DL6FBL
Operating from home: CQ WW DX 1997 and CQ WPX 1998

CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST - 1997 - SSB
Single OP/All Bands/Hi Pwr/unassisted

BAND QSO  PTS   P/Q   Z CTY
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160  144  131  0.91   5  42
 80  540  672  1.24  13  64
 40  669 1418  2.12  28 108
 20  949 2068  2.18  33 118
 15  738 1665  2.26  32 117
 10  116  213  1.84  13  47
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All 3156 6167  1.95 124 496 => 3,823,540

 CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST - 1997 - CW
Single OP/All Bands/Hi Pwr/unassisted

BAND QSO  PTS   P/Q   Z CTY
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160  179  207  1.16  11  53
 80  540  859  1.59  20  76
 40 1085 2618  2.41  31 100
 20  845 1990  2.36  29  91
 15  583 1480  2.54  33  99
 10   76  197  2.59  16  44
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All 3308 7351  2.22 140 463 => 4,432,653
CQ WORLD WIDE WPX CONTEST - 1998 - SSB
Single OP/All Bands/Hi Pwr/unassisted

BAND  QSO   PTS  P/Q  PFXS
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160    36    66  1.8    5
 80   340   700  2.1  129
 40   485  2282  4.7  201
 20  1142  2676  2.3  286
 15   627  1549  2.5  170
 10   227   452  2.0   81
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All  2857  7725  2.7  872 => 6,736,200

 CQ WORLD WIDE WPX CONTEST - 1998 - CW
Single OP/All Bands/Hi Pwr/unassisted

BAND  QSO   PTS  P/Q  PFXS
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160    37    74  2.0   11
 80   265   612  2.3  106
 40   617  2500  4.1  227
 20  1200  2727  2.3  358
 15   148   293  2.0   46
 10    56   105  1.9   19
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All  2323  6311  2.7  767 => 4,840,537

Equipment: 2x Kenwood TS-850S + amps

160: dipole inv vee @ 17m-5m
 80: elevated vertical
 40: 2-ele Quad @ 24m
 20: 3-ele Quad @ 24m and/or 3-ele Quad @ 18m
 15: 3-ele Quad @ 24m and/or 3-ele Quad @ 18m
 10: 3-ele Quad @ 24m and/or 3-ele Quad @ 18m

Club Affiliation: Bavarian Contest Club (BCC)

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DL6FBL's Station Setup
Left: My operating setup end of October 1997. In the center is the Ameritron amp. In the left hand are two monitors for K1EA's CT. The PC's are under the table, connected with COM-ports [Ethernet today]. Right hand from the amp you can see the manual antenna switchboard for the multiplier station [which is now replaced by a combination of homebrew HF relay box (6-in/2-out) and two TopTen band decoders]. More to the right is the Packet PC. Packet support comes in over the local digipeater DB0FUL on 438.175 MHz. Directly under the Ameritron is the multiplier station (Kenwood TS-850S with BCC preselector [now replaced by a Dunestar filter]). Left hand are the control units for the two rotators. More to the left is the running station (another Kenwood TS-850S with BCC preselector, [now replaced by an Icom IC-775DSP and a Dunestar filter; the second Kenwood has "backup function" now]). Left hand from the running station are the control units for the coax power splitters (each one for 10, 15, and 20m, all modified Ameritron RCS-8Vs). I can select: only Quad 1, only Quad 2 or both Quads simultanously. Having separate feedlines on both Quads enables me to independently choose antenna combinations PER BAND. CW comes out of the PC or an ETM-8c or my old ETM-4c. Using that equipment I operated CQ WW DX SSB (unassisted - no cluster support).
Right: The shack is measuring 5m x 10m (15' x 30'). This corner provides some stuff needed often or not so often. As always: the part needed most urgently is not there. There are reserve rigs, reserve amps, VHF/UHF/SHF stuff, Wire, Cables, Spare Parts, Tools, Skiing stuff, portable Beds, Sleeping Bag, big Tent (for parties, 4x6m), and, and, and.
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DL6FBL's "Big Quad" (I)
Left: Three elements for 10/15/20m and two (fullsize) elements for 40m on a 24m Tower. The boom length is 8.5m. Each fiberglass spreader measures 7.8m from the centerpoint - this makes 15.6m from end to end or 10.5m vertically and horizontally. The end points of the boom are used for guying the Quad in itself with 3mm polyester rope. The antenna is fed with four seperate lines of low loss coax (quarter wavelength 75 Ohm coax in line). About 0.3m over the boom there is a single six metres long 144 MHz yagi from M².
Right: A snapshot which also shows the house. The QTH is situated in an industrial park in Fulda, Germany. I own the company "BOC Computersysteme GmbH". We are VAR and do system integrating on all levels from the PC to the mainframe, including Cat.5 and fiber optics cabling, hardware and software installation and on-site support. We are also working as Internet Service Provider for our local customers (corporate and private). We are concentrating on the technical part - providing good platforms, not contents... If you feel that we could help you, contact me under my business Email address: bernd.och@boc.de.
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DL6FBL's "Small Quad" and 80m Vertical in Front
Left: My "small" Quad has three elements for 10/15/20m on a 18m Tower. Electrically this antenna is the same as my "big" Quad (only 6m lower and without 40m). Because I can switch between my two Quads on the fly, I sometimes find that the "small one" produces better signals than the "big one", sometimes vice versa, often the same, depending on propagation and radiation angles. The Vertical in front is for 80m. It is 21m long and stands upon a small hill. There are six elevated radials. In the meantime the Vertical is on top of the house - in the middle of the 5,000 sq.ft. flat aluminium roof...
Right: This is the 144 MHz setup, as I also use it from 950m a.s.l. Wasserkuppe mountain (JO40XL) for the last years. Locator of the place here is JO40UM (265m a.s.l.). There is elevation in all headings, but mostly less than 1 degree. From 60 through 150 degrees azimuth there is a four degree elevation - which really blocks me from the Eastern directions. On HF I really have got problems towards Japan and VK/ZL short path. On the other hand 200 metres to the West there is the river Fulda with a lot of wet land behind - I guess that helps a little towards the Americas... The rig is a modified Kenwood TS-711A and an old Henry 2002 with 2x 8874 (which makes 700 watts out of the 25 watts in). On top of the transceiver you see a matchbox and the sequence controller, which protects the preamp on top of the tower.

DL6FBL, 28/02/00
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