by
DK7MI, operator DL4MEA
31.07.99 - 01.08.1999
kindly supported by
After
Rytis, LY2BIL and Graham, F/G8MBI, explained that they still need JN67
square, I checked DL8EBW's most wanted squares list and found that it is
really not possible to work that square on Meteor Scatter propagation.
Anybody seems to be QRV there. Its hard to understand, because there are
many stations in every contest, for example OE2CAL or OE7HWI, but none
of them is QRV in MS.
First thoughts were made setting up a standard DXpedition with power generator and a caravan. All would have been ok, but we were not able to get a caravan, and living in a tent on a field of cows isn't what I wanted to do. I then asked around at ham's from whom I know that they are in JN67, and with Hans, DK7MI, I finally found somebody who supported me by offering me the fantastic chance to operate from the antenna test facilities of his QRH, Kathrein Antennas in Rosenheim, JN67bu.
So, I packed all into my car and went to JN67bu. Its just 100km to drive from my YL's QTH, but before I had to pack all at my home QTH, and when I was at my YL, I thought that I forgot three elements of my antenna. So I had to drive back at least, to find out that what I called 13ele is really a 10ele and I already had the complete antenna with me.
I took two complete set of radios with me, spare for everything:
RX/TX:
FT847 (IC251)
Power Amp:
GS35b+MRF141G (4CX350)
Antenna:
10 ele BV-OPT 6m long, 40m HCF 1/2" cable
Rotor:
cheap but good
Keyer:
Toshiba T1200 laptop
Audio slow down: K6-233 with Cooledit96
(Uher tape recorder)
On the front seat of my car you can see the GS35b power amp, on the back seat its three phase power supply. On the roof the dismounted antenna. All was inspected and accepted by our cat before I started.
When
already beeing late, you know, there will be a reason for an additional
delay...
After arriving in Rosenheim we went to the top of the roof and set up our equipment as quick as possible. Not at least we wanted to eat a pizza before starting our night-mare... We could use one of Kathrein's antenna test masts, which is shown in its lower position on the photo below, at operation it was around 10m higher. We were on the third floor and had additional 15m of mast there, a really fine QTH.
At
least all was ok around 1.5 hours before our first sked and we were able
to have a nice garlic pizza in the warm and friendly city of Rosenheim.
Our operation started at 21:30 with SK6HD. Right: DK7MI, left: DL4MEA
We were using a new way of operation. Suggested by EI/DH7FB's long lists of random QSOs I did about the same, but invented time slots. I saw that that such is necessary because of two reasons:
First, you cannot make the others waiting for the event for the whole night (I for myself was waiting 5h without success for EI/DH7FB in IO55, got tremendeous troubles with my YL due to that amount of wasted time.
Second, it sums up the time for random operation and gives nevertheless flexibility for the callers if one needs more time.
That kind of operation was really successful and further DXpeditions should think about it, too.
Because I was using 
CoolEdit96
for slowing down the received bursts I am now able to show you those here.
Some of the samples are raw format like I received them, some are already
slowed down. But all of them are already mixed up. The are compressed with
128kBit in MPEG-3 format. For playing them you need a MPEG-3 player. I
suggest to use the most common one, 
WINAMP.
| Date | Time-Slot (UTC) | Callsign | Locator | Distance |
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| 31.07.1999 | 2130-2200 | SK6HD |
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1st RX period (14sec,
235kB)
2nd RX period (21sec, 342kB) |
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| 31.07.1999 | 2200-2215 | GM0WDD |
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1st RX period (32sec,
525kB)
2nd RX period (14sec, 226kB) |
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| 2215-2235 | OH6MAZ |
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| 2235-2320 | OH6KSR |
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| 2320-2335 | OH1XT |
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| 01.08.1999 | 0000-0015 | SM7SJR |
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| 0015-0115 | SM5TSP |
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| 0115-0145 | LA5KO |
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1st RX period (16sec,
265kB)
2nd RX period (1:11min, 1.1MB) 3rd RX period (2:21min, 2.3MB) 4th RX period (10sec, 1.7MB) |
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| 01.08.1999 | 0200-0207 | LY2WR |
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| 0207-0225 | LY2BIL |
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| 0245-0315 | G0RUZ |
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| 01.08.1999 | 0345-0405 | F/G8MBI |
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| 0405-0425 | EA3DXU |
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| 0425-0450 | I8TWK |
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| 0450-0520 | EA7GTF |
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| EA7AJ |
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| 01.08.1999 | 0600-0650 | TK5JJ |
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Comments:
*1: We were calling you for 4
or 5 periods when we decided to call LA5KO as we did for one period. Suddenly
we received a 5sec burst with all necessary information but 1kHz too low.
We switched back to you, but for another three periods nothing was received
and we finally decided to call LA5KO.
*2: weak and short bursts
*3: sorry, ran out of time,
called you three periods but no copy
*4: called us while we were
CQing to russia with the back side of the antenna
*5: completed in SSB with a
3min++ burst. Listen to the audio sample
*6: while calling EA7AJ still
EA7GTF was transmitting
All of our worked squares: 13
different squares in 10 countries within whole europe:
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Into the direction
of I8TWK we had the alps in our view. This is a picture into his direction
viewing into the valley of the river Inn:
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Finally it was much fun for DK7MI and me and we enjoyed very much.
Maybe we meet each other in JN66 next time...
vy 73, Guenter, DL4MEA