Results of the 10th BCC Meteor Scatter Contest Geminides Shower 1999 by DL1MAJ & Dl5MAE Category I - Single OP Pl. Call QSOs Points Pfx Score QTH Loc Equipment ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 RU1AA 64 187 44 8228 KP40XD 2x16ele,1Kw 2 EU6MS 46 138 37 5106 KO45IN 2x9ele,700 W 3 9A4FW 48 144 35 5040 JN95JG 4x17 ele,600 W 4 RW1AW 44 130 37 4810 KP50EB 2x19ele,2xGU74b 5 DL5MAE 37 111 29 3219 JN58VF 8x17ele,700 W 6 S51AT 27 81 24 1944 JN75GW 16ele,400W 7 DL1MAJ 26 78 22 1716 JN68AH 2x17ele,750W 8 LY2SA 22 66 21 1386 KO14LL 16ele,300W 9 RX1AS 21 63 20 1260 KO59FX 4x18ele,GS35b 10 DD0VF 20 60 17 1020 JO61WB 10ele,400W 11 F6CRP 18 54 18 972 IN96KE 2x17ele,300W 12 DL4NAA 18 54 16 864 JN49NX 2x15ele,750W 13 LZ2FO 17 51 16 816 KN13KX 15ele,500W 14 LA0BY 17 51 15 765 JO59FW 9ele,500W 15 HB9FAP 16 48 15 720 JN47CE 16ele,1KW 16 DF8IK 15 45 15 675 JO30JT 11ele,300W 17 I5WBE 12 36 12 432 JN53JR 4x17ele,300W DL5WG 12 36 12 432 JO52VK 2x11ele,150W 19 DJ2QV 11 33 11 363 JO31OM 2x9ele,150 W DL7USD/p 11 33 11 363 JO72HN 7ele,60W 21 S51MQ 10 30 10 300 JN75NT 4x7ele,500W 22 RK3AF 11 33 9 297 KO85QR 16ele,2xGI7b 23 HA5OV 10 30 9 270 JN97NJ 2x13ele,1.3Kw 24 F8DO 10 30 8 240 JN26IF 11ele,500W 25 ON4KHG 9 25 8 200 JO10WK 9ele,130W 26 DL1SUZ 7 21 7 147 JO53UN 2x11ele,750W G0CUZ 7 21 7 147 IO82WM 5ele,2x3CX400 DL3HRT 7 21 7 147 JO61AB 10ele,100 W PE1HWO 7 21 7 147 JO21GV 17ele,400W DL8EBW 7 21 7 147 JO31NF 11ele,500W 31 DF8AA 6 18 6 108 JO60XX 17ele,100W YZ7UN 6 18 6 108 KN05FJ 2x7ele,70W ON4FI 6 18 6 108 JO20IV 15ele, 600W HB9MS 6 18 6 108 JN46LA ?, 8877Pa 35 LZ2KZ 5 15 5 75 KN33FC 11ele,25W DF0BV 5 15 5 75 JN68AH 2x17ele,750W IZ1BPN 5 15 5 75 JN35VG 17ele,600W 38 DH5FS 4 12 4 48 JO61UA 9ele,120W OK1UAK 4 12 4 48 JO70MB 10ele,55W LZ1AG 4 12 4 48 KN22ID 14ele,100W 41 PA2TAB 4 10 4 40 JO32GF 14ele,100W 42 LZ1KJ 3 9 3 27 KN31CS 10ele,150W LZ1ZP 3 9 3 27 KN22ID 14ele,100W 44 N0UK 2 6 2 12 EN34JV 12ele,300W 45 DL1ELY 1 3 1 3 JO31IO 17ele,100W IT9VDQ 1 3 1 3 JM68QC 9ele,200W YO3JW 1 3 1 3 KN34CK Category II - Multi OP Pl. Call QSOs Points Pfx Score QTH Loc Equipment ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 YU7MS 77 231 54 12474 KN05EF 4x4+11ele,GS35b 2 OH8UV 19 57 18 1026 KP34VJ 2x14ele,130 W 3 DL0UL 13 39 13 507 JN48KX 11ele,400W 4 DL0LSW 10 30 10 300 JO61XU 17ele,750W 5 LZ5Z 6 18 6 108 KN12PR 2x15ele,1Kw Multi OP - Team: YU7MS : YU7KB, YU7MS, YU7ON, YU7PS, YU7VA, YU7RS-844 OH8UV : OH8HDL, OH8UV DL0UL : DL1GGT, DL5EBT, DL6SAQ DL0LSW : DH0EE DH6ICE DH3FEN DL6UAL LZ5Z : LZ1JK LZ5UV LZ2HM =================================================================== W I N N E R S: YU7MS and RU1AA are winner of electronic memory keyers ! Diploma goes to the first three places In both classes Congratulation to the Winners ! Many thank to everybody, who participated in this contest ! Vy 73, Wolfgang, DL5MAE & Alex, DL1MAJ =================================================================== Soapbox ======= YU7MS: First of all, we wish to thank to the organization committee of the MS BCC contest for their fruitful efforts in the past ten years. We, also wish to express our congratulations for the anniversary for this event. The popularity of MS has increased, thanks to the MS BCC contest. Apparent is the increase in number of participants, year after year. Without this contest there would not be such a beautiful activity at a year end. This year the schedule for the contest did not match the activity of the meteor-shower. We believe that it would have been better if the contest had been extended until 08 GMT or even for one more night. We have not had much luck the first night, but later, everything was much better. The night between 13th and 14th was real great for us. We enjoyed contacting our old friends one more time. We had some changes in our team and we found that this year's team was a good combination of experience and youth. A few stations had distorted CW signal and we responded with 'UUU' in hope that they would understand the message. We congratulate to the winners. We thank all contestants who called us. 73 GL, YU7KB, YU7MS, YU7ON, YU7PS, YU7VA, YU7RS-844 ON4KHG As usual a very pleasant contest, in spite of the fact that I found the activity lower this year and reflections shorter. It didn't notice any real maximum and on my side, it was not the firework sometimes announced on the DX cluster. I recorded ten sound files amongst which four are replayed at low speed. You can listen them on my Web site. Http://www.qsl.net/on4khg Best 73's and see you next year ON4FI great contest... very gd reflexions during the whole contest from EU6MS and RU1AA LZ1AG&LZ1ZP We are here again(and will be in the future..)