The DK0NA team took part in the IARU VHF/UHF/SHF Contest in March 2025. The weather was very cold but tnx to Udo DH3NAG and Harald DH1NAI we managed to set up our extern rig for the 2m-band. Michael DB6NT and Matthias DK5NJ built a new antenna system for 144 MHz: 2x14ele yagi according to DG7YBN design. You can see the pictures of our legendary antenna transport by car. Some might say it’s brave 😉 The new antennas worked very well and we are highly satisfied, tnx and 73s to http://dg7ybn.de/.
During the contest we had to fight with several challenges: gas filter problems of the big energy generator (changed with running engine :-), local QRM on 432 MHz by other stations around us, LAN network problems but at the end every problem was solved. Despite the bad wx conditions we were able to make QSOs on all the bands from 144 MHz up to 122, 134, 245 GHz and laser on Sunday. So we were active on 14 amateur radio bands! Additional operators are always wanted and therefore we were lucky to get our friend Frank DL1WA for the Saturday shift. It was a lot of fun and we are looking forward to the results! Thanks to all our QSO partners! Find the results at DARC contest hub.

See some impressions from the hill: