We're back! After missing the September IARU-VHF contest, DLØGTH was QRV again with big setup from Mt. Schneekopf in JO50JP.

Weather forecast was not promising: after a week with beautiful sunshine the weekend was forecasted as rainy and windy. But we were in luck this time! On a calm and sunny Friday afternoon we could start with setting up the first two 70cm antennas. We continued works on Saturday in bright sunshine and finished a liitle bit late on the microwaves due to several technical issues. Then everything went normal while the nice weather turned into a foggy, rainy and stormy evening. The night was really restless due to strong wind gusts proofing our masts and ropes. Sunday wasn't better either, completing a couple of microwave QSOs from tripods was no fun at all! The rest of the crew (warm and dry inside the vans) enjoyed a stunning head-to-head race with DR9A which kept us busy until the end of competition. And again we were in luck: bad weather stops right when we started dismantling the station at Sunday afternoon. Results were excellent on 70cm, a little bit below expectations on the microwaves. Maybe caused by lack of activity due to Corana restrictions.

Special highlight was a 24GHz contact with DR9A over 279km which is now our all time ODX on this band. Listen to our big signal, recorded @ DR9A:   

 

Claimed scores:

Band QSOs WWLoc DXCC Points km/QSO ODX Call ODXLoc
144 MHz - - - - - - - -
432 MHz 702 88 18 215013 306 977 YU1LA KN04
1,3 GHz 211 52 17 59837 283 864 SM6VTZ JO58
2,3 GHz 73 32 12 20168 276 837 HA8V KN06
3,4 GHz 24 14 3 5153 214 684 G3XDY JO02
5,7 GHz 19 11 3 3677 193 537 OK2C JN99
10 GHz 39 21 6 8393 215 581 IK3GHY JN65
24 GHz 8 4 2 995 124 279 DR9A JN48
47 GHz - - - - - - - -
76 GHz 2 1 1 74 37 37 DB6NT JO50
122 GHz 2 1 1 74 37 37 DB6NT JO50
135 GHz 2 1 1 74 37 37 DB6NT JO50
Laser - - - - - - - -

 

 Crew photo:

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