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CONTEST REPORT
Contest : iaru-uhf
Date : 03./04.10.1998
Call : S55AW
UL : JN75DS
Frequency : 432 MHz
Category : Single op.
Location : V. Javornik - 1268 m a.s.l.
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QSO's : 174
Valid QSO's : 174
Sum of dist. : 51334 km
QRB/QSO : 295 km/QSO
ODX : DK2CRN/p JO30JF 746 km
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Ant : 2 x 33 el. DL6WU
RX/TX : MGF1402 - IC402/TS440+XVRT - 2T930+GI7B - 250 W
Sw : VHFCTEST v3.0c by S53WW
OP's: 1. S55AW
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QSOs/QRB: QSOs/DXCC:
< 100 km : 33 S5 33
100 - 200 km : 22 I 55
200 - 300 km : 35 OK 20
300 - 400 km : 31 9A 14
400 - 500 km : 26 HG 7
500 - 600 km : 19 OM 9
600 - 700 km : 7 OE 10
700 - 800 km : 1 DL 22
> 800 km : 0 SP 2
YU 1
HB 1
Top ten per QRB:
DK2CRN/p JO30 746
DF0CI JO51 685
DH8VH JN39 672
DK5PD JN39 667
SP9EWU JO90 620
DM2CKK/p JO50 619
DL4NAC/p JO40 614
DK0GR/p JN49 609
DH0GHU JN38 581
IK1FHB/1 JN34 569
Worked UL fields - 47
JO51
JO30 JO40 JO50 JO60 JO70 JO80 JO90
JN39 JN49 JN59 JN69 JN79 JN89 JN99
JN38 JN48 JN58 JN68 JN78 JN88 JN98
JN47 JN67 JN77 JN87 JN97
JN56 JN66 JN76 JN86
JN35 JN45 JN55 JN65<JN75>JN85 JN95
JN34 JN44 JN54 JN64 KN04
JN53 JN63
JN62
JN61
It passed long time from my last activity on UHF or SHF. Together with Roby,
S53WW we decided to clean the dust from equipment. I even postponed my itinerary
to Sweden.
On Saturday weather was nice and forecast not bad. After short discussion we
made decision to set up two separated masts, one for 70cm, where I was operated
and one for 23cm, where Roby was try to kill noise.
The antennas were looking nice in sunshine...
And it started. Voice recorder didn't work properly so I eliminated it. GI7B
Amplifier was fill uncomfortable - drifting all the time - so I had one hand
all the time on the tuning knob, with to high Ig and to low output power
(which is always to low, hi!). No problems were indicated in 2T930A mid-amplifier
and pre-amplifier with MGF-1402. At midnight first longer stop because 2T930A
started to operate its own way. During the night I lost my patience discovering
noise and went to sleep for several hours. In the morning unexpected good tropo
conditions toward OM and SP and 7 QSO in 15 minutes. That was the only bright
moment together with several QSO with DL stations in whole contest, HI. Of
course, Murphy came right when I started to trust in equipment and better
propagation. 2T930 died in his less than 20 hours of life. Break was one and
half-hour long. Instead of IC-402 TS-440 and transverter were coming on desk
jointly with all cables and switches. Unexpected, power was not lower than in
previous configuration - but still too low, hi. I found out that culprit for
high Ig was not GI7B but PA with 2T930. Nothing specially happened until end
of contest.
The activity was not poor, but propagation for sure yes. In each contest I
make less stations from Italy, where activity is really gone down. This is
valid for all bands. 22-DL stations are not to bad, especially those from
JN39, JO51, JN49 and DK2CRN/p in JO30 as ODX on distance 746km. All other
directions disappointed me, particularly north. I had lost many QSOs in deep
and fast QSB. I had feeling that 250W is not sufficient for serious DX work.
By the way, Roberts score is 60 QSO and 12.5k points, ODX DK5PD in JN39VV.
He operated with 60W and 55 el. LY.
To cool us heavy rain started before contest was finished!
We are not used to have cooking meals on our cottage but TNX to Dore, S51LD
we had excellent Sunday lunch.
Summary:
If I had any idea how boring contest could be, I would never have participated
in it. However, we should look forward, MMC is coming, where Roby will take
part and finally good meteor shower Leonids is expected as a last activity
from JN75DS in this year.
Good DX-ing.
73 de Stanko
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