Holiday operations of PA1W
More holiday and antenna pictures
2013 Soller (Mallorca):
 House with swimming pool |
 Environment of our holiday house (QSL card) |
 Tuning the J-pole 1/4 wave stub for 10m band. This band is used for contacts with Holland (1686km). But it turned out the 40m band would perform much better for contacts with the Netherlands. Next time I prepare a 40m 1/4 wave vertical for permanent use from here. |
2010 Aalten (NL):
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| During the WPX contest 29/30
may
2010. Picture is taken just before the rain started. And the
rain did
not stop. Notice the 10m high vertical. During the afternoon
at may 30
the 15m and 10m bands were wide open. Best antenna
performance is at
40/30/20 mtr. |
2006 South Afrika:
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 ZS1/PA1W at Calitzdorp. |
 Calitzdorp center of village. |
 View somewere from Swartberg. |
 Rhombick antenna in Calitzdorp. |
 Hazyview ZS6/PA1W. |
2005 Germany, Nueastenberg (near Winterberg):
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 IOTA contest setup during this holiday, as DL/PA1W. |
2004 PJ7/PA1W Sint Maarten Netherlands Antilles.
 QTH: Beacon Hill, seen from cockpit. |
 Seen from sea. |
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It was too
warm (35C and high moisture) to be active with ham
radio. My QTH was
Beacon Hill. a few miles from the capital city
Phillipsburg. Did not
use the /qrp suffix, made such a long call. 95% of QSOs
was 5 watt, 5%
was 10 watt, of course no differences in reports. |
Nevertheless
I
did
my
best, rig=K2, antenna, a fishing rod (4.5 meters). The
metal
roof, covering 9 apartments, did help a lot as a ground
plane. The
seawater on all sides gave a good ground reflection. FB
working with
QRP, causing pile-ups in Europe. I never had been on
this side of a
pile-up before. Made normal QSOs only, with exchanging
names and QTHs.
Call: PJ7/PA1W.
Holiday 2003, near Leuven Belgium (Huldenberg).
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 100% homemade station, all QRP. Nice view, cool beer, high temperature. |