[Moon-net] 144 Mhz EA3DXU Memorial CW contest

[Oene]

Hello All,

It was fun again in this EA3DXU Memorial contest.
On both days I experienced that condx were getting better in the 
late afternoon and great part of the evening.
Signals I have heard were from time to time very loud.  I have never 
heard RU1AA this loud and he must have changed his amp or cleaned 
the array :-)) Congrats Alex !!!
All stations that I worked were from time to time very loud here and 
especially OK1KKD was long time audible, which I never had heard 
before.  
One strange thing was that I could not get the attention from 
Claude F3VS and have called him all in all for over an hour but not 
only qrz.  When I was pointing SW at over 50 degr. elevation I could 
hear loud tropo from Claude, but direct path lies due south. Maybe his 
pattern has changed and I also saw that Wolfgang did not work F3VS.

I was glad to work Noriyuki JH0WJF for the 1st time random. The only
qso with him was over a year ago in sked.
Also very nice to hear Gerald K5GW again and I had the change to 
make a nice recording of RU1AA working K5GW who is called by 
LZ2US and somewhat later worked by SV1BTR. Nice to hear 
the 4 big guns Alex Gerald Marko and Jimmy on one recording all with
very nice signals.

My several hours of CQ over both days have not been helpful and I 
know from Wolfgang DL5MAE that he has called me, but no copy here.
Think I am too much qrp for this in the long run and maybe have to 
improve my RX and place my LNA in top instead as in the shack.

I worked the following 16 stations:
RU1AA, OK1MS, SV1BTR, SP7DCS, DK3EE, F1FLA, YO9FRJ, 
OK1KKD, LZ2US, IK2DDR, OZ1HNE, K9MRI, JH0WJF, YO2AMU, 
F0CXO, K5GW

Heard were: SM2CEW, F3VS, RX1AS, YU7XL, CT1HZE, I3EVK, 
SM2A, OK1VVP, IT9CJC, RA6DA, K5QE, SV3AAF, DL5MAE, K9DX


Thanks all for the fun and till next month !!

Vy 73 Oene
PA3CWN
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