OK2A - IARU UHF Contest 2018               Version:          
- or how we did not won again :-)

(fast translation via Google tool -> sorry for poor English)

Hattrick in Field Field positively tune us because not only the proven equipment, but also the good weather forecast and the operator's strengthening of our Dirka ON5GS party promised the OK2A dignified participation in this contest. But, you know - man means, and reality is different.
 

About 10 days before the contest, the DM7A guys wrote that they will not be able to build and leave everything at Fichtelberg at this year's UHF Contest, and whether we would mind if they came to us and strengthen our ranks "midrange" and microwaves up to 47GHz. Of course we like to agree, We've been together a couple of times and we know they're cool friends.

From the innovations before the contest, we need to mention the upgrading of our 10GHz device that received a waveguide relay and a new LNA with a waveguide input, from which we promised better reception, because RS condx is not expected in October and every dB noise figure is quite felt on the receiver. It was not nearly as simple as it would seem at first glance, the waveguide relay had nonmetallic threads and its dimensions prevented installation in the original mechanics, but eventually everything with the help of AF4JF, OK1FPC and Narex Bučovice managed to solve the Wednesday before the contest. Unfortunately, there was no time to measure the RF power that built-in small PA supplies to the waveguide nor measure the noise figure, but the device survived the contest successfully and did not get worse than the current circuitry with the SMA relay. And even some tropo QSOs - like S5 that we did not manage to do in previous contests - suggest that some improvement has yet to take place. But we will only evaluate after measuring this hardware.

With 3 and 23 cm of masts, a new bearing was used for anchoring so that the cables to the antenna no longer need to twist over the anchors (which brought us a hot moment in this year's Pollen ..). There was also a sophisticated method of anchoring a 3 cm truss mast using 5 anchors and 2 m anchoring pipes, which also allowed us to build a 10m long mast with a heavy parabola and a transverter smoothly on a round bunker.

On Friday evening, when David and Jark arrived OK1KN, thanks to Tomas and OK1JJI, all 70cm antennas and a 3cm mast hung. The weather was beautiful, downward inversion, above sunny and about 17 ° C, which is really unique in October in the Ore Mountains. Even with only about 150 meters above sea level between Ryzovna and the top of the hill on our Thursday midnight arrival, we created a temperature gradient of + 6 ° C and it is not very low. On Friday morning, there was also a nice inversion line around the JV, but the wind was blown later, so no tropo condx took place in the contest. The guys from DM7A arrived late Friday night and Janek (DM3JAN) was so tempted to sleep under the starry sky to resist and sleep outside.

In the morning we quickly built 23cm antennas and in a while there were three more poles - one for 13 + 9 + 6cm, the other for 24GHz and the third for the microwave bandwidth to carry antennas for 144 / 432MHz. Matej built relatively fast and seamlessly all the equipment at 23 and 70 cm and at 4 o'clock we were ready to go. The contest was pretty good for the first few hours, with 70C for the first 2 hours of record 175QSO, and Matej did not stay at 23cm and Jarek at 10GHz.

A bit worse it was at 13cm, it seemed that the boys did not listen as well as they were broadcasting (about 70W in the antenna) and so a number of dropped QSOs ended so that the counter stations hear us, but we can not hear them. Damage. However, the 9cm band worked beautifully, surprisingly surprised by the reflection from the aircraft at distances over 700km! Perhaps this band OK radio amateurs after defying 6cm (the result of interference from WIFI operators) defend!

An eight o'clock in the evening, just when he came to see the place of his OK1BAF actions, our most recent 70cm dual PA was out of the box, which I described after Field Day. A quick survey brought an unpleasant discovery that there was no defect in PA's power circuits but that it was a malfunctioning exciter (both PA units are running at the same time), so we had half power at the output. And of course it does not forgive the competitor of a much better equipped opponent! Since then, we have begun to lose noticeably in the contest. At least, I quickly installed a small PA with GI7b, which gives about 250W to run some power into a heavily used 8x10el Y stack, but the SV stack had to stay out of the signal until the end of the contest ... We were half chromium and the second half of the antennae limping. And it is no wonder that, despite all the efforts of our operators, we have not succeeded in defending a good lead over our competitors, eliminating any possible temptation. Shame!

