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Fieldradio 2016

31 May 2016

After both having a long day at work, my XYL decided that she needed to run things off leaving me in-charge of dinner and also plenty of time to think what I would do that evening. The weather was a nice 23 C with a almost clear sky.  And after a look at some DX info pages, the best thing . . . Sporadic-E in Europe (big smile).  So after making dinner and eating it. I called Gerald PA3GEG if he had time to join in in this fieldtrip (unfortunately he had other things to do but would be QRV in a hour), packed my QRP setup and took off to the Distelbelt.

The Distelbelt is a small nature reserve in the east part of the Netherlands (JO32gn) and has a nice small artivisual hill which can be used by visiters as a lookout post to spot birds, enjoy the view etc. It's one of my favourite locations because of the low man made noise in that area and offcourse the view. My XYL and I even go there to look at the stars (low artificial light) with a telescope.

Setting up a glassfiber pole with the enfed as a vertical, I contacted Gerald PA3GEG for a sketch on 40m. Which sadly didn't work out because of the bad conditions, but then we switched to 6M and signals where coming in from all over europe. So after a short QSO and 73, we where going both our own way.

But like said best part of the Diselbelt is the absolute low man made noise (S0) (way much better then the S7 at home). And although the conditions wheren't that great, I took the time to listen to various QSO's and made a few my self.

The big supprice was that I could work a few stations on 6M with just the stock 6m/2m/70cm rubberduck antenna (the one is shiped with the FT817nd). So when there are conditions it works perfect.  Also made a few on 6M with on the 20m endfed (I just had to try it, the Z817 did his work).

After the Sporadic E started to disappear I switched over to 20m and even with 2.5W no problem making a few nice QSO's. 17m was booming to and tried to work Brazil (PY5QW 59+20) and the US, but couldn't break through the pileups.

But hey, it was just 1.5 hour in the field, but a days worth of fun :-)

Equipment : Yaesu FT817 QRP rig, LDG Z817 tuner, 20m DIY endfed (aditional monoband wires with me) and a 12.5m glassfiber pole.

Location :  Distelbelt(NL) JO32gn 

Yes it's a terrible location for a fieldtrip. ;-)

And then the sun is going down.

Time to pack things up and go home.

The log of this fieldtrip (like said, not many, but some nice QSO's).

Date	TimeOn	Call	Freq	Mode	RST_S	RSTR	Name	IOTA	LOC	Power
2016-05-31	19:43	LZ2016KM	14.252	SSB	59	59	Special		KN22DQ (1717 km)	2.5
2016-05-31	19:41	9A8DXG	14.26	SSB	59	59	Dxpedition	EU-090	JN82DJ (1344 km)	2.5
2016-05-31	19:37	YO8SJN/P	14.242	SSB	57	57	Robert		KN24XK (1683 km)	2.5
2016-05-31	19:29	IZ7DOK	14.242	SSB	59+10	57	Marco		JN90CH (1625 km)	2.5
2016-05-31	19:18	EA3AYQ	50.152	SSB	56	54	Joaquim		JN11MS (1228 km)	2.5
2016-05-31	19:15	EA3EVL	50.19	SSB	55	55	Pablo		JN00HR (1390 km)	2.5
2016-05-31	18:50	EA1CP	50.19	SSB	59	59	Jesus		IN73BM (1360 km)	2.5
2016-05-31	18:37	PA3GEG	50.197	SSB	57	52	Gerald		JO32HJ (19 km)	2.5

 

28 May 2016

On 28 May the FieldRadio FaceBook group organised there first international field radio event. Although bad weather was predicted that afternoon I took my bike and "power" fieldkit (FT897). Started out good, made a few non IFRE contacts and then the rain gods spoke loud. The place had absolute no shelter possibility so completly socked there was only one option : pack the bags and go home.

Ending for my contribution for the firtst international field radio event.

The setup : FT897D with 2 build in FNB-78 battery packs, LDG Tuner and 10/20/40m diy endfed antenna.

  

26 Feb 2016

After hearing my fieldreport from last May 2015, PD9H and I desided that we could take a extended lunch break this afternoon. We took a 12.5m glassfiber pole,  strapt to the railing to hold the 20m endfed and made a nice bunch of QSO's with variouse stations in Europe and enjoyed the view and weather.

The setup : FT817 with Z817 tuner on 20m diy endfed antenna. Extra 12V 7Ah battery as aditional powersource.

 

 

 

Portable radio logbook      Call :  PH2LB           Year :  2016          Page  1 of  1
Date	Time	Station called/worked	Band	Mode	Report		Name	Location / note
					In	out
26-feb	12:35	EA7GX	15M	SSB	57	58		Spanje 1549.0 km
26-feb	12:38	UR4MSF	17M	SSB	57	59	Alex	Ukraine 2368.4 km
26-feb	12:43	4X4FR	15M	SSB	-	52		Israel 3209.1 km  (No QSO)
26-feb	12:47	EW1MM	20M	SSB	59+10	59+10	Garry	Balarus 1397.8 km 14.173 - 100W
26-feb	12:51	EH5WAP	20M	SSB	59	59		Spanje 1583.8 km
26-feb	12:53	RA3RMG	20M	SSB	56	58		Russia 2260.8 km 14.219
26-feb	12:59	G4UOO	40M	SSB	56	58	John	England 478.6 km 7.120 FT2000 130W 45mil NW london, G5RV (foto's opsturen)

Thanks for the QSO's guys. Was fun working you with this setup.

 

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