Bad luck for our group in this contest: A coax connector in our 4way-divider up at the antennas burnt away slowly and barely noticable until 6am UTC in the morning, when it got replaced finally. Certainly, the lost points could not be recovered during the last hours of the contest, leaving us with an unsatisfying result again. While there were nice lifted conditions with unusual QSOs to GW, GI and EI, easterly directions were disappointing. See all the details here.

Now we are looking forward to the October UHF/SHF/Microwave Contest to finish a contest season that could have been really better this time.

Interesting QSOs:
EI5FK, IO51RT, 1049km SSB, ODX
GI6ATZ, IO74AJ, 939km SSB (a bit chaotic)
YU1BAA, JN94SD, 1218km SSB, MS-Burst? - incomplete!