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"VK3UM 2013 ARRL Contest / results comments.
The times / declination for the Southern Hemisphere was typical of the many years past where we only get one shot at Europe on one weekend or the other, but that’s the way it has always been! This year I actually had 17 minutes at the beginning of the contest and worked 10 during that period on 23 cm. It could have been more if you guys were not so accurate at zero beating each other! Conditions on 70 cm were about 45 degrees off on rise and set for both weekends but signals with slow fade were excellent except there were very few. My result on 70 cm was the worst ever. Twelve 70 cm QSO’s total tells the sad story of the activity. Combining the CW and Digital modes to encourage activity has in my opinion, had the opposite effect and is/will be the death knell of the ‘Contest’ from my perspective. I support the two weekends as explained above, as we have less window opportunities than the Northern Hemisphere and add to that the inevitable inclement weather either side of the equator, as it has been in the past, some of us are lucky to get a window at all!

It seems to me to (the Contest) has reached the point of having only a WSJT version, pick the contacts you want from MAP 65, coordinate on Internet, forget all licensing power restrictions, forget your neighbours EMR hazards and enjoy your selves .. so be it .. go that way for the majority and forget what Ham Radio was all about. The proof to me lies totally in the activity now coming from the USA noting that it is an ARRL Contest where the operators have shown their preference for the mode and bands of choice. After decades of participation, (taking part and entering logs year after year), this year has been a turning point for me. Listening to my echo’s on 70 and 23 cms for hours during a NA widow with 2 or 3 US Stations on air is most disappointing. Those that say they will be working both modes, be honest, you don’t, so don’t infer you will when you can’t. If I cannot hear or ‘see’ you with my dish you just aren't there, or is it that most don’t have an Easterly window? (hardly)

1296 MHz
26/10/13 OK1CS,OK1CH,F5SE/P,OE5JFL,G3LTF,IZ1BPN,SV1BTR,G4CCH,LZ2US,DL6SH,K1JT,W6YX,K5GW, NA4N,K1DS,N2UO,WD5AGO,N8CQ,JA8ERE,JA4BLC,RD3BA,UA4HTS,
VK2JDS, RA3AUB, UA3PTW, SM4IVE, SP7DCS, OK2DL, SP6ITF, IK3COJ, SP6JLW, OZ6OL, SM3JQU, OK2ULQ, DL3EBJ,RA3AUB,
27/10/13
YO2BCF, DF33RU, SD3F, DJ8FR, I1NDP, 9A5AA, JA6AHB,
16/11/13
VA7MM,N4PZ,VE6TA,JH1KRC,JA4LJB,WA6PY,IW2FZR,OH1LRYON5TA,I5YDI,PA3FXB,ON7UN,DF1SR.
17/11/13
JH3EAO, F5JWF, SP6GWN, SM7SJR, IK5VLS, CT1DMK
Total 62x30 (average given window and time constraints. Multipliers down due USA lack of participation during my window times)

432 MHz
26/10/13. VE6TA, JA9BOH, JA4BLC, JA0TJU.
16/11/13. K1JT, DL9KR, DG1KJG, SP6JLW, SM6FHZ, SP7DCS
17/11/13. N4GJV, SM2CEW
Total 12 x7 (worst result since operating on 70 cm .. 3 decades)

73
Doug VK3UM "

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Hi all,
just like in 1st leg I was focused on 70cm.
The second part brought me 4 more contacts
(LZ1DX -22dB, NC1I -17dB, SM2A -27dB, WA4NJP -20dB)
I overslept first window in the early morning
on Satruday so I missed DL9KR, VK3UM, sri guys..
Total result for ARRL EME Contest 2013:

13xJT65 contacts + 2x contacts in CW

The highlight was CW sked with Jimmy, SV1BTR
(sked so I didn't count it for contest ;-). After
several skeds during last 2 years this time
we finally made it (mni tnx for patience!).
Jimmy is my 87th mixed initial (27th CW initial)
worked with my single 23el dk7zb 5,7m long yagi
and some 600W at dipole (all in enormous city
noise).

