place out of 92 participants, our best rank since 2001. Obviously, our 4x Big Wheel stacked 2nd system payed off. Now we are looking forward to the October UHF contest, where despite the rather bad weather forecast, we will again be QRV on 70cm, 23cm, 13cm and 3cm from JO30EM.