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[Bill]

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      News 16.10.2014

Written by DL1MGB, October 17th 2014, 00:53

Sorry for being inactive on the news site. The last days we were very 
busy in erecting all the stations and antennas. But now we have a setup 
which produces good signals around the world and also allows us to work 
on some bands parallel in two modes. Especially having two stations on 
one band is not an easy task on a "limited" property of 5 acres.

At the moment our setup consists of 9 stations (yes, we already lost one 
transceiver; investigations are ongoing). Each station is equipped with 
a Elecraft K3, amplifier, notebook, microHAM MK2 interface and a lot 
more accessories. The antenna field consists of 16 antennas: Titanex 
vertical V160E for 160m, a fullsize 4-square for 80m, a 4-square and a 
VDA on 40m and 30m, 2 3ele yagis on 20m and a yagi and a VDA for the 
bands from 17m to 10m. Also the first beverage to Europe is up for low 
band operations.

On 160m we still have a RX problem. Of course the conditions are not the 
best for the low bands these days, but with a S7 noise level it makes it 
even harder to copy those weak signals. We try to locate the source to 
make a serious low band operation.

Yesterday morning we had a heavy rain fall. 20 cm of rain came down 
within one hour. We even had a water ingress in one of our shacks, but 
were able to fight against it with towels and buckets. The main thing: 
The antennas did survive the storm.

Regarding 6m we try to put up the antenna the next days. No special 
plans for this.

Onlinelog will be uploaded twice per day as internet connections 
permits. So far there are over 33,000 QSOs in the log.

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