Contesting

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From the early days of my ham activity I liked very much participating in contests. Actually, I was joining the DLØFC contest team as second operator before being licensed.

The first years saw me mostly on 2m from locations around my home QTH near Frankfurt in the central part of Germany. Later, I went to various places more fare away, such as Luxemburg, the Champ-du-Feu mountain in the French Vosges mountains just for the contests, or for combined business trips with participations from various locations in Italy.

In 2m contests I usually was operating with an IC245 barefoot with 10W or with small power amplifiers of max. 80W. I tested various antenna systems, from 1x9 ele over 2x7 ele to maximum 2x13 ele. Resulsts were not so bad, but being low power with no separate category I did not end up under the Top Ten. Since many years I don't participate in 2m contests anymore, with my IC746 however I could run 100W into 2x7 ele - let's see when I will re-start my 2m activities.

Besides some "just-for-fun" participations in the big contests whenever time was available, I started in the early 2000s to operate from outside Germany with a little bit more success. Being first in my category in the country from where I worked, was usually not really a challenge, as in those categories there were no OM seriously participanting. However, I managed in some of the contests to be under the worldwide Top Ten of my participation category - but always still far (far) away from the points of the 1st place station......

Anyway, I still enjoy it, and if the final result is better than the last time, I'm happy. Even though I'm asking myself after each and ever 36-40 hour contest "why the hell am I doing this?"  ;-))

Here are some of the results out of the past years. CQ WPX - CQWW - Others

DL7BC CQ WW Phone 2018 - 1.004.456 points submitted Rig: TS590SG + HVLA1K3+ (750W)+ OB11-5 + OB1-4030 + Windom Category High Power Single Operator (Non-Assisted) All-Band Classic (max. 24h) 3rd place Germany - 19th place Europe - 56th place World (raw score)

TO2BC CQ WPX Phone 2018 - 3.845.798 points Rig: TS590SG + HVLA1K3+ (500W) + 4-Band Spiderbeam (10-40m) + Dipol (80m) Category High Power Single Operator (Assisted) All Band 1st place French Guiana ;-) - 3rd place Southamerica - 28th place World

DL7BC CQ WW Phone 2017 - 1.177.908 points Rig: TS870 + TL922 (750W) + OB11-5 + OB1-4030 + Windom Klasse High Power Single Operator (Non-Assisted) All-Band Classic (max. 24h) 2nd place Germany - 5th place Europe - 18th place World

DL7BC WAE DX Contest Phone 2017 - 105.975 points Rig: TS870 + TL922 (750W) + OB11-5 + OB1-4030 + Windom Category High Power Single Operator (Assisted) All-Band 6th place Germany - 13th place Europe

DL7BC WAE DX Contest Phone 2016 - 586.065 points Rig: TS870 + TL922 (750W) + OB11-5 + OB1-4030 + Windom Category High Power Single Operator (Assisted) All-Band 5th place Germany - 25. place Europe

5B/DL7BC WAE DX Contest Phone 2015 - 693.463 points Rig: IC746 (100W) + 2ele on 10m, Dipole 15m, GPAs for 20/40/80m Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All-Band 2nd place Cyprus - 5th place Asia - 11th place World

DL7BC CQ WPX Phone 2015 - 1.011.960 points Rig: IC746 (100W) + 2ele-SteppIR (10/15/20m) + Windom (40/80m) Category High Power Single Operator (Assisted) Single Band 10m 4th place Germany - 11th place Europe - 19th place World

TC2BC (licence holder TA1HZ, Operator DL7BC) CQ WW Phone 2014 - 2.645.764 points Rig: IC746 (100W) + 2ele-SteppIR (10/15/20m) + Windom (40/80m) Catecory Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All-Band 1st place Turkey - 1st place Asia, 7th place World

TO7BC (FH Mayotte island) CQ WPX phone 2014 - 1.166.562 points Rig: Icom 746 (100W) + Spiderbeam (10/15/20m) + Dipole (40m) Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Mayotte - 2nd place Africa - 58th place World 27th place World overlay tribander/single element wire

TC2BC (licence holder TA1HZ, Operator DL7BC) CQ WW Phone 2013 - 34.385 points Rig: IC735 (100W) + Windom Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) Single Band 15m 1st place Turkey - 17th place Asia - 70th place World (197 QSOs in a break during my team operation at TC9ØA)

