May 2006 UHF Contest

Wet weather provided some rainscatter contacts but no tropo, however aircraft scatter provided good results. The 70cm QSO with SK7MW went very quickly with steady signals, whereas OK4W took some time to get a good enough peak to complete. However there was no sign of SK7MW on 23cm, where DM7A, OK4W (JO60), DF0YY (JO62), DL0GTH(JO50), DK6AS (JO52), F8KOP/P (JN06) and DK8SG (JN48) provided some good long distance contacts. 13cm was the real surprise, with excellent DX with DM7A, DF0YY, DK6AS, and DL0GTH. Unusually G8AIM (IO92) was worked by rainscatter on this band on a heading 20 degrees off true. GM4ISM/P provided a new square on 9cm by aircraft scatter. On 6cm and 3cm results were fairly average with no unusual DX. Some UK Signals were very loud on rainscatter on Saturday evening. Results are summarised in the table below:

Band (MHz)

QSOs

Claimed Score

Best DX

Locator

Distance (km)

432

19

8119

SK7MW

JO65MJ

861

1296

33

12791

DM7A

JO60LK

837

2320

23

7793

DM7A

JO60LK

837

3400

12

3200

GM4ISM/P

IO74WV

473

5760

11

2529

DK2MN

JO32PC

416

10368

18

4999

DK2MN

JO32PC

416

 

 

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