After the night shift OK1DIX sat on the "oar" 70s on Sunday, most of the Dirk ON5GS and although he fluently speaks English, German, French and, of course, the Flemish, he has richly won, but he managed to build some nice QSOs to OK and OM. We thank the bosses for their patience with his imperfect Czech, hi. On Sunday afternoon, after an early partial improvement of the conditions - over 500 QSO to 70cm and> 200 QSO to 23cm, some improvement indicates, water clouds clouded, and although this meteorological phenomenon can not be called rain, the result was that moisture condensed on all, which meant a high additional descent in the west and northwest, where our signals were bent in the dense vegetation of coniferous trees in the forest in the direction of Blatenský vrch , which carried a ton of water. And breaking through our performances through this flood all the way around did not work well. Sorry.

And finally, we've also "moistened" ourselves in composing antennas. I have rusty tools, hi. Because in October, in addition to the clouds, it is already dark, we stopped the pack and after the departure of the others we were supposed to stay in the four on Monday. Around 10h the mist rose, the sun dried up, so we finished the pack and went home about 13h. The mountains were beautiful and the mists were rolling in the valleys. Surely it would be good at that moment. But we will wait for the next 70cm contest until next year.

No, in this contest we did not repeat hat trick victory on 70 + 23 + 3cm bands, but at the same time we do not feel that we grossly underestimate something and that we have difficulty deserve ourselves by our stupidity or laziness. And so we returned home with a good mood - and if we're going to be healthy, we'll be back next time on the band again!

73 by OK1VPZ

PS: A few days after the contest, I identified the cause of the 70cm exciter's failure - it was a slider on the SMD stabilizer 7805 that took the exciting transistor into the "eternal fishery". The entire SMD board driver board was soldered in Japan.

                                                                                     Lada OK1DIX:

What to write to this year's UHF Contest? Socially very successful affair with international participation. The bad luck we picked a bit at the end to 70cm, but again after a long time OK2A called on all UHF / SHF bands up to 47 GHz.

With XYL OK1DYX We have traditionally set off on a hill on Thursday, but this time until the evening, so from preparation we just managed to catch a bowl of the proven lager from the Mlýn Brewery before dark. After dark, Karel OK1FLY and OK1VPZ arrived with OK1TEH. On Friday, others started to come. Especially our Belgian friend Dirk ON5GS and my mast co-worker Tomas with YL. Then Ivan OK1DAQ, who was also joined by his XYL Blanka and finally Jarek OK1KN with David OK1RK.
Friday's build of 70 cm antennas took place in concert with Tomáš on the mast and OK1DAQ on the ground and thanks to the help of OK1JJI and his friends Radka and Michal in the already established order, with only a little delay due to welding the torn nut on the top of the mast.

Antennas also this time tested by the sitemaster with the usual statement that WIMO 10 el. yagi are no big win. Still, we were able to build 3cm on the bunker, where the new building system was premiered to provide more security and less people needed to build (see photo). But because this was the first time, the tuning of some details took longer, so we left 23cm in the morning due to twilight.

In the evening, we welcomed our DM7A colleagues who were unable to develop their usual Fichtelberg assembly due to a smaller number this time and strengthen our team significantly. Then there was a time for toasted laks from Majka, OK1DYX and fun with a truly international flame, as well as a tasting of all kinds of beers that the participants brought.

On Saturday, there were 23cm antennas and DM7A boys with a little use of our infrastructure built one mast with 13cm, 9cm, 6cm, special with 24GHz and auxiliary with 2m antenna. Hartmuth, DG2DWL then unpacked a 47 GHz tripod and thus covered the band completely.

Both device connection and rectification of the 70cm antennas were made without any problems, but this time we were dismayed by computers. First, networking with the PLC did not work even though the new modems showed good interconnections. The error turned out to be in the wrong Ethernet cable. Then, the LTE modem did not work for a long time. Matej finally conjured up after many resets and manipulations. Just before the start of the contest, there was an unexpected problem when they launched a new version of AirScoute on the network at the DM7A workplace. It seems that the new version sometimes sends unexpected packets over the network. As a bad luck, VUSC was forgotten to activate diagnostic error messages, and they began to pop up in abundant numbers at all workplaces. In a few minutes before the contest, I had to compile and run a run-free version at the workplace and the contest could begin. I will continue to investigate this AirScoute behavior and build the VUSC as soon as possible.