TO7BC (FH Mayotte island) CQ WPX phone 2013 - 2.288.776 points Rig: Icom 746 (100W) + Spiderbeam (10/15/20m) + Triple-Leg (40m) Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Mayotte - 1st place Africa - 12th place World 6th place World overlay tribander/single element wire

DL7BC (after many years this time from "home" again) CQ WW Phone 2012 - 1.226.907 points Rig: Kenwood TS 870 (100W) + 8-ele Titanex LogPeriodic (10/15/20m) + Windom 40/80/160m) Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 2nd place Germany - 10th place Europe - 38th place World

TO7BC (FH Mayotte island) CQ WPX phone 2012 - 3.172.628 points - first time ever winning a trophy ;-) Rig: Yaesu FT920 (100W) + Spiderbeam (10/15/20m) + Triple-Leg (40m) Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Mayotte - 1st place Africa - 18th place World 3rd place World overlay tribander/single element wire

TA2/DL7BC CQ WW phone 2011 - 2.228.940 points Rig: Icom 7000 (100W) + 2-ele SteppIR (10/15/20m) + G5RV (40/80/160m) Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Turkey - 2nd place Asia - 16th place World

CN2BC CQ WPX phone 2011 - 2.639.091 points Rig: Icom 7000 (100W) + 5-ele-3-bander + sloper Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Morocco - 2nd place Africa - 19th place World 6th place World overlay tribander/single element wire

TA2/DL7BC CQ WW phone 2010 - 1.964.088 points Rig: Icom 7000 (100W) + Spiderbeam (10/15/20m) + G5RV (40/80m) Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Turkey - 3rd place Asia - 8th place World

CN2BC CQ WPX phone 2010 - 4.416.000 points Rig: Icom 7000 (100W) + 5-ele-3-bander + sloper Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Morocco - 1st place Africa - 5th place World 1st place World overlay tribander/single element wire

TA2/DL7BC CQ WW phone 2009 - 1.198.528 points Rig: Icom 7000 (100W) + G5RV Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Turkey - 2nd place Asia - 12th place World

CN2BC CQ WPX phone 2009 - 4.208.064 points Rig: Icom 7000 (100W) + 5-ele-3-bander + sloper Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Morocco - 1st place Africa - 2nd place World 1st place World overlay tribander/single element wire

DL7BC CQ WW 160 Meter phone 2009 - 121.016 points Rig: Icom 7000 (100W) + G5RV Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 2nd place Germany - 19th place Europe

TA2/DL7BC CQ WW phone 2008 - 684.216 points Rig: Icom 7000 (100W) + G5RV Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Turkey - 5th place Asia

CN2BC CQ WPX phone 2008 - 4.698.140 points Rig: Icom 7000 (100W) + 5-ele-3-bander + sloper Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Morocco - 1st place Africa - 6th place World 1st place World overlay tribander/single element wire

TA1/DL7BC CQ WPX phone 2007 - 752.719 points Rig: Icom 746 (100W) + G5RV Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place European Turkey

CN2BC CQ WW phone 2007 - 2.196.784 points Rig: Icom 7000 (100W) + 5-ele-3-bander + sloper Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Morocco - 1st place Africa - 9th place World

V31HK CQ WW phone 2006 - 263.206 points Rig: Kenwood TS50 (100W) + Spiderbeam Category Low Power Single Op.(Non Assisted) Single Band 20m 1st place Belize - 4th place North America

CN2BC CQ WPX phone 2005 - 3.414.810 points Rig: Kenwood TS850S (100W) + 5-ele-3-bander + sloper Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Morocco - 1st place Africa - 6th place World

DL4ZBC CQ WPX phone 2004 - 578.675 points Rig: Icom 726 (100W) + 8-ele-LogPeriodic + G5RV Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 3rd place Germany

TA1/DL4ZBC CQ WW phone 2002 - 334.951 points Rig: Icom 726 (100W) + Windom Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 2nd place European Turkey

HBØ/DL4ZBC/p CQ WW phone 1990 - 52.992 points Rig: Icom 726 (100W) + Windom Category Low Power Single Operator (Non Assisted) All Band 1st place Liechtenstein