Again supporting OV A24 in the Fieldday with their fine new club call DM1A. This was the 2nd contest with the new call after WAEDC CW.

As conds promised to be quite bad we decided to do more antenna work again and thus chose OC category, which means unlimited antennas and high power!

With the help of some farm machines and the new crank up portable tower it was possible to mount both beams together onto one tower, separated by abt 2m. We tried the full length of the tower (17m), but above 14m the whole thing got too unstable and so we stopped at abt 14m for safety reasons.
But the height was satisfactory, this year the Moxon really outperfomed the Windom, so most QSO were made on 40m, a new experience as 40m normally is the difficult band from here.

Generally conds were quite bad (but what should one expect in the bottom of the sun spot cycle?)
Nevertheless 9 countries made it into the log on 10m including a QSY with an EI-station from 20 over 15 to 10!

Weather conditions were great during the weekend, bright sunshine during friday afternoon and saturday, some mist on sunday morning, but again sunny during disassembling which took only 1 hour this year. (our record for OC)

See you again in 2006!