Hi everyone,
with the 20m LP coming back to life, I wonder whether people would be interested in a joint S2S event between the Pacific area and EU. Usually, the weeks around equinox offer good condx into the Pacific area.
Daylight saving is in place in VK from October 4th which makes it easier to stay on a summit for longer. The only more or less “contest free” time slot on a weekend is on Saturday, 17th October (the “Worked All Germany” contest starts at 15:00 z).
The 20m LP usually opens around 6:30 z. Sunrise in central EU will be around 05:45 z (first daylight about an hour earlier), last daylight in VK1 is 8:30 z, which should give activators enough time to avoid hiking in complete darkness.
So, may I suggest Saturday, 17th October, 06:30 UTC (roughly) as a date for the experiment?
I’d be curious to hear who is interested in it and what equipment they’d bring along.
On the spur of the moment… and since I bought a 14m Spiderbeam fiberglass mast in Friedrichshafen… and I’d been wanting to build a 20m Oblong anyway…
Well, I think I’m all set with the KX2, the small 35 W PA (MX-P50M), an HB9EAJ End-Fed ( 10m - 60m - without 12m) and the Oblong for my local summit, DM/BW-018.
This sounds interesting as I have finally tried my Chinese 5.4m telescopic antenna and it works! I should be trying it out again today with more radials (8x 2.5m).
Equipment expected to be:
Chinese 5.4m Telescopic antenna with 8x 2.5m radials effectively ground mounted.
Either KX2 + PA + re-engineered ATU-100 (if needed) or IC-705 + PA + ATU-100, say about 30-40W
FT857, 12Ah LifePO4, 20m 1/4 wave vertical with elevated radials 1.4m above ground, antenna switch, and separately an inverted V dipole broadside orientation for LP, mounted on a 9m telescopic pole.
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