Spring Contest 2009: Feedback
Friday May 8th, 2009 – 03:38 PMHello,
We are happy to share ou last contest report with you. Overall the WX was good, propagation just average (except on microwave bads where it was great) and we had a lot of fun.
We met on Friday morning at Joël F6JMT’s home to load the truck.
Let’s have a look at the results. As you can see we operated on 7 bands from 144 Mhz up to 24 Ghz. We are getting ready for multi/multi HF contests ! 
Our 144 Mhz station worked fine and we could achieve 418 QSO. Our QRO PA broke on Sunday morning and we ended using the 2m band mostly to find microwave contacts.
For tjhe first time we used a new 3×6 elements DK7ZB in 28 Ohms technik stack. We now have 3 DK7ZB stacks for 144 Mhz. Our last F9FT stack (2×17) will be replaced for the next contest by another 4×6 elements DK7ZB stack.
We got 36 big locator square in the log on 2m:
This is our QSO split by hours: Red when we are under our contest average, Green when we are over.
Operation on 432 MHz was a lot easier than in the past thanks to the new filters Joel built. Even with our max power we had no interferance on 432 MHz.
We got 36 big locator square in the log on 2m:
This is our QSO split by hours: Red when we are under our contest average, Green when we are over.
23cm was disapointing. The RX on our transverter was death and we had to use the same transverter as one 70cm. (Icom 910H with 10w output only). Anyway even with such QRP power the 2m dish permited to put QSO in the log.
Philippe F6DPH came with 4 transverter in his car: 2,3 GHz, 5,7 GHz, 10 Ghz et 24 GHz. On Sunday morning he didn’t had a chance to stop thanks to all the request we got from 2m and from the ON4KST chat.
Gérard F5JEB was able to finish his new transverter on time. (on Friday afternoon !). They are still some enhancement to do but he is already ready for the next contest !
As a final that’s our claimed scrore per band and the split per DXCC !
Lots of pictures are available in the gallery: http://www.f8kth.fr/nggallery/page-14/album-3/gallery-33/
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