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F/OK2KKW/p JN38OJ UHF Contest DX-pedition to France - UHF/SHF Contest IARU 1994
Our friend Petr (ex OK2VIA), the original founder of OK2KKW from Brno has relatives in France. He could arrange help and accomodation for us (a big TNX!) at a French ham radio club in the mountains near Strasbourg in east France. Our contest QTH was almost at the top of Champ de Feu hill (JN38OJ) about 60 km south-west from Strasbourg. There’s a famous ski-center with many ski lifts at about 1100 m a.s.l. there. There are higher hills to the south-west, more then 1400 m a.s.l., but as we were told, nature park authorities don’t allow ham radio contesters there. Fortunately it was the direction to the Alps (which are relatively near) so it didn’t bother us so much. There’s an old tourist outlook-tower on top of Champ de Feu, too, but unfortunately due to greens we weren’t allowed to use it for the contest, either. Our contest place was at the north side of the hill, about 30 meters below the top with the opening from the south-east to the south-west. Because of trees and the top of the hill to the south we lost about 100 degrees of the horizon. This might have been one of the reasons why we couldn’t make a better result in the European scope. Our French friends did a wonderful job and arranged an older caravan with 2 kW Honda power generator for us. The contest itself was a real success. There was a good propagation to the east and the callsign F/OK2KKW/p was exciting for many hams as well.
A big surprise for us was the way of contesting of French hams. They don’t run the contest over the night! They told us ham radio was fun and pleasure for them, but they didn’t like to be tired after the contest...I think, that this attitute of many French ops might prevent them from better results. Those mountains are otherwise really brilliant for VHF/UHF contesting. Distances to PA and G are at the average 400 - 500 km and the distance to Germany with the very high VHF/UHF activity is 100 to 200 km. This reduces the QRM from the strong local stations as we know it in our home QTH in the western part of Czech Republic. Due to a good propagation to the east we were able to make many QSOs to OK, too. Some stations were surprisingly strong. For a better imagination you could open our contest log here. Our best DX was to GM. We made a much better result then our local competitor F6HPP (a very good and well-known French station). For many stations we were the first F station (!) on 70 cm! It is still a mystery for us, why this large area is not better used by other F stations. There were no active stations on 70 cm at least 20 km around us! Concerning results we won this contest in France and in Czech Republic and took 5th place in the 70 cm multi op category in Europe.
F/OK2KKW/P JN38OJ - Výsledky / Results:
Poznámka: pro zobrazení některých statistik byl dodatečně použit SW Atalanta Locator ver. 12.29 Pocet WWL : 63 QSO v QRB
WWL : 33xJN49 32xJO31 32xJN48 22xJO40 18xJN39 17xJO21 ----------------
17xJN59 15xJN38 14xJO30 14xJN58 14xJN37 12xJO50 < 100 35x
11xJO22 11xJN18 10xJO60 10xJN47 10xIO91 9xJO01 100 - 199 85x
8xJO20 8xJN19 7xJO61 7xJO02 7xJN09 5xJO51 200 - 299 69x
5xJO42 5xJO10 5xJN79 5xJN69 4xJO43 4xJO41 300 - 399 107x
4xJO32 4xJN36 4xJN29 4xIO92 3xJO33 3xJO11 400 - 499 53x
3xJN26 3xIO90 2xJO80 2xJO72 2xJO70 2xJO62 500 - 599 41x
2xJO53 2xJN89 2xJN57 2xIO93 2xIO81 2xIN99 600 - 699 28x
2xIN97 2xIN89 1xJO52 1xJO44 1xJO23 1xJO00 700 - 799 15x
1xJN78 1xJN44 1xJN35 1xJN27 1xJN25 1xJN17 800 - 899 3x
1xIO80 1xIN98 1xIN87 > 900 0x
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Hodina QSO Body Pr. DX Znacka S SV V JV J JZ Z SZ
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14-15 36 9463 262 529 DJ9KH/P 15 7 1 2 2 1 4 4
15-16 59 21632 366 795 GW6ZUQ 7 25 4 1 2 - 5 15
16-17 38 8198 215 462 OK1KVK/P 4 18 7 4 4 - - 1
17-18 36 12934 359 654 G8VOI/P 11 4 1 2 2 - 6 10
18-19 25 7928 317 768 F6KPQ/P 4 2 9 - 2 - 6 2
19-20 26 9444 363 690 GJ4ZUK/P 9 5 1 - 1 - 3 7
20-21 25 8643 345 810 G6YXT 9 4 2 1 1 - 5 3
21-22 24 8029 334 544 OK1DPU/P 11 6 2 - - - 1 4
22-23 9 2640 293 702 GU3EJL 2 2 2 1 - - 2 -
23-24 13 3592 276 544 F1BJD/P 3 3 3 - - - 2 2
00-01 9 2100 233 455 PA3BPC/P 2 3 1 1 - 1 - 1
01-02 5 1752 350 456 PI4KEI 2 1 1 - - - - 1
02-03 5 2155 431 677 DK0FFO/P - 5 - - - - - -
03-04 5 2804 560 682 DL0HU/P 4 - - - - - - 1
05-06 8 4001 500 700 G4MKF 5 2 - - - - - 1
06-07 10 4412 441 797 G2CIW 1 2 - - - - 1 6
07-08 16 3889 243 516 DG6IAR/P 1 8 4 1 1 - 1 -
08-09 17 6250 367 742 OK2PWY/P 5 3 8 - - 1 - -
09-10 18 7124 395 560 DL8QS 11 2 - - - - - 5
10-11 11 3081 280 566 DG1VL 1 6 2 - - 2 - -
11-12 13 7411 570 862 G4IDR - 2 - - - - 1 10
12-13 16 6834 427 714 OK2TT/P - 2 8 4 1 - - 1
13-14 12 3666 305 633 OK1KEP/P 1 4 5 - - - - 2
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Celkem 436 147982 339 862 G4IDR 108 116 61 17 16 5 37 76
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CUAGN on 70 cm OK1VPZ - August 2000 PS OK1TEH to imagine: The exactly the same QTH is home contest place of radioclub F6KQV http://ref67.free.fr/contest%20juin2005.html
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