This afternoon I had some 2 hours of time available to activate one of the most wanted PAFFs. I had already selected a nice location for the /P operation at Dwingelderveld. However it turned out that one of the roads through the nature park was closed off. That made it impossible to reach my desired location.
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Dwingelderveld WFF PAFF-013 |
Luckily I had also preselected a few other spots at another part of the park. The downside of these spots is that they are located in the woods.
So after a delay I was again facing a challenge to set up the antenna (especially the extended mast of 15m for the 40m wire antenna) without getting stuck in the trees.
I forgot to bring the 15m band wire and 10m was almost dead (a couple of weak signals), so I started on 17m. There was some activity on this band but not many OMs found their way to my station. After 4 contacts and a lot of calling I decided to go down to 20m. I changed the antenna to my multi 10-20-40m wire to enable to go down to 40m later without the need to change the antenna again.
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Antenna in between the trees at PAFF-013 |
So in 90 minutes of radio time I worked 109 stations from 28 DXCCs. Maximum QRB was set by an OM from RV9 to 5000km. Luciano I5FLN and Albert S58AL came by on two bands.
This time 30% of all stations logged were new callsigns to me.
Thanks all for calling in.
Lars, PH0NO/P
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