"Setting benchmarks"
Here is the October contest report (by DL6AUI and DL2ALF) :
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This time
some things went completely different. Because DL2ALF was on a business
trip, the van was organized by Harti, DL6AUI himself on Friday morning. The
loading was done with 2 Persons only which took approx. 2 hours. On Saturday, Frank, DL2ALF arrived on time, so we could start our trip to the "Schneekopf" at 0600UT. Just arrived : weather as usual, heavy fog (visibility < 100m ) and temperature below 10 deg. But no rain! And no doughnuts (Gerhard, DL2ASI was on a holiday trip)! After feeding our engines with a small beer unpacking the van went with no trouble at all. Placing the antennas for 23cm, 13/6cm and 9/3cm in an optimal way reduced the number of pegs needed and saved OMs'resources...
During the mounting of our 23cm Equipment the rest of OMs arrived and some minutes later everyone had his job. We finished setup including the microwave tripod for 10/24/47GHz just one hour before the contest : time for a relaxed coffee break!
The contest
went fantastic. Everything was simply perfect : equipment, skeds, packet radio,
even the weather god was on our side. Though the conditions were marginal on
Saturday and normal on Sunday we achieved our best result scraping the legendary
October '95 benchmarks.
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