!This time it was harder, because there were very strong local stations around .100 (except on 14th of December). 73’ and cuagn Angel & George IT9VDQ At last I'm again qrv from my new home qth! Not the big array of my dreams, but a little station just to be qrv, and enjoy, on MS! See you during Quadrantids 2000. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Best 73's and good CW MS-DX from Gius IZ1BPN Many thanks for nice contest: it is always one of the best chance of fun for MS. HB9FAP I have to thank very much my very good friend Michael HB9JAW, who gave me the opportunity to use his beautiful station to operate during the BCC MS contest! I decided not to participate in the contest because of too much QRL. But on 13th December ’99 at around 22 UTC I decided to call Michael and asked him if it would be possible to make some hours of activity from his QTH. Michael had nothing against my proposal, so… 2 hours later I was there… I am very satisfied about my result and the activity during the few hours of the contest when I was active. It’s absolutely great what it‘s possible to do on back/side scatter during the geminids shower! Most of my QSOs were made with my antenna beaming between 40 and 60 degrees. The QSO with Andy, HB9MS (=HB9SUL) gave us a new „shortest distance MS QSO“ between JN47CE to JN46LA. After our QSO Andy told me that he was beaming to the north. My antenna was beaming to 45 degrees! Another interesting QSO for me was with 9A4FW: I received his answer to my CQ when I was beaming exactly to the north. I decided then, during our QSO, to find an optimum azimut (no risk to loose him because of many reflections from him). Well, between 0 and 120 degrees there was for me no any “best” direction! Everywhere I was beaming my antenna, he was to hear, and how! The strongest reflections at all for me were probably coming from HA6NY: what a firework! During my activity (14th december: 01-06 UTC, 22-02 UTC on 15th) I didn’t recognise any clear maximum. I just think that the strongest reflections were between 02 and 04 UTC on 14th december. Unfortunately when the contest was finished the reflections were still great. One more night could have been very welcome to make some more QSOs by many OMs. I thank you all very much for the great contest and activity and wishing all the best for the year 2000 I hope to see you again next year in the BCC Contest! Vy best 73’s de HB9FAP, Fabio. G0CUZ The first morning (12th) I was QRV from 0100z till 0600z, only four stations heard and I worked three of them. Extremely bad conditions, reflections very short and weak. On one occasion beaming South towards Spain, I discovered that each TX period I was setting of my neighbours Car anti-theft alarm - this at 3.00am, I did not have the nerve to tell him why, as he had several visits to his car in his pyjamas ! ! I decided that it was not such a good idea to beam this direction again. The morning of the 15th conditions were much much better but contest ending at 0200z - pity. Through-out the contest the most consistent and good signal here was from 9A4FW heard many times with good bursts. See you next year. 73 Colin YZ7UN: This is my first contest with my personal call LY2SA I had free time only last evening of the contest. Sorry, QRL... Reflections were very strong and long and I had a real pile up. I heard 2-3 stations on my CQ-F frequency, but can't worked all stations at the one time. 73! de Vidas. F6CRP Not too much time devoted to BCC this year unfortunately due to QRL. I was on air only during the night and absent for the maximum. A big tempest occured on the atlantic during this event, the QRN was heavy with wind up to 50 kts ! So sorry for those calling without reply from my part...I found the activity was quite good and make 8 new initials on MS. So tnx again for this nice contest, i ‘ll be there next year ! Happy new year! DL5MAE Great contest with good activity! Especially Bulgarian (8 QSOs) and Spanish stations (7 QSOs) gave me a lot of QSOs. On the other side I did not hear ANY (!) SM-station. Also missed the regular OH-stations. Perhaps the big storm a few days ago produced lot of aluminium junk up in the north? Only sigs heard from Sweden was SK4MPI beacon. The shower had no specific peak this year but was good in the nights of the 13th and 14th of December. I suppose the best time was probably fallen when the shower was under the horizon (during day-time). By the way, I did some visual observation for a short while, too. When the sky cleared for some time at the 13th I saw 4 meteors within 10 minutes (around 2200utc). 