 At 70cm, the development of about 18 UTC disturbed the driver for two PAs in both stacks of 8x10. We lost half the power and two directions. OK1VPZ later in the evening, a small PA 250W was put into the southern stack. A few hours later, he managed to switch the control so that he could at least listen to the second stack without PA. Nevertheless, development has become apparent, as can be seen in statistics. After a promising start with 89 QSO for the first hour and 155 for the first 2 hours, the pace fell sharply. In the hour from 18 to 19 UTC, only 21 QSO and less than 8000 points. Later on, the deterioration of conditions also occurred. On Saturday, they were raised and walked mainly Z and S. They called more apparently small stations from DL and locators JN39, JO30 and JO31 and HB and several PA, SM and OZ. Later G and ON. On Sunday morning, however, the clouds came out of which they lived, and the conditions due to the water splashed in the spruces around the area worsened on Sunday.

Due to the participation of Dirk ON5GS, I was overnight at 70cm, so it was rather a V and JV. It is worth mentioning with a nice HA8V signal (701 km). In the morning it improved and so the F5FL came from Paris (764 km). Then I sit down for a while in the morning, surprising the nice signal of Maurice F6DKW (784 km) and TM6T (781 km) even in unfavorable weather. More details will be reported in the main operators of this band - Dirk and David. In spite of all the problems, 501 QSOs and over 170 ths. points that do not look bad, but it's the second worst result in the past five years after last year's hardcore rain and storm competition. But there is not a year of worship every year.

I still helped Jark, OK1KN to 3cm, but in the absence of RS it was not so much fun. Nevertheless, 48 ​​valid QSOs and nearly 13,000 points have been achieved, which promises to lead the way. It is worth mentioning tropo with DF0HS / P to JO31 (481 km), DF0MU (428 km), IK3HGY (544 km), PI4GN (532 km) and 9A1CMS (503 km). It is a pity that he missed SM7ECM (589 km). On our side, I had everything, but he did not receive the code from us, and he ended the connection.

On Saturday night, I also watched the "microwave wizard" DG2DWL irritate 47 GHz. The technique of linking is really very different from the lower bands. Both azimuth and elevation routing must be very precise, so a telescope attached to a tripod is also used. Eventually, QSO with OK1KAD will be successful in Klinovec and OK1OPT, OK3RM and ODX DL0GTH on Sunday for 145 km! And without a free field profile! In the other bands, our DM7A colleagues and our insignificant dimensions also perform very well. In addition to 13cm, there was some kind of fault on the RX that could not be eliminated, so the receiver was not sensitive enough (sorry for their names on those who did not). The results on the 9cm and 6cm bands were great with the hope of being the highest.

After the contest, we are waiting for a permanent coinage and a cold, but fortunately without a bigger wind. As our long-time but very busy member Honza arrived on Saturday, OK1BAF and Tomas had to leave, he was my co-worker on the mast this time. He was a really helpful helper, and thanks to Jard, OK1JJI to his two friends who came back to help, we have everything in the good time, so before the twilight we can load the antennas and the masts on the wheelchair so that they do not lie in the wet grass.

We are talking to Dirk, ON5GS and colleagues from DM7A and most others, including XYL Majka, OK1DYX, which must be in QRL morning. OK1VPZ, OK1TEH, OK1FLY and I stay until Monday morning to pack and also prepare a winter hut. There is no place to hurry, fogs are reported and so, around noon, we are leaving home for sunny weather.

What at the end? Despite some technical problems, a successful contest. Abundant and international attendance and coverage up to 47 GHz have provided an excellent experience. Just more.

73! Lada, OK1DIX

Fred DH5FS:

Nice activity with our friend from OK2A again! We enjoyed this contest as well as the good Czech beer. Our 13cm was a bit deaf, 10-15dB missing as tests with our local beacon from Dresden (DM0TUD) were showing. This was easy possible with our duoband system for 9/13cm, the 9cm beacon was abt S3, the 13cm beacon only in the noise. So the result on 13cm suffered a bit. Anyway, the fun did not.

