{"id":280,"date":"2015-06-05T15:36:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T14:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamradio.marina.si\/?p=280"},"modified":"2015-06-19T07:57:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T06:57:53","slug":"6-7-june-contest-qrv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamradio.marina.si\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"6.\/7. June 2015 contest report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just two facts which tells how special this contest was:<\/p>\n

– after approx. 20 years my friend Ale\u0161 decided to join me and participate in contest!<\/p>\n

– \u00a0I finally made my first rain scatter QSO!<\/p>\n

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Walking time was aprox. 2,5 hours long with a heavy load. We missed 2h of the contest and if I look now this where the best hours\u00a0for 3cm RS. This time there were no \u00a0problems with equipment, everything just worked well. \u00a0Unfortunately we were without GPRS signal, but we setup WLAN connection, with some limits – connection was possible only while we’re standing on the place where LOS was.<\/p>\n

When I first heard RS signal I thought it was signal coming directly in the IF, because I was listening OE8 station. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 After while (when I unpluged transverter) I realized that this was 3cm signal. \u00a0Whatever \u00a0a bit latter I did my first QSO on RS – OK2A in JO60jj, 455km.<\/p>\n

I was without sleeping bag so I sleep only 2 hours then I woke because it was so cold. 70cm and 2m bands where almost empty so I had nothing to do \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Next day around noon UTC again great RS appeared over the Alps. Like day before I heard again DF0YY station from JO62GD, but much stronger. I did several calls but with no luck. I realized that power of 200mW is not enough for such distance, but I was still capable to work several QSO over 500km. For more details click on picture below.\"mapa\"<\/a><\/p>\n

More than 80% of the ctest I’ve been working with 2,5W, and both ODX QSOs (70cm & 2m) where done by 2,5W only. Reason was energy saving, because in had only 23Ah of accu capacity available. When I came back to home I saw that there was still 8Ah in the battery.<\/p>\n

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I heard also DK5AI, SP6GWB, DL6NCI, OM3KII,…<\/p>\n