September 2 Meter Contest

After a long time, I took part in a 2-meter contest again. It all started on 144 Mhz over 50 years ago with my amateur radio hobby.

I’ve been having problems with my 2-meter horizontal antenna lately, but it’s working again now.
Here is an overview of the QSO:

I made 40 QSOs and scored 7941 points. That’s an average of 199 km per QSO. The ODX was G8T with 557 kilometers covered.

Here, as always, is the QSO map:

As always, the interesting thing is the gap in the distribution towards the northeast. I always have that, but I can’t make sense of it. There must be something in the way.

The map was created with https://qsomap.cqgma.org/ADIF_to_Karte.php and the text was translated with Deepl.