12/16/2003 | DL0SHF We chose 13cm and 10 GHz for the contest this year. 23cm was not ready so far for transmitting. Weather was fair in both parts with no high winds that could have forced us to stop operation. We made a number of contacts on both bands but activity has been very "calm". This enabled me to take some time listening on 23cm also. What a difference. With the 9m dish the band sounded like the lower portion of the 40m band. Within one hour I copied more than 50 stations. It was the first time that we had no dropouts in the 6m dishes controls. Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest. For more info see http://www.df9cy.de/dl0shf

Christoph -- DF9CY