LX8A CQWW DX Contest 1988

LX8A
CQWW DX Contest CW 1988 M/M

This was a tremendous Multi/ Multi activity of the BCC.

QSL Information for this activity is DL7MAE

This is the LX8A QSL card:

This was really an activity covering high effort in material and personnel.
Martin DL4NAC was the organizer and he did a real great job. Thank you Martin.

Go through the following pictures to discover LX8A:

Preparing the Multi/Multi Station Setup

This is the truck we used to transport the material to LX. It was also helpful to erect the towers.
	Ben DL6RAI inspects the 6x6 10m array
Bernhard DF7RX working on the tower for the 6x6 10m array.
	Preparations in the shack. The shack was a big room and the stations were positioned in an "U" form.
As soon as a station was ready we always find an operator to start operating. Outside the contest the individuals used call signs like LX/call.
	A view to the antenna farm of the main QTH. from left to right: 6x6 ele 10m Yagi 4 ele 20m Yagi 2 ele 40m Yagi 3 ele 15m Yagi
Another view to the antenna farm of the main QTH. from left to right: 6x6ele 10m Yagi 2 ele 40m Yagi 3 ele 15m Yagi 4 ele 20m Yagi
	This is a view to the second QTH. This QTH was used for multiplier searching. The distance between these two QTH was about 20 km. The connection to the main QTH was made by using voice links on 2m and 70 cm
View from the main entrance of the main QTH with the antennas around the buildings.
	This is the pyramidal antenna for 160m. The tower is almost 30m high. We pulled it up with the truck.
3 ele 15m Yagi at the main QTH.
	2 ele 40m Yagi at the main QTH.
4 ele 20m Yagi at the main QTH.
	Preparing the radios. Mike DL1HCM, Win DK9IP and Ben DL6FBL (soldering).
Another crew working with the radios.
	Is the shack is ready to go?

The antenna field at the main QTH:
approx. 30m high tower with pyramidal antenna for 160m
full size vertical and dipole for 80m
2 ele Yagi @ 18m and dipole for 40m
4 ele YAGI @ 18m and 3 ele Yagi @ 18m for 20m
5 ele YAGI @ 18m and 3 ele Yagi @ 18m for 15m
6 ele over 6 ele Yagi @18m / 12m and 3 ele Yagi @ 12m for 10m

The antenna field at the second QTH:
Butternut vertical for 160m
vertical and dipole for 80m
vertical and dipole for 40m
3 ele Yagi for 20m
3 ele Yagi for 15m
3 ele Yagi for 10m

The communication between the two QTHs was established by UHF and VHF voice links.
In addition there was one packet radio link between the two QTHs.

Operating
Since we were enough OPs in the team there was always somebody who made some photos
from the operating during the contest weekend. Many of the photos are taken by Win DK9IP.

Operator meeting: Martin DL4NAC is instructing the operators: "We are going to operate in a contest. The name of the contest is ..."
	Operator meeting and discussions ...
... and discussions. This was really great team.
	View into the multi/multi shack. The "U" form has advantages because each station can view to the other stations. The computer in the front was the only logging PC we had at LX8A. The band stations made their logging on paper. Than the logs were typed into the computer by hand.
Bernd DF3CB and Wolfgang DL5MAE operating the 80m station.
	Mike DL1HCM and Dieter DF4RD at the second QTH searching multipliers.
left: 20m station Win DK9IP and Mike DL1HCM center: 40m station right: 80m station Bernd DF3CB and Wolfgang.
	View to the 20m station with Win DK9IP and Mike DL1HCM The station in the background is the 15m station.
Mike DL1HCM and Ben DL6FBL at the 20 m station
	Alex DK8FD and Bernd DL1VJ (now VK2IA) at the 15 m station The last zone was just worked.

After the Contest

The contest is over.
	The LX8A equipment tower
The LX8A equipment tower with the operators.

Operators:
DF3CB, DF3NA, DF4RD, DF7RX, DJ0IP, DJ1US, DJ2BW, DJ2EH, DJ3TF, DK7PE, DK8FD, DK9IP, DL1HCM,
DL1MAJ, DL1VJ, DL2NBU, DL3NCI, DL4NAC, DL5MAE, DL6FBL, DL6RAI, DL7MAT, DL8NBJ, DL8OH, DL9RDL,
LA4DCA, LX1JP, LX1MK, LX1RQ, LX1WS, LX1WW

Finally 11515 QSOs with 203 zones and 691 countries are made.
The final score is 18,681,918 points.

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