CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW 2011

Call: DL1IAO
Operator(s): DL1IAO
Station: DF0UK

Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP
QTH: JN49EA
Operating Time (hrs): 25

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:                    
   80:                    
   40:                    
   20:                    
   15:                    
   10: 1627    39      164
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Total: 1627    39      164  Total Score = 786,422

Club: Bavarian Contest Club

Comments:

IC756Pro3(INRAD) + Alpha89

WT v3.27.1 on HP Omnibook XE3
Packet, Skimmer

Optibeam OB16-3 @ abt 40m total height
(on a university building with 17m crank-up tower on roof)

I was prepared to do a SOAB HP / SO2R effort but gave up on this plan on Friday
evening - too many problems with the lowband antennas. With the excellent 10m
condx during the last weeks I thought that single band could be a nice
fill-in.

At this place the band closed very early on the first evening and the runs to
North America were not as productive as I had hoped for. I still had lots of
fun working all the multipliers and competing with DF9ZP, DK2GZ and DF0DX. I
guess I was not the only one passing the old 10m Assisted DL record score. The
Optibeam played very well with some unbelievable signals on the band. I just
wish the city QRN would be a bit lower, not covering those really weak
signals.

I did not hear any of the KL7s spotted this evening. I wonder if anyone from EU
has actually worked one of them.

As usual I want to thank the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) radio club
for the opportunity to use their station. Maybe next time we will have all bands
running again!


73,

Stefan
DL1IAO@contesting.com
http://www.dl1iao.com