51,511 QSOs and 14,897,666 km covered distance since March 1998

September 2008

This year, Murphy decided not to visit our equipment, but our “human resources”. Gregor, DH6JR, had to visit the hospital due to gall bladder problems on saturday, and unfortunately had to stay there. We hope he will recover soon and join our team again in October. On the hardware side, everything went smooth, and we used our two systems of 4×9el and 4x Big Wheels (vertically stacked) to fight against mediocre conditions. The final result is very similar to the two previous years with the usual bunch of DX from 9A, HA, OM, S5, GM, SP and I, but only the well-known big guns. Finally, we missed the 700-QSO-barrier only by a hair. On the downside: only one SM station, only 4 OZ, and activity from PA and ON is on a further decline. We have some audio snippets of the contest online.