Evening activation of Everdingerwaard PAFF-0261

Purpose of this activation was to test a loaded 40 meter vertical of 7 meters long with 2 radials on a 10 meter Spiderbeam pole. I also brought a 5-band trusdx transceiver, being curious how it would behave on a band with strong signals.

PAFF-0261 at the river Lek

I was QRV around 18 UTC for 45 minutes and called CQ all of the time with about 5 Watts output. The results: 23 contacts with OM1AX being the best DX at 1050 km. One 2-way QRP QSO with HB9DAX and a park2park QSO with SP2BMX. Experiment successful!

 

Early morning activation of a new park: PAFF-0261

Only a 20 minute bicycle ride from my house to Everdingerwaard, PAFF-0261. This park has been added to the WWFF list over the weekend. Another nice spot along the river Lek and many stations trying to work me... It took around 30 minutes to get the required 44 QSO's.

Got 55 QSO's eventually before packing up. Good propagation to the east with R0WA (Krasnoyarsk) and RN9J in the log. One P2P contact with F6EOC in FFF-0300.

 A good spot to go back to! 73 and 44 de Jo PG4I