June 3rd, 2018

As can be noticed now, the fears, many Microwavers would prefer to go to the HAM RADIO fair in Friedrichshafen, were overdone. It was a nice contest and in the 23 and 13 cm sections I worked more stations than in the last contests in May and March, as well as in all previous microwave contests I participated in June before. As can be seen in the maps, my honey pot is the east.

QSOs on 23 cm in Microwave Contest June 2018

The signal levels were very strong and I managed to work HA5KDQ on 23 cm in SSB over a distance of 830 km via Aircraft Scatter (ODX). To be honest: I am sure, we would have been faster in using CW 😉

QSOs on 13 cm in Microwave Contest June 2018

Working on 13 cm was big fun and ODX was HG7F over 817 km in a quick QSO in CW (as usual). When I went to bed at night, I already had 22 QSOs on this band with an average of 457 km per QSO.

Hannes, OE3JPC, was so kind, to send an audio record of my signal on 13 cm.

First steps have been done on 3 cm. But there is a lot of potential for improvements.

So it was not really a problem to quit two hours earlier to attend a barbecue with the family.