Hope everybody had fun, well except of course the curmudgeons who will complain that the bands were in use. Call: DK5TRI Operator(s): DK5TRI Station: DK5TRI Class: SO CW LP QTH: Operating Time (hrs): 14 Summary: Band CW Qs SSB Qs Mults ---------------------------- 80: 135 0 26 40: 292 0 41 20: 147 0 29 15: 27 0 11 10: 1 0 1 ---------------------------- Total: 602 0 108 Total Score = 188,136 Club: Rhein Ruhr DX Association Comments: What a great contest we had. Kinda weird that it all worked given that I finalized the installation of my 80m antenna only hours before the start. Seems Murphy got shied away by the rain. Conditions were good, with 40m being the money band. It also turns out that a contest is a lot more fun when you're the "DX" . One thing to note, is that many ops apparently failed to read and _understand_ the rules to know that NM in lieu of a DOK for non DARC members is a valid exchange. I'm wondering how many simply didn't believe it and did not log the QSO. All in all a successful weekend if I ignore the fact that I started two hours to late on Sunday at 7 am local because my alarm was set to weekdays only. Clearly operator or 0X1DI0T error. A certainly pleasant surprise were the conditions on 15m on Sunday afternoon and the highlight of the whole event, CR3W booming in loud on 10m for a brief opening. Thanks for all the great QSOs and cu in the next one. Rig: TS-480SAT (not a contest rig) Ant: AV-640S vertical, 80m inverted-L 73 Mike DK5TRI
