IARU R1 144Mhz Contest 2018

f.l.t.r.: DL6FBL, DL2ZXA, DK5OH, DL4XX, DK4EE, DK5MX

The weather was fine on Friday and we (DL6FBL, DK5MX, DK5OH) finally erected five of seven antenna systems on that day.
DK4EE, DL4XX and DL2ZXA arrived at 10am and we continued the work with the whole team. 3 hours before contest start we were ready and we enjoyed our obligatory classy Wasserkuppe barbecue.

Throughout the contest the conditions seemed to be flat but we managed to run high QSO rates and two nice long range contacts to EA. Everything worked like a charm and we had no failures. We finally claim around 470000 points with 1130 QSOs.

Top 10 QSO:
ED2C; 1344km
EE2R; 1309km
G7RAU; 1079km
G4LOH; 1077km
LA0BY; 1058km
YU7ACO; 1042km
YT4B; 1008km
F5KHP; 1003km
F5SGT/p; 982km
G4RRA; 975km

countries worked:
9A 21
DL 529
E7 3
EA 2
F 79
G 55
HA 9
HB9 19
I 91
LA 1
LX 2
OE 28
OK 130
OM 27
ON 25
OZ 11
PA 38
S5 24
SM 13
SP 67
UR 1
YU 4

Finally we dismantled the station in 3 hours and left the hill at 7pm local time.

Lets do it again in November…we will be back !

73 de DA0FF

DL6FBL, DK5MX, DK5OH, DL2ZXA, DK4EE, DL4XX