Some fun in the 144 MHz NAC/LYAC tonight

It’s been a while since I participated more seriously in the only 4 hour long NAC (Nordic Activity Contest) and LYAC (Lithuanian Activity Contest) evenings which take place regularly every Tuesday and Thursday on different bands. Tonight was the first Tuesday of the month thus the 2 m slot. Had a lot of fun calling CQ myself for a tad over 2 hours resulting in the first 100 QSOs and then concentrating on working even longer distances afterwards. 😉

Condx were not good, there was a lot of QSB on the signals especially direction north and east (west was quite okay). Can’t remember that I ever struggled to copy Alex, UA2FT, with his 50 watts and 9 elements even on CW on the short 450 km path. Think it’s also been the first time that I could not work my good old friend Vidas, LY2SA, quite a pity. Only wish that just half of all the active Scandinavian stations would also participate in the regular 24 hour VHF contests! Boy, that would be fun for us up north … 😉

Contest Report from DH8BQA in JO73CE at 144 MHz
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Contest : NAC/LYAC June '15
Date    : 2015 Jun 02
Section : Open Class
QTH     : Woltersdorf

TX      : IC-7400, 700 W
RX      : IC-7400, MGF1302
Antenna : 10 ele DK7ZB, 20 mAGL, 70 mASL
Log     : TACLog by OZ2M, 1,995, http://www.qsl.net/oz2m

QSOs    :  123
-invalid:    1                                        points/QSO
-valid  :  122     QSO-points (*1)    :     52089            427
WWLs    :   53     WWL bonus (500)    :     26500            217
DXCCs   :   12     DXCC bonus (0)     :         0              0
                   ------------------------------         ------
                   Total score        :     78589            644

ODX     : SK0EN in JO99JX at 806 km

Worked World Wide Locators:
JN38:   1  JO40:   1  JO55:   4  JO65:  10  JO75:   3  JO93:   1
JN48:   2  JO41:   1  JO56:   1  JO66:   1  JO76:   1  JO96:   1
JN49:   2  JO42:   7  JO57:   3  JO67:   3  JO78:   1  JO99:   2
JO10:   1  JO43:   2  JO58:   2  JO68:   2  JO81:   1  JP80:   1
JO21:   1  JO44:   2  JO59:   5  JO69:   1  JO83:   1  KO04:   2
JO22:   1  JO45:   1  JO60:   2  JO70:   3  JO84:   1  KO15:   3
JO30:   2  JO46:   3  JO61:   2  JO71:   2  JO86:   3  KO16:   1
JO31:   9  JO47:   1  JO62:   4  JO73:   5  JO88:   1  KO24:   1
JO32:   5  JO50:   3  JO64:   1  JO74:   1  JO89:   1

Worked DXCCs:
DL :  43   LA :   5   OK :   1   OZ :  18   SM :  29   UA2:   2   
F  :   1   LY :   4   ON :   1   PA :   6   SP :  11   YL :   1   

Top 10 QSO-points:
20150602 2226 SK0EN          529      559       JO99JX      806 
20150602 2221 SM4BDQ         529      559       JP80FG      800 
20150602 2047 LA0BY          51       55        JO59IX      785 
20150602 1934 ON4KHG         55       55        JO10XO      759 
20150602 2223 SK0CT          539      539       JO99BM      745 
20150602 2120 SM5KWU         55       55        JO89IP      735 
20150602 1909 LA2Z           59       56        JO59EJ      730 
20150602 2156 YL2AJ          559      559       KO16OX      711 
20150602 2051 LA1T           55       55        JO59FE      707 
20150602 2054 LA3S           41       55        JO59CC      703 
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