Our team will kick off the 2009 season with our “as usual” participation from JO30EM:
2m: 750w, 4×9el
70cm: 600w, 8×11el
23cm: 200w, 2m dish
13cm: 40w, 2m dish
3cm: 10w, 70cm dish
We are looking forward to all the QSOs with you.
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!
First of all, this is post #100 on this page. I am very happy we made it that far, are attracting around 100 different viewers each day and there is no signs of it coming to an end. More contest participations of DR5A and more posts will follow :-).
For the upcoming september contest, we will again go up one notch higher than in July: This time we will combine our usual 4×9el vertically stacked yagi system with a second system of 4 vertically stacked BigWheel antennas, giving our positive July-experience with 2 BigWheels a 3dB boost :-). We hope to have much fun with that new system.
And finally, a nice surprise: According to the German DARC club journal “CQ-DL”, in June contest we made the best DX of all DL stations that sent in their log on 3cm: 617km with OE5VRL, followed by DM7A with a 610km QSO, and on 3rd place again us with 604km to OK1KJB. That was quite unexpected, as we do not feel we have a very good QTH for 3cm work. But when the clouds for RS are right, it just works :-).
We will participate in the upcoming May Contest from JO30EM again:
2m: 4×9el, 750w
70cm: 8×11el, 600w
23cm: 2m dish, 200w
13cm: 2m dish, 40w
3cm: 70cm dish, 10w
We hope to catch you in the contest!
We recorded the 2m QSOs during March Contest, and these are the QSOs > 750km:
I4VOS/4, JN54PF, 792km SSB [220kb]
OK2KJT, JN99AJ, 844km SSB [370kb]
OM3KII, JN88UU, 836km SSB [226kb]
OK2RKB, JN89JI, 757km SSB [483kb]
OM8A, JN87WV, 884km CW [539kb]
S57O, JN86DT, 836km CW not recorded!
OL9W, JN89UJ, 820km CW [1mb] not easy…
Well below the 750km limit, but very rare:
GU3TUX, IN89VR, 619km SSB [169kb]
If you are interested in how your signal sounded in JO30EM, just drop the webmaster a line, and i will try to extract our QSO from the recording. Unfortunately, we started the recording not before 1635 UTC, so all QSOs before that time are not recorded.
Our team meber Lars, DF1LON, will be QRV in the upcoming Marconi Memorial Contest from JO40BP (regular QTH of DF0OL) at about 660m ASL with a 12el yagi and 750w. Please give him a call.
Thanks to Martin, OK2GM, we got a recording of our signal on 23cm at OK2KYCs receiver. Impressive!
Without further ado, everything above 800km (audio quality is much worse than in september, as we were recording off an TS850 instead the FT1000):
OM50KHE, JN99JC, 904km SSB [217kb]
OK2KJT JN99AJ, 844km SSB [239kb]
I4LCK/4 JN54PD, 800km SSB [375kb]
OM1DK JN87UU, 875km SSB [206kb]
OM3TZQ JN98ET, 884km SSB [666kb]
OL7Q JN99FN, 869km SSB [244kb]
9A1CMS JN86DM, 855km CW [851kb]
OM5KV JN97BS, 907km CW [722kb]
OM5M JN88RS, 821km CW [405kb]
OM3W JN99CH, 857km CW [1070kb]
OK2KRT JN99CL, 853km CW [720kb]
HA5KDQ JN97LN, 973km CW [942kb]
HG5M JN97KW, 951km CW [709kb]
HG6V KN07AV, 1034km CW [871kb]
HA1KYY JN87FI, 816km CW [738kb]
OK2KYC JN99BM, 846km SSB [194kb]
OM7JG JN87WV, 884km CW [798kb]
YO2KJJ KN15AD, 1310km CW [813kb]
YO2BCT/p KN15AD, 1310km CW [970kb]
YO2GL KN05PS(?), 1224km CW, unfortunately incomplete [943kb]
OK2KCE JN89XX, 825km SSB [536kb]
OM3KVW JN88MH, 809km SSB [182kb]
DL1ECG uploaded his pictures of the September Contest. Enjoy.
Finally i prepared the audio snippets of all the DX-QSOs > 800km we made during the September Contest. During the night, we started to have some gaps and skips in the recording, so at times especially our CW sounds very distorted or plain wrong. That is only in the recordings, and not due to our faulty keying :-). Enjoy!
GM4ZUK/p IO86RW 922km SSB, becoming a regular (371kb)
OM3CQF JN88RT 820km SSB (231kb)
G4LOH IO70JC 824km SSB, with some intentional QRMing, but he easily beats it (164kb)
F8DBF IN78RI 825km mixed CW/SSB (602kb)
S57C JN76PB 825km SSB, rather weak (285kb)
SN9D JN99MQ 908km SSB, big signal! (181kb)
OM50KHE JN99JC 904km SSB, easy (309kb)
OM8A JN87WV 884km CW, not easy (797kb)
9A5Y JN85PO 977km CW (474kb)
S57O JN86DT 836km CW, not easy (958kb)
OK2KJT JN99AJ 844km SSB, quick’n'easy (177kb)
ED1RCM IN73TA 1167km SSB, not strong but on a clear QRG (272kb)
S51ZO JN86DR 842km CW unfortunately not recorded
OK2KYC JN99BM 846km CW (350kb)
Starting from here severe gaps and skips in the recordings:
OM3W JN99CG 859km CW (393kb)
OK2KRT JN99CL 853km CW (355kb)
OM3KOM JN98DV 875km CW (476kb)
OM3KII JN88UU 836km CW (452kb)
OM5M JN88SS 827km CW, a long long fight, but finally successful (1.21mb)
I4XCC JN63GV 871km SSB (255kb)
EA2BFM/p IN83FE 1109km SSB, strong! (270kb)
F5FLN/p IN94UT 807km SSB (225kb)
If your QRB to us is below 800km, but you want to know how you sounded at JO30EM, just drop me a line, and i will extract our QSO from our recordings.