I was bored last Friday (18-Jun-21), so I decided short hand to backpack my equipment and to cycle to a nearby nature reserve.
Equipment used: FT-891, Wire Dipole (mounted in 45° angle directing to S-W), 40AH car battery.
Continue reading “13AT031/p DLFF-0275 Flutgrabenaue Waltersdorf”This was a short excursion today :-(.
I went on air at about 11:30 UTC. First 10 minutes were quiet. I managed to get 15 stations in the log until at about 12:15 UTC park officers came along and asked me to remove the dipole, which I had mounted solely with light sailing cords between 2 trees in approximately 2.50m height. I tried to make them change opinion, but the insisted on removing it, telling me a small antenna on the ground would be ok, but my dipole would be way far to big!?! I am pretty sure some other park visitor must have complained about it, since last time I haven’t seen any park officer at all and lots of people passed by. However I logged 2 more stations – 18MU128 and 14DX019, since both of them already tried to catch me the other day and ended this days activity very disappointed.
This beautiful day has an end. Logs been digitalised, video proof has been compiled and QSLs been designed.
82 unique QSOs were established into 13 different divisions within 4 hours 50 minutes (10:30 – 15:20 UTC). The battery (34Ah) did an excellent job. I could have been on air a little longer, however propagation dropped and the park closes at 16:00 UTC, although the latter seems flexible.
On days like these, when You have time for the radio, but the radio is just like zzz, it is a good time to go through the old cards, remembering the “better” times.
Today I took fotos of (probably not all) my IOTA QSL cards. There are QSLs missing, since they are in my DXCCs collector album. I will put them online soon.
Oh what a surprise: I just found dozens of short audio snippets which I recorded in 2000 – 2003 or so. What a pleasure to listen to activations like 240AT/0, 252AT/0, 284AT/0, 338AT/0 or stations like Tono (RIP dear friend) airing as 145/30AT014, Rino TXing as 100AT/AS081.
I’m proud to present to You: 11m audio snippets!
Some of them are barely hard to listen to or just a few seconds short. I remember that I later used some kind of DSP software on my computer to get the most out of it.
Anyway – just enjoy & remember the good old times 😉
Vy 73s de
Martin #031
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