Except noted contacts I also decoded in JT65
I5CTE -25dB and SM5DIC -26dB however thank to
bad SWR (icing) I wasn't able to be active
on 70cm during Sunday evening.. Special note
is relating to K4EME, saw/heard Cowles with
nice signal almost during whole window, congrats!

Other bands: I spent some time to look on 2m
around 050 and heard SV1BTR + OZ1HNE, however
signals were so weak (M copy) so I didn't call..
In JT65 during Sunday evening I gave fast point to
3Z4EME, UR7D #412, RU1AA, PI9CM #413, 7K3LGC,
I2FAK and K1JT. On 23cm I did some tests with
my 1m dish for fun however without success.

73
Matej, OK1TEH

PS: I support splitting contest for one weak for CW
and second for MGM only (for 2m/70cm bands)..

raport stacji pracujacej wylacznie na JT.....

Hi Moon Friends


First I want to thank everybody that worked me in the contest and also if you did call me also. I will tell you all about my problems before the contest. In the first leg of the contest my amplifier went bang. This was close to the end of the Europe window. With little sleep I took my time to find and fix the problem. That took about 1 1/2 hours. The rest of the weekend was OK except conditions I thought were not great. Then the week of the second leg on the contest my elevation system went out for the first time. Then on Thursday 14th my gear box went out and took out one of the worm gears. I worked on it till two hours before the contest started to get it back up and running. I few days before the contest I had got a noise source from somewhere that is S-9 to 20 over from 65 degrees to 135 degrees. It would come and go but was there a lot till I got up about 35 degrees in elevation. My good friend Les, W2DBL came on my computer and we set up Linrad to help with the noise problem. So I ran Linrad with MAP65 the second leg of the contest. I still need to find my noise problem. Saturday night we had high winds that I was running in. About 3:30 AM my elevation went from 65 degrees to 120 degrees. I have a safety wire with a BIG spring on the elevation to stop it at 75 degrees. Well the gush of winds were much stronger than I thought so the array flipped over. I went outside in the wind and rain and got it back over. Then I used a rope and ran it through four of the vertical mass pipe to tie the ends to the 45-G tower mounted on the two truck chassis. Then I could control the array from flipping over. I went out about every 20 minutes to adjust the rope. To do EME I think you have to be a little crazy also . I had a great time in the contest even with the problems. Maybe next year things will be better . All contacts were random using Linrad with MAP65 and also WSJT9 on two other computers. All contacts were digital mode.


228 contact with 23 dupes. A lot of dupes this year. So score is 205 contacts with 83 multiplier. I worked 35 states out of 50 this year. I did miss 4X1DG, 9A2PT, CT1FJC, LA8KV that were on the first leg of the contest. Looking forward of seeing everybody next year. Thank You.


KB8RQ, Gary
24X13 element horizontal
24X9 element vertical
http://www.KB8RQ.com
KB8RQ@SPASALON.COM
kb8rq@Yahoo.com
Garykb8rq@gmail.com

jeszcze jeden ciekawy raport.......

Dear moon-friends,

The PI9CM DX-Group team (Chris PA2CHR, Jurgen PE1LWT, Johan PA3FPQ)
participated the 2013 ARRL EME contest for 2 weekends. Multi-op, all
band, all mode.

We were active on 3 bands: 144MHz, 432MHz and 1296MHz.

Our results:

144MHz: 180 qso's (all digital)
432MHz: 6 qso's (all digital) Our amplifier died the first
weekend so not qrv in 2n leg
1296MHz: 27 qso's ( 16 digital and 11 cw)

With Linrad + MAP65 we managed to operate FULLY RANDOM, NOT ASSISTED!

