[RRDXA] CQWW SSB DR5A M/S HP

[DF1LON, Lars]

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: DR5A
Operator(s): DB9EX, DF1LON, DK2CRN, DL1ECG, DL1ELY
Station: DR5A

Class: M/S HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  129     6       42
   80:  334     9       61
   40:  270    22       88
   20:  717    36      125
   15:  435    33      122
   10:  194    16       82
------------------------------
Total: 2079   122      520  Total Score = 2,165,466

Club: Rhein Ruhr DX Association

Comments:

Not many of you already new DR5A. The Call is mainly used for VHF 
Contest operation from our portable location. After a rather successfull 
VHF and up season we decided to make our first M/S entry from that 
location. On Friday morning we set up our small portable contest station:

Running Station:
FT1000MP + AL80b
FB-33 (3ele 20m/15m/10m) 12m up
Windom (160m/80m/40) 80m long and 16m up
Vertical 40m

Multi Station:
FT1000MP + Acom 1010
R7000 (40m-10m)

We are satisfied with the score compared to our small setup. What we 
missed several times was a second beam for the Multi Station. On day two 
it was very difficult to get the rare and needed multis. Sometimes we 
switched the beam from the running station to the multi station which 
results in a very loud "ahh": signal increases from S1 to S7 and only 
one call was needed to log a certain station.
Very high local noice on 160m of S9. We could not realy find the source 
as there are green fields, green fields and green fields around us. But 
we have
some wind turbine near to us and maybe they cause that noice floor.
High band conditions on Saturday were very good and we even logged US on 
10m. On Sunday not a single US station was heard on 15m and rather low 
US rates even
on 20m. Very nice Sunday evening 10m opening to Zone 8, 9 and 10.

http://www.dr5a.de/
73 de DR5A