Archive for April, 2009

Visiting VU2PAI in Mangalore

Published by thomas April 30th, 2009 in DXing. 0 Comments

In December 2008 I had the great pleasure to spend a few days with Pai VU2PAI in Mangalore. We managed to do a bit of sightseeing, try some of the delicious local sea food, and most importantly working some good pile ups.

Thanks to Pai and the other local hams of Mangalore for the great hospitality.

 


OZ1AA and the new Steppir antenna at VU2PAI

 


Great Indian dinner with the DX and Contest group in Mangalore

 


Working the pile up on 40 CW

 

CQWW CW 2008 at YM3A

Published by thomas April 30th, 2009 in Contesting. 0 Comments

As I ended up in Istanbul during the last weekend of November I was happy to be invited to be a part of the YM3A team who was setting up for a M/2 operation near the city of Bandirma. The team consisted of LZ1NK, LZ1CNN, LZ1WX, LZ1UK, LZ2UW, TA2TX, DF4SA and myself. During the contest we had a total of 8 hours of power outages. A leason was learned to bring a generator for the next operation in Turkey. We finished with 7000 QSOs and 11.5 million points.

Thanks to the Spiderbeam Team for a great time in the Turkish country side!

 

Antenna work before the contest. Background sound of the islamic call to prayer from the local mosque!


One of the three operating positions

 


Overview of the antennas

 


DF4SA and LZ1CNN installing the big Spiderbeam including 40 m

 


OZ1AA officially becomes a member of the Team Spiderbeam