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CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: DR5A Operator(s): DB9EX, DF1LON, DK2CRN, DL1ECG, DL1ELY Station: DR5A
Class: M/S HP QTH: Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 129 6 42 80: 334 9 61 40: 270 22 88 20: 717 36 125 15: 435 33 122 10: 194 16 82 ------------------------------ Total: 2079 122 520 Total Score = 2,165,466
Club: Rhein Ruhr DX Association
Comments:
Not many of you already know DR5A. The Call is mainly used for VHF Contest operation from our portable location. After a rather successfull VHF and up season we decided to make our first M/S entry from that location. On Friday morning we set up our small portable contest station:
Running Station: FT1000MP + AL80b FB-33 (3ele 20m/15m/10m) 12m up Windom (160m/80m/40) 80m long and 16m up Vertical 40m
Multi Station: FT1000MP + Acom 1010 R7000 (40m-10m)
We are satisfied with the score compared to our small setup. What we missed several times was a second beam for the Multi Station. On day two it was very difficult to get the rare and needed multis. Sometimes we switched the beam from the running station to the multi station which results in a very loud "ahh": signal increases from S1 to S7 and only one call was needed to log a certain station. Very high local noice on 160m of S9. We could not realy find the source as there are green fields, green fields and green fields around us. But we have some wind turbine near to us and maybe they cause that noice floor. High band conditions on Saturday were very good and we even logged US on 10m. On Sunday not a single US station was heard on 15m and rather low US rates even on 20m. Very nice Sunday evening 10m opening to Zone 8, 9 and 10.
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