July VHF contest is usually the VHF contest I participate as a single operator. Again so this year. Result is on par with those of the last few entries. It’s been a few years since breaking the 400 QSOs barrier from up here.
VHFREG1 Summary Sheet
CallSign Used : DH8BQA
Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : 2M
Power : HIGH
Gridsquare : JO73CE
Band Mode QSOs Pts Pt/Q
144 CW 78 38172 489,4
144 USB 288 109595 380,5
Total Both 366 147767 403,7
Score : 147.767
Rig : IC-9700 + PA
Antennas : 10 ele DK7ZB Yagi
Should be good enough for a Top 3 finish. No specialties, you could call it business as usual. A good number of CW in the mix and almost 100 x OK/OM wkd. Activity in SP was quite good as well (20 stations) and besides the usual 2 x YU I even managed to work a YO again (and two more heard!).
On the other hand just one LY in the log which was disappointing as they normally have their national VHF fieldday that weekend, too, and you can easily work 8-10 stations at least. Not sure why there was nobody on this time, maybe they changed something or even skipped the contest for some political reasons? Who knows.
These were the QSOs above 800 km:
20220702 2158 144 MHz CW YT4B JN94SD 1079 20220702 2309 144 MHz CW IQ5NN JN63GN 1078 20220702 2234 144 MHz CW YU7ACO KN05RD 1037 20220702 2154 144 MHz CW 9A0V JN95PE 963 20220702 2321 144 MHz CW YR5C KN16JS 940 20220703 0650 144 MHz USB TM5R JN19BQ 923 20220702 2327 144 MHz CW 9A7D JN95CI 918 20220702 2311 144 MHz CW 9A1N JN85LI 894 20220703 1329 144 MHz CW 9A1E JN85QT 852 20220702 1710 144 MHz USB HG3X JN96EE 834 20220702 2120 144 MHz USB S59DEM JN75DS 825