Winter is over

We had to skip the first sub-regional contest due to operator illness and the bad weather. So, finally spring is back and we are back in business. 

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In principle the March contest is a great opportunity for us to score big since most of the groups can’t use their normal qth’s. However, the long winter conditions prevented us as well from using our hill for contest purposes. There have been still ice and now on the mountain. Additionally, Jens (DH0LS) called in sick. So, DF0MTL skipped this contest.

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Fun Operating

The author wasn’t unable to take part in his favorite contest of the year due to family obligations. He was forced to spend some time in 8Q-land instead. Therefore, no big operation has been planned and the group separated for the last contest of the year into to individual operations. DQ7A operated at Haeuselstein (JN59RJ) and DF0MTL from Deditzhöhe (JO61JF), respectively.

Thanks everybody for the contacts and we hope to see everybody – and hopefully a few more – in March of next year.

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Final Efforts

This time the DQ7A operation took place at Deditzhöhe, JO61JF.

The weather forecast promised heavy rain all day on Saturday. Luckily, the rain stayed away till about 6pm. So, at least we have been able to set up the stations in dry conditions.

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Luckily, the weather forecast was wrong

This time the DQ7A operation took place at the Häuselstein, JN59RF.

The weather forecast promised heavy rain all day on Friday and Saturday morning. Luckily, the rain stayed about 50km to the south and it was just a bit cloudy with a little bit of rain Friday night.

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Thunderstorm limits the new Record

The joint effort of the south east contest group and the DF0MTL crew went into the fourth round. This time operation took place at the Deditzhöhe, JO61JF.

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Getting the Stuff Home Dry Would Be Fine One Day

The joint effort of the south east contest team and the DF0MTL crew went into the third round. This time operation took place at the Hirtstein, JO60OM.

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Being the Rain Scatter Point

The joint effort of the south east contest team and the DF0MTL crew went into the second round. This time we operated from JN59RJ.

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DQ7A – The Contest Year 2012 starts

Having a few good contest in 2012 together the members of the south east contest team and the DF0MTL crew decided to put in a full contest effort in the multi-operator category in 2012. So the fun starts as always in early March.

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They did it again

Unfortunately, the members of the DK0CG contest team lost their battle for the 3rd place in the German Contest Trophy against the DF0YY team in October. Nevertheless, they are still in a good mood and joined us for the final frontier of the contest year 2011. And as far as I can see they didn’t regret.

In contrast to other years the weather has been more than perfect. It has been warm and sunny during the day and even at night it hasn’t been to chilly. It is of course very nice to be able to set up the station as well as tier it down in absolutely dry conditions. However, it allowed our opponents as well to use their contest sites in the mountains. Well we will see where we end up in the ranks. (more…)