In the German Contest Trophy 2008, multi-operator section, we finish 6th. This is the worst result of the last years, despite piling up more and more points every year: Competition gets tougher, and we are surpassed by other stations putting much effort in this trophy. Still, we are the best-ranked station running only 5 bands, while the stations in front of us are running much more microwave-bands or even laser-light communication. So, we have to be still satisfied. We are using our winter break now for some improvements and replacement of broken/worn out things, and will happily return in 2009 for another year of VHF/UHF/SHF/Microwave-Contesting from JO30EM. Stay tuned for DR5A!

The German October UHF Contest Results are out for some days now. And for the first time ever, we won 23cm MO! Taking advantage of the bad luck of DL0GTH, who had to abort contest operation from their site on sunday morning, we could also keep the strong crew of DM7A behind us, who did some more QSOs, but suffered from a much worse average. We did not only win, but also completed the 5 best ODX-QSOs reported in DL, all beating the ODX of DL0GTH with 788km. We really did not expect that, and by that we get rewarded for our hard work in rewiring the transceivers to keep 23cm on the air after we lost the HF-transceiver we use together with our 23cm transverter.