I think the activity was good, conditions quite well. There could be
more activity from our USA friends.

Thanks all for the FB contacts and till next year (or earlier from a
unknown/new DXCC :-) )

Equipment:
144MHz: 4 x 14 elem. DK7ZB h + H pol.
432MHz: 4 x 33 elem. M2 H pol only.
1296MHz: 3mtr dish, 110W. 0,3dB NF.

73,

On behalf of the PI9CM DX-group,
Johan PA3FPQ

raport zespolu pracujacego pod znakiem K1JT........

Hi all,

Once again we thoroughly enjoyed operating in the 2013 ARRL EME Contest
as a Multi-Op, All Mode, All Band entry. We used the K1JT home station
on 144 MHz and the K2UYH station on 432 MHz through 10G. We made 16
fewer QSOs than last year, but with 8 more multipliers produced a nearly
identical score.

We have been making this effort together since 2007, and it's
interesting to compare results over the years. Here are our summary
tallies from 2007 to 2013:

Band 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
---------------------------------------------------------------
144 175/67 185/65 161/65 228/79 176/69 182/68 194/75
432 29/22 45/31 50/31 38/28 40/29 59/29 43/28
1296 84/35 94/37 73/41 83/40 77/40 82/37 74/38
2.3G 18/15 24/20 29/24 31/22 22/18 24/20 22/22
3.4G 7/7 4/4 3/2 4/4 8/8
5.7G 11/9 4/3
10.3G 8/7 1/1
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total 306/139 356/160 320/168 384/173 318/158 362/167 346/175

Score: 4.3M 5.7M 5.4M 6.6M 5.0M 6.0M 6.0M

During the October 2013 contest weekend we connected to the HB9Q 1296
EME Logger at K2UYH in order to help Al to find and work a new DXCC,
H44HP, using his home call. This outside-the-contest activity had no
effect on our contest effort under the callsign K1JT; however, to avoid
any possible suggestion of impropriety with respect to contest rule 6.3,
we will be submitting our 2013 log as a non-competing, just-for-fun
checklog.


Sometimes after a contest we hear comments in the nature of "Activity
was pretty good, but where were all the stations from XXX, or YYY?" So
for interest as one example, I did the exercise of counting our 144 MHz
contest QSOs by country (or DXCC entity) of origin. Here are the results:

39 United States
19 Russia
17 Germany
9 Italy, Ukraine
8 France
6 Netherlands, Sweden
5 Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, England, Japan, Slovenia
4 Australia, Latvia
3 Finland, Poland, Spain, New Zealand
2 Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Romania, Serbia
1 Argentina, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Crete, Estonia,
Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Martinique, Mexico,
Norway, Scotland, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea,
Switzerland, Uruguay, Wales

The distribution of QSOs seems pretty much as might be expected.


I'm surprised that some operators still seem to think that a "side
channel" of some sort is necessary or desirable for making QSOs in a
contest like this one. Back in 2006, I had a very modest 2-yagi station
on 2 meters and made 93 contest QSOs with no loggers, no clusters, no
internet, no telephone, no skeds. This was before work on MAP65 had
started, so I didn't use that aid, either. I should emphasize that
polarization diversity is very important on 144 and 432 MHz. And today,
MAP65 (or its equivalent) can be a very big help in making JT65 contest
QSOs on 144, 432, or 1296 MHz.

Another fallacy: some operators of small-to-modest stations believe
there is little point in calling CQ during an EME contest. Nothing
could be farther from the truth! If you call CQ for 10 minutes or so
during a busy contest weekend, other stations will find and call you.


This year our hard-working operator team included K2BMI, K2TXB, NE2U,
and W9IP in addition to K1JT and K2UYH. We also had the usual help and
encouragement from K1DS, K2QM, and K3TUF, outside of actual contest
operating periods.

Thanks for all the QSOs, and see you next year!

-- 73, Joe, K1JT -- for the Multi-Op team.




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