{"id":3119,"date":"2018-06-03T23:41:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dj5ar.de\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2018-06-05T09:33:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T08:33:46","slug":"2018-microwave-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/?p=3119","title":{"rendered":"Microwave Contest June 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>June 3rd, 2018<\/h4>\n<p>As can be noticed now, the fears, many Microwavers would prefer to go to the HAM RADIO fair in Friedrichshafen, were overdone. It was a nice contest and in the 23 and 13 cm sections I worked more stations than in the last contests in May and March, as well as in all previous microwave contests I participated in June before. As can be seen in the maps, my honey pot is the east.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3120\" style=\"width: 1051px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-23-cm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3120\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3120\" src=\"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-23-cm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1041\" height=\"823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-23-cm.png 1041w, https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-23-cm-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-23-cm-768x607.png 768w, https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-23-cm-1024x810.png 1024w, https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-23-cm-624x493.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">QSOs on 23 cm in Microwave Contest June 2018<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The signal levels were very strong and I managed to work HA5KDQ on 23 cm in SSB over a distance of 830 km via Aircraft Scatter (ODX). To be honest: I am sure, we would have been faster in using CW \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3121\" style=\"width: 1051px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-13-cm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3121\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3121\" src=\"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-13-cm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1041\" height=\"823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-13-cm.png 1041w, https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-13-cm-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-13-cm-768x607.png 768w, https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-13-cm-1024x810.png 1024w, https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-03-13-cm-624x493.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">QSOs on 13 cm in Microwave Contest June 2018<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Working on 13 cm was big fun and ODX was HG7F over 817 km in a quick QSO in CW (as usual). When I went to bed at night, I already had 22 QSOs on this band with an average of 457 km per QSO.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3119-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/wav\" src=\"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dj5ar-JN49-13cm.wav?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dj5ar-JN49-13cm.wav\">https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dj5ar-JN49-13cm.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Hannes, OE3JPC, was so kind, to send an audio record of my signal on 13 cm.<\/p>\n<p>First steps have been done on 3 cm. But there is a lot of potential for improvements.<\/p>\n<p>So it was not really a problem to quit two hours earlier to attend a barbecue with the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 3rd, 2018 As can be noticed now, the fears, many Microwavers would prefer to go to the HAM RADIO fair in Friedrichshafen, were overdone. It was a nice contest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[30,29,28,31,143],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest","tag-1296-mhz","tag-13-cm","tag-23-cm","tag-2320-mhz","tag-contest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}