9A4FW It’s nice to be QRV again in BCC MS contest after 2 years. This year shower was really good with very broad maximum. Activity was also very good, but think little lower than 1997., when I was last time QRV in BCC MS contest. Four night is really enough for one operator, so I was sleeping next 2 days...hi. Best wishes from Croatia and see You next year in BCC MS contest again, Zeljko. I5WBE This is my second participation in BCC MS Contest. Unfortunately this time I had some TVI problem for the first time, so I transmitted with many panic, but I made more QSO then 1998. I worked all stations beam to NNE so mni QSO via side scatter, because in other directions I had not reflections. It's fantastic receive 3 or 4 bursts in the same time but it's diffcult (for me) decode the calls, why don't use more QRG ? Another avoid to use CQ B CQ C near to .100, so mni time there was QRM from stations calling CQ. Many thanks to the BCC team for this vy nice contest, see you again in Y2K ! HA7UL Hi All. Sorry I was ill this time. My very short log from Geminids. So I think , it was not my shower. Excuse me, PA2DWH , I hrd you with 47 , but I had QSO with DL9MS. I HRD UA3PTW , PA3FOC ( calling him about 20 times , but no answer) DF1BN, and too mni other stn-s. Thanks for all. HB9MS My comment to the log is that unfortunately I had to travel to Rome the 14th so, I spent only a little time over the night. Anyway I slept only 4 hrs. All qso were made in backscatter. Fabio HB9FAP and I, lowered our minimum MS-QRB from the previous 156km to 142km. He was in JN47CE this time. I hrd many callsigns but it had been difficult to get trought from my qth in the middle of the Alps. 73 es QSL via my home call HB9SUL. DD0VF As usual murphy visit me in Geminids since 1996 every year. The amp failed at midnight 12/13.dec. including the AC. So IC275H barfoot 13.-15. Dec (pwr set to 100W some years ago-it's down to 88W now + the cable loss gives me 65W at the antenna only....) Very nice activity by the bulgarian ms'ers! Interesting stupid path to UR5BAE 15.12. 00:00-01:30. I hrd him on a few reflections only, but I heard often nice reflections by IK0BZY (on sidescatter), who was calling DF1BN on same qrg. The longest burst was 42 sec by I5WBE (see above). Often I heard IZ4AIK with oustanding signal, when I was beaming east (90 deg offset), with some of more than 10sec and one 24sec burst. The BCC-MS-TEST gave me much fun again and I enjoy this more than the squarehunting via ms. My destination was 25 QSO, but i am satisfied under this circumstances with my score of 20 QSO. Thanks for answer on my qrp-cq, cu u in Geminids 2000.... LZ1KJ This year I am pleased with the good reflections via Geminides ! I received good and powerful bursts.The best conditions were from 18:00 to 00 GMT for stations from West. Because of technical problems with my PA I had lower activity (sorry). I hope in the next contest (year 2000) everything will be OK ! I wish a happy new year to all participants, 73 LZ1KJ. DL8EBW Almost everyone seems to use the IARU letter system, but there are still stations, which do not understand the system. The activity was a little bit lower compared to the previous years (maybe because of the good Leonids?). Many thanks to the BCC team for organizing this contest since 10 years now.... DL3HRT I had a lot of fun during my first participation in BCC MS contest and worked several stations without any problems with my new DTR. The activity was very nice, but operators did not spread out on 144.100 Mhz. The reflections were short, but I worked four new squares and YU7MS gave me a new country. I will be qrv for sure next year again with a better antenna system.... PE1HWO Very nice shower to work HS-CW. Longest burst received from EU6MS, 11sec. S51MQ BCC MS contest is always a nice event... RW1AW Especially for the BCC MS contest I was building a 1:2 power divider to use the half of my EME array (2x19ele).Thanks again for a very interesting contest and congrats for the 10th jubilee of the contest! I plan to activate an interesting square for BCC 2000 ! DJ2QV Please adjust the begin and the end of the contest time to the predicted peak of the shower. This contest finished too early. LA0BY ...I called DL5MAE on the 14th, but got only qrz?. I realized, he was beaming to LZ, because of his following QSO. EU6MS ... Fb contest - many thanks ! DL1MAJ I´m happy that the big storm destroyed my antenna after this nice contest! What a pity, that the announced 1A0 operation could´nt take place.. What about this year ?? --- Obrada Slobodan Ilic nov.2002