As the last year and year before we organised our "Expedition" together with Pavel OK2RO and Marek OK6LZ. Pavel chose and rented the cottage close to town Kraliky. The name of the village was Dolni Hedec.
Expedice "Dolní Hedeč" |
Due to illness we had to postpone the expedition date from September to November. The weather was rainy as we expected, but due to date shift we got the opportunity to use speciall callsign OL90OK during our Expedition.
Štěpán OK1CSS jako OL90OK |
Pavel OK2RO jako OL90OK |
Marek OK6LZ jako OL90OK |
We made 500 QSO's under callsign OL90OK. It's not so much but is necessary to consider that our families were with us. We had to spend some time with them :-)
What more, there was hard rain on Saturday morning. The Hexbeam antenna was build on Saturday afternoon and we had to start packing our toys on Sunday around the lunch time because long journey home.
Actually there was not so much time for HAM radio..
Mikuláš jako OL90OK |
Compared to last year I have improved our antenna system. For 40m we used our proven full-size vertical with thirty radials. For higher bands we used the Hexbeam by Foldingantennas company. The Hexbeam is foldable into the small bag. We also had new telescopic mast from Wimo. There was small rotator AR-303 on the top.
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Pohled z okna na antény |
Thanks to new telescopic mast and thanks to the folding antenna we significantly reduced required time for antenna preparation. The erecting took about one hour including mast. The folding Hexbeam was "ready-to-use in about ten minutes. Good job manufacturer..
Expediční tým OK1CSS, OK2RO, OK6LZ |
Although the weather was not very comfortable we spent a nice weekend with HAM radio. There was good mood within the team, the cottage was nice and there was a fresh air in the countryside. Looking forward for the next DXpedition!