Which are "microwave contests" ????

Immagine del Monte Cesen Microwave contests are competitions which the target is to do as many as possible vocal/tv connections with other amateur radio peoples.
A classifications is made by computing the score adding the distance (in kilometres) of each connection (QSO). For Example, if i make 50 QSO with an average distance of 250Km, my score is 250*50=12500 points
The contests are organized by hamradio associations, for a specific day or week-end, for a length of 6 to 24 hours.
Due to the score calculation method, the winner is the hamradio people located in the best location (in the highest and most open mountain) with the best devices (most powerful transmitter, most sensible receivers and most wide antennas).

Usually I take part to 6-8 contests per year, from my portable hamradio stations working in the open-air from the top of a mountain near my home, like "Cesen Mountain" in the figure at the right.

My microwave portable station

My microwave contest stations is made by

85cm offset parabole with two horn illuminators ( 5.7 and 10 GHz band)
2x8 dipole array antenna, by I3KUH, for the 2.3 GHz band
26 elements Yagi antenna, by I3KUH, for the 1.2 GHz band
Zero-IF (no-tune!!) SSB Radios, developed by S53MV, for the 1.2, 2.3, 5.7, 10 GHz bands
Radios Control box , that permit to use the four radios by two operators simultaneously, with the vocal automatic calling using a DAST
2-litre bottle of Prosecco wine, produced at my village Col San Martino : refreshing in the summer, warming up in the winter! (staying in the open-air for eight hours a day in the winter, on the top of a mountain, is NOT possible without alcool!)

Our contest results

Our contest results with entire logs are reported below.

Date	Contest Name	23cm	13cm	6cm	3cm
15/08/98	Field Day Ferragosto	---	4:ULTIMI	---	---
04/10/98	IARU:Trofei ARI	11:10th	7:6th	---	---
18/10/98	Contest Veneto	10:3rd	2:3rd	---	---
07/02/99	Contest Romagna	22:1st!	4:1st!	4:1st!	2:5st
20/03/99	Contest delle Sezioni	8:4th	5:4th	1:4th	1:4th
11/04/99	Contest Lario	10:3rd	3:3rd	2	0
02/05/99	IARU:Contest Emilia	22:4th	10:2nd	7:6th	6:8th
04/07/99	IARU:Citta' di Treviso	11:11th	8:6th	3:10th	8:13th
15/08/99	FieldDay Ferragosto	20:1st!	11:1st!	6:6th	9:6th
17/10/99	Contest Veneto	17:1st!	6:1st!	3:4th	3:4th
05/03/00	Contest IARU	26	12	3rd!	6
16/06/02	Contest Veneto Contest Alpe-Adria	25	8	5	5
12/06/05	Contest Veneto	1	0	0	0
2-3/07/05	IARU: Contest Città di Treviso	7	0	0	0

Images from several contests

Illustrated photos from the IARU contest at March 5th, 2000: our portable station located at Monte Cesen, at 1200 metres over the sea layer.
Here are some received QSL.

Mar 16, 2010 - 01:19:58 - http://www.ir3ip.net/iw3grx/contest/
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