73 Fred

Dirk ON5GS:

Hello all, it's been my 5th yearly contest with OK2A, and boy it's getting better every time! Since the fixed tower is installed 3 years ago, the number of antennas for 70cm seems to grow exponentional and operating a station like this feels like being a big gun on 144MHz, thanks to all the nice (homebrew) gear. Putting up the station went very relaxed and routinious, and WX was perfect! Also the team from Dresden had a nice setup, and i was given a grand tour inside the mobile shack, which is self-provising green power! Thanks again friends, for the nice weekend! Vlada i hope your twin-PA will be an easy-fix, as i think you did a great job constructing it. Cu next time in march from ON8CF/P JO20SS also above 2m in 2019!

73 Dirk ON5GS

David OK1RK:

LThis year's UHF competition was a sign of pleasant autumn weather. There was a nice company on the hill, including a bunch of "dudrows" (OK1JJI & Co.), who helped us with the construction and dismantling of all the iron.

A minor flaw in beauty was a technology failure, when a rather promising start and a nice pileup with a constant supply of stations from all directions, the new PA left. The two 8x10 el. Powerless stacks were left, the 12x6 western and the 38 el. M2. In the southern (90 ° -220 °) 8 x 10 el stack after a while he managed to release at least some of the original exciter with the GI7B, but it was far from such a contesthorse. Well, ambition we leave for another time and we go on. This time, Dirk and Lada had drove the boat and we all enjoyed a nice weekend stay in the mountains. The presence of boys from DM7A with all the parabola of casting shapes and diameters. It was a model freundschaftbesuch, as the colorful brochure about the EU. Maybe we could apply for a grant from the MMR next time :-)

And since no one in his detailed reports or a slogan talked about a mega pot of honest beef goulash that I created during a Thursday nightless sleep of five pounds of honest plywood and cow slack, that's what I do. The hard work went off, and the faces of the cheerful cheerleaders were deserving (and disgustingly honest).

Bottom line, comfort ... just in Belgium the forgotten alt saxophone and guitar perhaps lacking in perfection, this time the weather would surely allow us to produce music until late at night.
rk

Matej OK1TEH:

While some of the clubs are the culmination of the VHF racing season in the September VHF Contest or Field Day, this is definitely a October contest at 70cm and above. This time we received an offer from DM7A friends if we did not try to do a joint action with plans to be active on all bands from 432MHz to 47GHz. In the past, we've been broadcasting from Spaleniště together and so we were clearly for. In addition, Dirk, ON5GS visited us again after a year, and so we were really multicultural. The plan for the contest was this time after the unfortunate events of the Field Day, when we pulled out the connector, invented an improvement of the anchor system and the coax mount on microwaves, made a smaller upgrade of one of the antennas to 23cm, and above all a major upgrading of the device to 3cm. Of these plans, we have unfortunately not been able to upgrade 23cm in time. For microwaves OK1VPZ has developed a brand new anchoring system that allows a coaxial cable to be secured between the pertinax swivel ring and the mast. At 3cm it was planned to test the exchange of SMA relay with a new US waveguide relay from PA0EHG (TNX) and a new waveguide LNA (DU3BC) with a declared noise figure of 0.5dB. I bought the components long ago, but a key issue was to solve the non-human question, where we use only a small original box from Alcoma. Another problem was when it was time before the contest to get the Withwort screws into the relay. In spite of all these problems, OK1VPZ managed to finish the new 3cm on the night before Thursday, and since we do not have a properly equipped laboratory capable of measuring SWR or noise figure at home, I did just a quick RX test on a weak lighthouse from Montenegro SR6XHC, whether the plant survives the contest. It survived. Their premiere at the plant also featured new PLC modems with higher performance and a new version of the VUSC.

From Thursday to Monday, I took the day off to handle all of our action, while not falling. Already in the middle of the evening I took the hardest 40kil 70cm SSPA from the dome, packed until 2am in the morning to put the work wake up in the morning 6h, transported on the stairs of our 400kg devices, removed from the LNA roof from the box on the antenna, not to mention buying some of those food and lifebuilders. After about 8h and to help Karel, OK1FLY, we finally could unusually early afternoon (already at 3h!) Get out of Prague for our racing caravan. However, in 80 km distant barn, where sometimes the journey takes weak hour's time we took about threefold since the highway was morning Reaper and the D11 was about 20 km in length totally zasekaná motorcade .. After about 160 km trip to the caravan and we return to Prague so despite all the efforts on the hill they went out into the darkness .. The weather seemed to be quite solid on Krušné hory and even we recorded a significant temperature inversion, when the north side under the hill was an outside temperature of -2 ° C, while on 150m higher Spáleníšti up to + 4 ° C. On the hill, OK1DYX / OK1DIX and Karel, OK1FLY, were waiting for us, so we already had a "burned" stove and a dropped barrel with the Lada's special drought beer (TNX).

On Friday morning, after a light morning exhumation, we started the next contest to position as many masts and antennas as possible before dark. In October, the lights are no longer so much in the evening, and there are plans to change microwaves. Fortunately, Dirk ON5GS, Ivan OK1DAQ arrived early on the hill (after a night drive) and finally Tomas with his YL. The first step was to get a welder to the top of the mast and weld a torn screw that holds the 12x6el stacking roller. We did not have enough of this operation, so stack raising did not happen until Friday after lunch. When we finally had all the 270 el. antennae at 70cm, the sun was already approaching the horizon, and it was clear that building microwaves would be hectic. Fortunately, we arrived in the evening to help young Jarda OK1JFB.

Testing the new lifting system of a 17kg weighing device at 3cm up to a height of 12m above the ground required first to test the construction of the mast for a dirty parabola, measuring the anchors and then 3cm to focus on the now-stellar sky with the assistance of the just-standing Climlians. Outside there was a scythe with temperature only weak to zero, but we were burned with intense UV radiation, our head was blown off by the icy wind, and we had enough of it. So we went out to the bunker with the caravan and we left the antenna equipment on 23cm until Saturday. Personally, I was returning to a 400-meter-long barrack spiraling like a jargon that this time I did not have the strength of another 3h build device for 70cm, just letting get a PA flask with GS31 and devoted to the fire operation. The majority of the frozen staff headed for our "hearth of sovereignty" in the leeward side of the barracks, and so the traditional "das Kulturprogramm" could be finally broken, to the exclusion of Dirk's saxophone. Before midnight, friends from DM7A arrived on the hill, and the pleasant stay continued. We have discussed various things, such as Norbert DL1SUN's activity / health status, which has been recovering for a long time from a stroke similar to Standa OK1MS. We're holding both inches to get back on band again! By the way, when observing the starry sky, there was an unusually high bolid activity (which I learned when I came home) which belonged to the unexpected outburst of the Drakonid meteoric shower.

On Saturday morning I was not easy, but it was necessary to get into the technology of our 4 directions to 70 cm. After about 3 hours of effort, it was finally completed successfully and in the meantime the guys already raised the antenna on the bunker to 23cm. At 11h, I was finally on the bunker and I could start plugging all the devices starting with PA, rotators and ending with the computer network. For a long time, it has been required to work with a new PLC system - as is well known, reading the manual is the latest desperate attempt to put such a device into operation - until a defect in the embedded ethernet cable, uff. Fourth hour before the start of the contest, it seemed to be finally over, so the guys from DM7A first tried to run the AirScout server. Unfortunately, due to a minor software error, the multicast transfer of aircraft positions caused the fall of the whole network of VUSC diaries and in 5 minutes 12 Lada had to repair the SW, compile the EXAC and then run the surrounding workplace and quickly upload the corrected version, uff.

Start of contest:

At 23 cm I started about 6 minutes late and there were another problems with the oscillator on the 24 GHz band that Steffen operated in our caravan. There was a problem with Jarek with a computer on the 3cm, around the caravan running around other people, something that just wanted some bugs now, and David wrote to me to get him ON4KST chat .. Beginning then nothing much, in the first hour I managed to UHF Contest to do only a weak 25 QSO however at least with the ODX of the contest - SM6VTZ JO58 893km :-) But then finally "opened or suddenly got rid of such a thing" :-). Not good, but it was not like that, but all of a sudden it went off as it should, the log filled with a good number of stations and finally I could enjoy the contest. I had a little worry about the 13cm performance, what would our LTE modem say, which was as high as we took the signal from a long distance on the hill, but in the end everything worked as it should. Connecting to serial number 100 I did at 19:01, which was about 2.5h earlier than in the contest a year ago, so it seemed that maybe it would be possible to cross the border of 200 QSO. There were traditional stations in the log, such as M1CRO / P 819km, G3XDY 827km, even SM7GVF 746km and others. It was also a pleasure to join the Grand Ballon with TM5AHO, unfortunately the conditions were not good despite anything good, nothing wrong, it was going wrong towards OM. At 3cm, for example, we were not able to do the OM6A for the first time after many years, while the OM3KII went quite nicely. It was not much about the OK station activity. After midnight I can continue with a nice line of SP stations and the HB9DWK points. However, due to a slower start, DL0GTH at that time had a "brutal" margin 38 QSOs. At night, it stopped blowing completely, and even though the outside temperature was not too high, the caravan could easily be warmed to a comfortable temperature, so I had a very good sleep. The log with 147QSO is shining at that time.

