VHF Contest July 2016

This time the Wasserkuppe was not only swathed in dense fog, occasionally it was also raining cats and dogs. Especially when erecting and disassembling the station some crew members were really soaked to the skin.

Activity was lower than last year and the contest conditions were rather poor but on Saturday evening we managed to establish two nice contacts with EB1RL/p (1309km) and EA2TO (1109km).

144 MHz : 860 QSOs++++331.786 Points (386 km/QSO)

Top 10 contacts on 144 MHz:
EB1RL/P IN83FD 1309km
EA2TO IN93IA 1191km
YU7ACO KN05QC 1040km
YU1LA KN04FR 1013km
YT4B JN94SD 1008km
UZ3I KN18JT 942km
MW0TWC/P IO82JG 934km
YU7W JN95RD 924km
UR7DWW KN18EO 919km
HA8IH KN06LN 919km
G3ZME/P IO82NN 917km
9A0V JN95PE 911km
9A50CBM JN83EN 910km
9A0KG JN83FO 909km
I0NLK/0 JN62NO 909km

432 MHz: 313 QSOs++++106.624 Points (341 km/QSO)

Top 10 contacts 432 MHz:
MW0TWC/P IO82JG 934km
G3ZME/P IO82NN 917km
G3CKR/P IO93AD 870km
9A6K JN95HN 845km
HA6W KN08FB 808km
HG6Z JN97WV 776km
M0HRF/P IO91OQ 763km
I4CIV JN63FX 747km
IZ4JMU JN54WE 715km
OM3RLA JN98LB 706km
IK2FTB/5 JN54QF 704km
G3PYE/P JO02CE 703km

Our 2m antenna setup (4x 4*9el.) worked well as usual
There is still some headroom for improvements on 432Mhz. We were only working with 2 antenna systems (2x 4*9el.) instead of 4. Maybe next time!