7p8 Lesotho DXpedition 2000

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	Dieter, DJ9ON, and Markus, DL1IAN, before the departure at Frankfurt Airport
	Arrival at Johannesburg Airport, already expected by some Ham friends from South Africa to take us to Lesotho. That's Ham spirit!!
	First technical stop somewhere in the wilderness on our trip from J'burg to Lesotho
	Roma Lodge, where we stayed and where we spent a wonderful time
	The whole crew together in front of Roma Lodge upper row: Dieter, DJ9ON Mark, DL1IAN Tom I, DL4OCM Jo, DF6VI Tom II, DL1QW lower row: Hans, DL1YFF Sabrina, SWL
	Building up the pylon for Titanex LP-5
	All hands on deck! Only the anchors still to be tightened DL4OCM, DL1IAN, DF6VI, ZS6RVG
	Here we are mounting the 6-element-yagi for 6 meters
	DF6VI busy with Titanex V-160
	DF6VI's special construction to give the antenna a better support
	And now that thing is up!
	And here is the Titanex LP-5
	This is our R7000
	6-m-yagi and Force-12 in the background
	DL1QW at the FT-920 station for SSB
	DJ9ON at the FT-1000MP station for CW
	DF6VI at the SSB-station
	DL1IAN at the RTTY-Station together with our very good friend Dave, ZS6RVG
	DL4OCM smiling, he can work!
	No problem for DL1YFF to smoke his pipe. It's RTTY time.
	And last not least, our very jewel Sabrina, always cheerful!

And now we have a look around the area we were! In Lesotho there is wintertime, and we also had some snow.

	An impression of our QTH, the Roma Lodge
	Roundables on the Roma Trading Post compound
	Sabrina and DL1QW a bit higher on one the surrounding mountains
	Sheep, one of the resources of Lesotho
	The beautiful landscape in the mountains of Lesotho
	Footprints of dinosaurs just behind Roma Lodge on the next hill
	Children's toys: homemade kites
	View from the mountain behind Roma Lodge into Roma Valley
	Scenery in the mountains
	We met him in the mountains on our trip to Mohale Dam
	The gigantic construction site of Mohale Dam, which will become one of the biggest water reservoirs in Lesotho
	Here the worker's camp. Looks like a Norwegian village

After all that, one day the time is over and we went back.

	This was on the trip back from Roma to J'burg. They all were very tired, wern't they.
	Back at home, discusssion about the next DXpedition: Where do we go next?

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