After about 4h of sleep, I get up again and continue the OK / SP link line. It's just a shame that the ON4KST does not come as SP6FBE or SP9WZJ. They like stations such as OZ9PZ 684km or PA3CSG, F6DKW 784km and Ivan, YU1LA 853km, later also SM6CEN 780km. Morning conditions were a bit better towards OM and managed QSO with Michal from OM3RBS, I could hear how he called me at one moment OM5KV, maybe next time. Before Jarek arrived, I also moved to 3cm, where I did some nice QSOs. When I returned to 23 cm, we had a connection with the G4CDN after lunch, which we planned for the EME2018 (TNX) in the Netherlands in August. Unfortunately, the activity in SM, OZ and F was not too high, there were no fixes such as SM7DTE, SM7GEP, OZ9KY, OZ2OE, OZ1FF, OZ3ZW, SP1JNY and others. It was also weaker with activity in Italy and France (where was F1AZJ, for example)? Fortunately, a good activity was in PA / ON, but it was a pity that no heavy clouds filled with water came around noon and the Krušnohorské vlezlé sychravo started, which always causes microwaves to sink due to the water saturation of the higher trees. Before the end of the contest, with IK4ADE 701km, I3VWK and I was pleased to have done the 3Z3Z for the first time. Four minutes to the end of the contest came a few nice QSOs to DL, HB9XC 556km, and DL4EBW in the last minute of the contest, which helped me finally get over the 70,000 points.

It could have happened even better, though it would not have been enough for GTH, and some QSOs I missed during collusion on other microwave bands, I also had a relatively intimate trouble with the intensive interference from the nearby DM7A mast. This interference occurred only when I was a 23cm antenna turned directly in that direction, 20 degrees beyond the problem. Unfortunately, it was just in the direction of S5 and so I probably lost some of the S5 / 9A station. In overall statistics, however, the number of S5 was quite good compared to eg OM3KII. In the contest, I did quite a few stations from 9A (9A2SB, 9A3JN, 9A1Z, for example), but it was more than interference due to lower activity and bad weather.

Overall feeling of the contest at 23cm is very good, I just finished with some 1200b under the historic record of the dimension and it seems I have again humbled the DR9A rivals again, we will see how it goes with the error. There was a packing in the harsh Krusnohorsk weather, which we had to finish with a nearly empty headlamp, and we were lucky to get off on Monday, so we could relax on the hill with the help of St James. The home to Prague, after all things were unloaded, we took the caravan in peace and without stress on Monday afternoon.

Now a few more words to 3cm. The new facility - it seems - was at least as good as it used to be, although it did not look like this at first on Saturday at the beginning (when it did not go east). But there was some improvement in Sunday Tropo QSO with S51ZO 483km and mainly 9A1CMS 503km, which we never made tropo before. It was also possible to repeat the nice connection with the IK3GHY 544km and Jarek made the PI4GN 532km before the end of the contest, just did not make the SM7ECM. The resulting 12476 points are worse than in the PD, but without a RS it's a pretty good result. Now there will be a little more time over the winter, so we will make the appropriate measurements to see if the RX and TX paths will improve further. Smaller adjustment will probably be the sensor in the back, where we probably will have to add hall sensors. A great benefit is undoubtedly a new system of building, when we do not need to shout nervously and the device builds and composes like butter (TNX VPZ and DIX).

As for the other bands, the 70cm suffered a breakdown of the new double PA, which did not please us, but because it could not be avoided, so we have no remorse, but we were disappointed with the 13cm band with the RX, but very surprisingly the 9, 6cm and 24 / 47 GHz. Bombou was an "impossible" connection at 47 GHz with 145 km away DL0GTH (across the forest !!), which we do not have direct visibility, see the enclosed chart. That reflection from the lookout tower at Blateňák? Or maybe from the radar on Auersberg?

