I participated today for 2½ hours in the #IARU #VHF #Marconi #CW #Contest and made 16 contacts. Conditions were not great and most contacts were between 200 and 300 km.

Rig was as usual for short VHF operations the FT-818 and an HB9CV antenna.

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#IARU #UHF DL: Platz 5 bei 70cm -nehme ich! \o/
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https://dxhf2.darc.de/~ukwlog/conteste/2025/2025-10/result/result.html

The plan was to participate in the #IARU #UHF #Contest from the 1284 m tall Schauinsland (SOTA: DM/BW-008) in the Black Forest.

Due to bad weather (storm, rain) we had to cancel this plan and participated from a spur above the city of Freiburg instead. Roughly 900 m lower than planned.

While erecting the quad series antenna, one element broke and we had to use our backup antenna, a simple HB9CV. (1/2)

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IARU R1 VHF contest 2025
Band Mode QSOs Pts Pt/Q
144 CW 15 4852 323,5
144 USB 105 25564 243,5
Total Both 120 30416 253,5

The best was IP0A at JN40PQ 863km

The shack upgrades really made a difference to last years performance. The new Q5 transverter performed well. My only mistake was forgeting to mod my ts590sg to be able to tx on the whole vhf band hehe.

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This was quite a successful #hamradio #amateurradio #amateurfunk weekend from our 86 m high local hill in #POTA park #DE0315.

I participated in the #IARU #VHF #Contest and made yesterday 50 QSOs. Today I was station sharing with @siwli and made another 15 contest QSOs. In total, I had 65 QSOs on 2m with about 15k points and reached 9 DXCCs and 31 locator squares. ODX was 658 km to F8KID.

RIG: FT-818 + homebrew PA with 40 W out and 4 ele yagi antenna.

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