We were very lucky with the tropo conditions again this weekend. I was QRV only 2 h in the evening and another 5 h in the morning. I should have brought 23cm and 3cm equipment as well, but I did not expect condx being that good. It would also not have been easy to handle more than 2 bands from single OP in such condx. 73, Stefan (LA0BY) PS: Sorry I had to correct the log for 70cm as the contact with F5SE/p was not complete. Contest Report from LA0BY in JO59IX at 144 MHz ============================================== Contest : Nordic Weekend Contest Date : 2007 May 05 to 2007 May 06 Section : C QTH : Tryvann TX : IC821H + PA (2 x MRF245), 180 W RX : IC821H Antenna : 2 x 9-ele-yagi, 6 mAGL, 520 mASL Log : TACLog by OZ2M, 1,994, http://www.qsl.net/oz2m QSOs : 105 -invalid: 0 Points/valid QSO -valid : 105 QSO-points (*1) : 94426 899 WWLs : 27 WWL bonus (500) : 13500 129 DXCCs : 6 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0 ------------------------------ ------ Total score : 107926 1028 ODX : F1ERG/P in JN27JJ at 1452 km Worked World Wide Locators: JN19: 1 JO20: 6 JO32: 4 JO43: 8 JO50: 1 JO54: 3 JN27: 1 JO21: 4 JO33: 3 JO44: 1 JO51: 1 JO67: 1 JN39: 1 JO22: 1 JO40: 4 JO45: 1 JO52: 1 JO68: 2 JO10: 2 JO30: 9 JO41: 11 JO46: 1 JO53: 2 JO78: 1 JO11: 2 JO31: 21 JO42: 12 Worked DXCCs: DL : 78 F : 2 ON : 10 OZ : 2 PA : 9 SM : 4 Top 10 QSO-points: 20070506 0444 F1ERG/P 55 035 55 138 JN27JJ 1452 20070506 0608 F5SE/P 52 054 55 017 JN19XH 1262 20070505 2126 OP5P/P 56 008 59 156 JO20UF 1130 20070506 0422 DK0BN 59 030 59 593 JN39VX 1128 20070506 0508 ON4POO 59 041 59 028 JO20DP 1114 20070506 0730 DF0BG 59 090 57 285 JO30JF 1112 20070505 2243 ON6ZT 55 024 55 222 JO10UU 1106 20070505 2122 ON4WY 56 006 59 170 JO11LC 1100 20070505 2131 ON8SI 55 011 59 041 JO10VV 1099 20070506 0657 DF0KO 54 070 59 064 JO30OH 1098 Nice ducting centered to western Germany, so the band was rather crowded over here. Was hoping for EA but reached only into F. Contest Report from LA0BY in JO59IX at 432 MHz ============================================== Contest : Nordic Weekend Contest Date : 2007 May 05 to 2007 May 06 Section : E QTH : Tryvann TX : IC821H + PA (2 x MRF648), 120 W RX : IC821H + preamp (MGF1302) Antenna : 17-ele-yagi, 7 mAGL, 520 mASL Log : TACLog by OZ2M, 1,994, http://www.qsl.net/oz2m QSOs : 49 -invalid: 1 Points/valid QSO -valid : 48 QSO-points (*1) : 42393 883 WWLs : 13 WWL bonus (500) : 6500 135 DXCCs : 4 DXCC bonus (0) : 0 0 ------------------------------ ------ Total score : 48893 1018 ODX : ON4POO in J020DP at 1114 km Worked World Wide Locators: JO31: 11 JO40: 2 JO42: 9 JO44: 2 JO53: 2 JO20: 2 JO32: 4 JO41: 2 JO43: 4 JO45: 1 JO56: 1 JO30: 5 JO33: 3 Worked DXCCs: DL : 41 ON : 2 OZ : 2 PA : 3 Top 10 QSO-points: 20070506 0511 ON4POO 57 022 57 011 JO20DP 1114 20070506 0733 DF0BG 56 030 59 068 JO30JF 1112 20070506 0550 ON4PS/P 59 027 55 067 JO20KQ 1097 20070505 2201 DR5A 57 009 57 177 JO30EM 1087 20070506 0527 DF1JM 59 025 59 152 JO30FQ 1068 20070506 0529 DH8IAB 59 026 59 118 JO30NO 1067 20070506 0738 DL0AAN 55 031 57 141 JO30ER 1064 20070506 0522 DH4FAJ/P 54 024 54 151 JO40AQ 1047 20070506 0428 DF0HS/P 57 017 55 082 JO31AA 1038 20070506 0744 DK2OY/P 59 032 59 163 JO40IT 1028 Almost as good tropo as on 2m, extremely loud signals over 1000km Ducting was exactly as predicted through Hepburn tropo maps. Unfortunately the contact with F5SE/p was not complete. He disappeared into the noise without copying my details.