[3830] ARRL 10 DR1A M/S HP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: DR1A
Operator(s): DB6JG DJ6ET DJ7EG DJ7EO DL6FBL DL9ECA
Station: DR1A

Class: M/S HP
QTH: JO31CQ
Operating Time (hrs): 25

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:  571   163
  SSB: 1336   168
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Total: 1907   331  Total Score = 1,640,436

Club: Bavarian Contest Club

Comments:

A very relaxed fun operation with our local crew. No big ambitions. DJ7EO and
DL6FBL operated in the mornings, DJ7EG and DL9ECA around noon, DJ6ET worked
most parts of the afternoon, and everybody took a seat at the second operating
position when available. Saturday night, when the band had closed, we went to a
local restaurant for an XMAS dinner, nice talking and a couple of drinks.

2011 was very successful for the DR1A team. We are claiming new EU continent
records for CQWPX SSB, CQWW SSB, and CQWW CW. We will now merge all 2010 and
2011 logs, and prepare for the next Auto-QSL batch soon. LotW has all QSOs up
to September, and the two CQWW and ARRL10 will be uploaded before XMAS.

We have completed our new system of Phased Beverages, and started experimenting
with dedicated RX antenna systems for the high bands, too. In the first step we
used L/4 verticals for 40/20/15/10m at the end of some loooooong 1/2" CellFlex
coax runs that we buried earlier this year (a total of 4000 meters...).
Some low-grade hotfixes to our interim RX switching system enabled us to listen
on the same band, WHILE we are transmitting! It works acceptable up to just a
few kHz away from our own TX signal. This is very helpful to dig out and work
multipliers from the second operating position with only very small impact
from/to the running station. It helped a big deal that we are now claiming the
highest multiplier number ever worked from any station in the CQWW CW contest
history!

The antenna plans for 2012 include a 3-ele 80m Yagi @55m, a second 3-ele 40m
Yagi @30m, a third 5/5 Stack for 10m, and a third antenna system (single 5-ele)
for 20m and 15m fixed to SA/AF.

We are also working on a central, modular RX
filtering/amplifying/levelling/DSP/distribution system called "The Box". All
available antennas shall be connected to that box, and any possible combination
of RX signals shall be made available to any operating position by software
control. If you feel that you can contribute to this project by
RF/hardware/software design, please get in touch with us. We are open - also
when you just want to share your own experience or want to participate in our
development results!

Irina (DL8DYL), Thorsten (DJ6ET), Aurelio (PC5A), and others were working hard
to bring up our new CMS based website at http://www.dr1a.com , which will make
it easier to keep the news and pictures flowing. We would love to see and read
your comments in our guestbook :-)

See you all again in the contests next year!

73 Ben
DL6FBL
for the team


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