There was also a nice 47 GHz QSO on Klinovec and OK1OPT alias OK3RM at a distance of 53 km. According to the report, the strength of the signal was like a phone call. At 24 GHz, the guys from DM7A had some problems, and maybe we could make more connections, heard us for example at 244km OE5VRL / 5. Otherwise, working with friends from DM7A was flawless, and we look forward to repeating it again.

Anyway, do not you want to start with a bunker of 13cm? With good parabola and more power I can say that it should be fairly easy to get over the 20,000 points and to attack the front row in the European Scorecard. In addition, instead of the bunker for the second car would be found, the condition is only the knowledge of the telegraph, the taste and the handy hand.

Post Scriptum:

In Spaleniste we returned with Lada and Majka the next Sunday after the contest, when we decided to dedicate, perhaps the last year's warm and sunny weather in the Ore Mountains, a bigger brigade and wintering. While I spent 8h with my head in the clouds on the top of a mast with paint and brush, Lada with a gas burner repaired the asphalt board on the roof, including the installation of a large area of ​​the new IPY and the paint with some asphalt penetration, as we had already flowed into the transmitting room (TNX). Just to explain why you did not hear the OK2KKW brand in the microwave operating asset this time.



73! and thanks to all those who called us and hopefully heard from Burning in May 2019!

Matej, OK1TEH

Poznámka: pro zobrazení některých statistik byl dodatečně použit SW Atalanta Locator ver. 12.29

Pocet WWL  : 81                                                           QSO v QRB
WWL        : 27xJO50   26xJO31   24xJN49   23xJO70   20xJO30   18xJN79    ---------------
             17xJO62   16xJO60   17xJO51   16xJN69   16xJN58   13xJO40        < 100   41x
             11xJO61   11xJN68   10xJO41   10xJN59    9xJO71    9xJO43    100 - 199   91x
              9xJO42    9xJO32    9xJN89    9xJN88    8xJO52    7xJO21    200 - 299  102x
              7xJN99    6xJO20    6xJN86    6xJN65    6xJN48    6xJN39    300 - 399   78x
              6xJN37    5xJN98    5xJN97    5xJN76    5xJN54    4xJN95    400 - 499   87x
              4xJN87    4xJN77    4xJN75    4xJN47    3xJO67    3xJO65    500 - 599   49x
              3xJO53    3xJO44    3xJO22    3xJO10    3xJO01    3xJN85    600 - 699   25x
              3xJN63    3xJN57    3xJN55    3xJN18    2xKN06    2xKN04    700 - 799   19x
              2xJO80    2xJO73    2xJO33    2xJO11    2xJN36    2xJN19    800 - 899    8x
              1xKN18    1xKN08    1xKN05    1xJO91    1xJO90    1xJO77        > 900    1x
              1xJO72    1xJO58    1xJO54    1xJO46    1xJO23    1xJO02    ---------------
              1xJN96    1xJN78    1xJN66    1xJN53    1xJN45    1xJN38
              1xJN34    1xJN29    1xJN25


Hodina QSO   Body  Pr.  DX  Znacka          S  SV   V  JV   J  JZ   Z  SZ
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14-15   88  23076  262  770 SK6DK          15   7   7   8  12   9  19  11
15-16   67  22280  332  765 IQ1KW           2   -   7   8   4  11  22  13
16-17   42  13919  331  761 F1TDO           5   2   4   6   6   6   8   5
17-18   39  13665  350  807 G3M             2   2   2   9   3   5  11   5
18-19   21   7846  373  819 M1CRO/P         2   -   4   3   1   -   7   4
19-20   29  10343  356  700 9A1CRS          2   1   2   4   2   -  10   8
20-21   17   8874  522  902 YT5W            -   -   1   5   5   3   2   1
21-22   23   8430  366  779 IQ8BI           -   -   5   3   6   2   3   4
22-23   13   5287  406  715 UT5DV           -   -   2   4   1   -   3   3
23-24    3    614  204  393 OK2C            1   -   2   -   -   -   -   -
00-01    9   3464  384  700 HA8V            1   -   2   3   2   1   -   -
01-02    3    340  113  166 DL3AZI          -   -   1   -   -   -   -   2
02-03    1    453  453  453 OM5MX           -   -   -   1   -   -   -   -
03-04    1    181  181  181 DL7AFB          1   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
04-05    4   1783  445  764 F5FL            -   -   -   2   1   -   1   -
05-06    8   2122  265  532 PI4GN           1   -   -   -   2   1   3   1
06-07   16   4791  299  827 G3XDY           2   1   2   3   1   -   4   3
07-08   24   8097  337  843 G8T             3   3   1   1   2   1   9   4
08-09   20   8304  415  813 SM6FHZ          2   1   -   1   1   3   9   3
09-10   20   7486  374  803 YO2YA/P         2   2   3   4   1   -   7   1
10-11   16   5794  362  668 IU4FNO          1   -   2   1   2   -   8   2
11-12   14   5399  385  765 F6HMQ           1   -   3   3   3   -   3   1
12-13   10   3294  329  427 F6KFH           1   1   1   -   1   -   4   2
13-14   13   5978  459  893 SM6VTZ          1   -   1   -   4   1   6   -
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Celkem 501 171820  343  902 YT5W           45  20  52  69  60  43 139  73

