It has been the warmest and driest contest weekend for years.

Almost all forecasters promised rain in the days before which was really necessary. The Forest Fire Danger Index was 4 with tendency to 5 (according to the international scaling). Level 5 means - "No Entry" to the Schnnekopf area. We had to wait for special permission by the local forestry office which we got on Thursday right before our preparations were starting. No idea what to do if not....

Now everything went smooth and we could load the vans and our "travelling circus" was entering the Schneekopf plateau on Saturday morning 0700UT as usual. Instead of the promised rain we met blue sky with temperatures of abt. 12°C. The only thing the meteorologists were right was the strong wind with 4 - 5 bft. Easy to unload the equipment in the sun!



The erection work of  7 masts went flawless because of good weather and a lot of helping hands. Although the amount of cables is rising from contest to contest everything was managed on time. After that, the tripods with equipment on 24 - 76 GHz were completed . What about wireless communication? The only thing really wireless was the new WLAN connecting 5 Laptops together for logging.



The work on the bands started normally. Unfortunately the promised rain fell far in the east, too far for rain scatter.  Nice to see on KST and cluster how our competitors did :-(

On Sunday after a warm and starry night we started with some nice tropo QSOs dir G. After that we were quite busy with all these 24/47GHz skeds. Around 1100UT the wind calmed down and temperatures began to rise. Anybody not involved in contest work was lazing on the grass. I can't remember such a thing.



Spare time also for our service team. No failures during the whole contest. Everything went smooth, the network and the new logging software did a great job! Internet via GPRS was OK but not always stable. For the very first time we gave up packet radio.





Working on all bands until 1400UT we had a lot to do with putting away the equipment in the cars. But after 3 hours everything was cleared up and we were ready for the last group picture.

Take a look at the results! They are very good and better than in May 2006. So we are quite optimistic for the upcoming evaluation by DARC.

Band	QSOs	Claimed score	ODX Call	ODX Loc	ODX km
144MHz	873	246361	LA0BY	JO59	1038
432MHz	469	121231	G3CKR/P	IO93	917
1.2GHz	195	54057	G4KIY	IO92	783
2.3GHz	68	18406	G3XDY	JO02	683
3.4GHz	22	5246	PA6NL	JO21	486
5.6GHz	19	4889	SK7MW	JO65	549
10GHz	54	12094	SK7MW	JO65	549
24GHz	11	1220	DL4BBU/P	JO60	171
47GHz	3	260	OK1AIY/P	JO60	156
76GHz	1	42	DL2ALI/P	JO51	42

Thank you all for the points and hope to cuagn in June.