[30m] Operating on a CEPT certificate 30M

[Renaud, Russ]

I brought my SW30+ to London and operated as M/VA3RR from a 5th floor hotel room operating
after dark when no one could see me deploy my EFHW wire.  I did most of my operating between
March 1st and March 8th.

The band seemed to close around the dinner hour, but I managed to work a few Russian and Latvian
stations around that time.  The band was never 'open' enough to work anywhere west of europe.

I got up a few time in the middle of the night to see if there was anything to work, but I 
didn't hear any signals on the band, other than some loud RTTY and some other wideband 
signals I didn't recognize.

Although the SW30+ uses a simple superhet receiver with Gilbert cell mixers, I never experienced
any overloading.  

I wish I could have left my antenna hanging out the window during the day, but my room faced 
the street and I didn't want any complaints.  All said, I wouldn't hesitate to bring my 
portable station with me next time I have to travel for work.

http://www.qsl.net/va3rr/sw30/30metres.htm

73 de va3rr/aa8lu