NAC 2015/02 - 70cm
term: 10.2.2015, hill Krechor (333 m ASL),OK1FEN/P JO70NA
I used 15 el Yagi (OK1WGO) and 50W.
done stations:
| Station | locator | km |
|---|
| DL6NAA | JO50VF | 239 |
| OK1ZHS | JO70EC | 55 |
| DL1KDA | JO30EP | 625 |
| DL1KFS | JO30FQ | 619 |
| M0SDA/p | IO93AT | 1242 |
| PA0GUS | JO23TA | 737 |
| OK1TEH | JO70FD | 50 |
| ON7WP | JO21IC | 745 |
| G4RQI | IO93IR | 1197 |
| 2E0RET/P | IO93EI | 1210 |
| G8AXZ/P | IO93CF | 1218 |
| G4ODA | IO92WS | 1099 |
| G8XVJ/P | IO93AD | 1227 |
| GI6ATZ | IO74AJ | 1510 |
| 2E0YZA/P | IO93EI | 1210 |
| SP6FBE | JO81ND | 189 |
| SP1JNY | JO73GL | 387 |
| SK7MW | JO65MJ | 614 |
| PA2V | JO22IM | 776 |
| G4CLA | IO92JL | 1167 |
In compare with QRP contest two days before, it was well weather (no wind and without snow).
I left work earlier to improve bad function of automatic CW CQ, but small delay evenly happened. Moving to hill was short and fast. Mast with antenna I build quickly. On band i listened only two OK stations from border mountains. They did continuously QSOs with stations from England, but G stations I didn't listen. Only 1S noise from this direction. Obvious Nordic stations had antene to G, so I didn't have oposite stations for QSO. During half hour I did 3 QSO to DL. After that I listened 1st "exotic" station (M0SDA - 1242 km). I did 2 QSO to PA and ON (740 km) during next half hour. In this time I clearly listened, that "in Edinburg is very much snow" plus next 5 minutes of conversation, but without callsigns and without reaction to my QRZ (+ next OK Big Gun station). At 20h UTC started contest in Great Britain and on band few G stations started CQ. Their signals pulsed S0-S5 (1 - 3 x per sec) and I had to wait in queue to QSO. It took approximately 5 minutes per QSO, but more and more QSO I had in my log. It took 40 minutes. After that conditions fall down with some short improvements (2 minutes). Half hour later, during one short improving, I did my longest QSO with GI6ATZ (1510 km). Last 1,5 hour of contest I only sometimes listen G stations, but without QSO. Conditions one more time shortly improved 20 minutes after end of contest (1 QSO).
G stations was listen with antena routing ±15°.
Before midnight I reconnected my station to 144 MHz (6 el. Yagi, 50W).
I did these QSO:
G4SWX 519 529 JO02RF 986 km
GM8FFX 57 58 IO87WB 1380 km
GM8FFX had very good signal for long term, but others G stations already wasn't on band.
When I later tried to call GW8ASD, my battery was definitelly discharged. So I packed my antens and mast and returned home.
Next day (11.02.2015) I worked from home on 2m band.
10 el. Yagi, 50W, JO70NB, 228 m ASL
Robert OK1FEN
contesting (mainly in Czech language)
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