Pocet WWL  : 70                                                         QSO v QRB
WWL        : 17xJO50   12xJO31    9xJO70    9xJN79    8xJO62    8xJO61  ----------------
              8xJO60    7xJN48    6xJN68    5xJO51    5xJN99    5xJN49        < 100  20x
              4xJO52    4xJO21    4xJN89    4xJN86    4xJN59    4xJN37    100 - 199  37x
              3xJO80    3xJO41    3xJO40    3xJO32    3xJN97    3xJN95    200 - 299  35x
              3xJN87    2xJO83    2xJO82    2xJO65    2xJO43    2xJO33    300 - 399  31x
              2xJO30    2xJO20    2xJO02    2xJN98    2xJN88    2xJN78    400 - 499  36x
              2xJN76    2xJN69    2xJN65    2xJN39    1xKO03    1xKO01    500 - 599  24x
              1xKN08    1xKN06    1xKN04    1xJO93    1xJO90    1xJO86    600 - 699   8x
              1xJO77    1xJO67    1xJO58    1xJO55    1xJO54    1xJO53    700 - 799   8x
              1xJO46    1xJO42    1xJO22    1xJO11    1xJO01    1xJN77    800 - 899   5x
              1xJN75    1xJN66    1xJN58    1xJN57    1xJN55    1xJN54  ----------------
              1xJN47    1xJN45    1xJN34    1xJN18  

Hodina QSO   Body  Pr.  DX  Znacka          S  SV   V  JV   J  JZ   Z  SZ
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14-15   25   5987  239  893 SM6VTZ          6   2   5   3   1   2   6   -
15-16   26   8261  317  765 IQ1KW           3   2   4   -   -   2  10   5
16-17   22   8255  375  746 SM7GVF          4   -   5   3   3   -   5   2
17-18   15   5884  392  827 G3XDY           1   1   3   4   -   1   4   1
18-19   11   4795  435  819 M1CRO/P         1   -   4   1   1   -   3   1
19-20   17   5560  327  691 9A2UV           1   1   -   5   -   3   5   2
20-21   17   4465  262  498 TM5AHO          -   2   2   3   2   3   3   2
21-22    6   2508  418  700 HA8V            1   -   -   2   1   -   1   1
22-23    4    928  232  365 SP3YOR          -   1   1   2   -   -   -   -
23-24    4   1560  390  478 SQ2SAT          -   1   1   1   -   1   -   -
04-05    1    574  574  574 SP2QVH          -   1   -   -   -   -   -   -
05-06    2    833  416  444 SP9CP           -   -   1   -   -   -   -   1
06-07    5   2184  436  684 OZ9PZ           2   -   1   -   -   1   1   -
07-08    5   1622  324  513 OZ7JRL          2   -   -   -   -   -   1   2
08-09    8   3268  408  784 F6DKW           -   -   -   -   1   1   5   1
09-10    9   3608  400  853 YU1LA           2   -   1   2   3   -   -   1
10-11    6   2626  437  598 PE9RX           -   -   -   3   -   -   1   2
11-12    3    914  304  309 DH7FFE/P        -   -   1   -   -   1   1   -
12-13   10   3623  362  821 G4CDN           2   -   -   1   -   3   2   2
13-14    8   3407  425  701 IK4ADE          -   1   -   -   3   2   2   -
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Celkem 204  70862  347  893 SM6VTZ         25  12  29  30  15  20  50  23