...16 litre beer, 1 litre vodka, 2 broken linear, one broken van window, one broken hand and littlebit qsos, how we made that? History : Already during BCC 2005 in KO67, during time when we listerned S 3-5 QRM I start to plan with Alex next expedition, somewhere quiet place. There we looked MWS 2004 map and yep, KP61 will be fb place, just over 100 km open sea to main operating way. Also had interest to take 70cm with, and try 2 signal in 2 meter one time. 31th Dec 2004 Because normally all final fixing need to do last evening before driving, now I was really early. In Russian roads are not too great for extra stuff in car (also not for car...) so my 18 el for 2m was 16 el and 43el for 70cm was 42 element. New year evening was great time to fix those. Exatly my XYL made that, because 1st Jan I had 16 hour QRL period... So, that is real love, but I don't recommend test that in your home :) 1st Jan 2005 Back home from QRL 20z and all mechanical stuff to van and 4 hour zzz 2nd Jan 0230z on the road. 150 km to Värtsilä border cross KP52, just 30min for OH and UA borders but next 190 km Russian roads needs 5 hour, so you can image quality during winter time... In KP61ee last 40 meters snow was not cleaned, so one sport hour was ok after several driving hours. QTH was abt 100 meter from lake Ladoka, but 9 meter higher, just few pines there but another way ok. When Ludmila (72 years young lady), whom we rented one room for 2 night saw all antennas, she already told that great, here is very difficult look TV. After that was best part of expedition. Alex RU1AS told, that please tell all neighbours that better read books than look TV, and she MADE IT! That's really FB for radio amateur hobby!!! Local news told that in lake Ladoga is 20 m/s wind, that was easy to beleive when we made at least 2m yagi 8 m up. Up here winter day is not too long, so it went dark when we start to make 70cm 43el. But something good, when we put antenna up it went to 380v line, really good when that was not open line.... Ok, antennas made, so to our room. Setup there but what a shit, SWR in 2 meter was totally high... oh no, broken coax. Indeed we had not idea how we take antenna down, change coax (unfortunately very long one, and adapters both side etc) and made antenna back on the air. During that time several aurora infos went to GSM. So that aurora we missed totally. And GSM coverage was very poor there, only some place in garden gsm worked. So normally I didn't answer SMS, because they was already 2-8 hours old ones. So it was already time for tropo. 70cm we made without problem 2 qsos. Just one small problem we had. Of course home it's not nesessary to test systems, better see far away that coax to antenna is N type but to Russian relays it don't goes wery easily. But no problem, I had also transistor heater Tokyo HL-130 U, and we make signal enough for both stations what we also RXed during tropo session. 2m with new coax was quite quiet 1st evening. Just power supply of GS-35b didn't liked too much unstabile volts (maybe around 180-250v Russian countryside) and main smoke went out of power supply. As we all know, all radios etc work with smoke, when smoke goes out, those don't work anymore... So it was time to change GU-74b, but.... Tuning was broken. Main reason was maybe those roads, even it was is soft bed in my car... Time to sleep... 3rd Jan So what we still have, one transistor heater Lunar 10-150. From my van battery inside, charger also we had. We are here for Quadrantids so it's not time to cry! Hmmm, totally output was 50w, but littlebit optimist I write 100w to few sms that even somebody try to answer us ;) And 50w was down, so what was up in antenna, will not even think that... But we was already middle of nowhere so it was only way to enjoy beer and look, if we can even hear something ;) During that day nothing special, only littlebit logbook and more beer. 4th Jan Setdown morning, 10z we start cars and plan to drive back home. Alex after start engine went out for clean snow of windows, close door and we hear CLOK, central closing system worked, but why? We are not criminals, so after 40 min trying to go car, Alex just broke 2 finger it was time to broke one window. So again time to try drive home. With Alex end trip went without problem, but I drived just 30-40 km when 1st truck was middle of the road and off road... One hour help period and that was back on the road. Next small stop was Russian custom. As we know, Russian Xmas & new year period is 1-7th January, so custom was not too quickly. 3 hour in line, great that just 1930 went to OH custom, because Värtsilä is open 06-20z. Last 150km to home without problems! But 12 hour for 350km, here it is "normal"... 5th Jan I saw one cockroach when take notebook from suitcase!!! Great end for this expedition... 73 de Janne OH5LID & Alex RU1AS 70cm TROPO : 2nd Jan 2005 1 RX1AX 549 1945 KO59FX 171 2 OH5IY 449 2007 KP30HV 312 2m TROPO : 2nd Jan 2005 1 RX1AX 59 1940 KO59FX 171 2 RX1AS 59 1949 KO59FX 171 NC ES6RQ 1955 KO28WA 509 2m FSK441 : 3rd Jan 2005 NC DL8EBW 0737- JO31NF 1900 NC PA0JMV 1145-1237 JO21PM 1968 NC DJ8ES 1250- JO43SX 1572 1 OZ1LPR 1406-1410 JO44WX 1486 2 PA2CHR 1410-1429 JO22XA 1897 3 OZ2M 1430-1440 JO65FR 1305 4 OZ5AGJ 1440-1455 JO56DF 1385 5 DJ7OF 1456-1500 JO51HQ 1695 6 ES6RQ 1500-1515 KO28WA 509 7 DJ8ES 1515-1527 JO43SX 1572 NC DL9MS 1527-1544 JO54WC 1447 8 PA5DD 1544-1548 JO22FE 1960 9 DL9MS 1552-1610 JO54WC 1447 10 OZ1PIF 1610-1630 JO65AN 1337 11 PA0V 1630-1643 JO33II 1761 12 OZ6ABA 1643-1652 JO57DJ 1320 13 DK1KO 1631-1701 JO53CT 1551 14 OZ1IEP 1705-1734 JO55XU 1322 NC DL4DWA 1734- JO61QH 1600 15 LA4XGA 1800-1827 JP33VC 1291 16 OE3FVU 1855-1925 JN78UE 1791 NC DL8EBW 1926- JO31NF 1900 17 SM5DIC 1946-2011 JO89JT 868 NC DH3YAK 2016- JO31RS 1841 18 SP2IQW 2117-2132 JO94GM 1103 19 DL1SUN 2132-2151 JO53QN 1516 20 OZ1LO 2152-2158 JO55VC 1380 21 DL2ARD 2221-2236 JO60AR 1710 NC DK3BU 2245- JO33NO 1722
Mission freezer is done! Yep, that was quite interesting expedition to try winter time portable operating. I drived with Alex RU1AS saturday 3rd Jan to KO69 without idea where we will be. Area in that part of sqr is flat, so not any hill for us but big field we found and just stopped car middle of nothing. Wx was sunny and a bit windy, around -19c hole day & night, just sunday morning was bit overcost and warm up to -13c when we made set down. Boot of my van is not isolated so panel of van was good cooler. We made hard decision, because we taked bottlet gas heater we didn't take any beer with us, so booze operators don't burn hole setup and themselves. But that heater was too hot and so much stuff inside so we could't use it. So last way was take wall away between cab and boot and engine idled there nonstop. Heater is enought for cab but not for hole car, so that was better be without beer when several - degrees were hole time inside so less alcohol liquid will be frozened... Problems... 1st Just after 1 hour driving my GU-74b start to act up. Output drop down around 100w and terrible noise all time when used, so some bad connections or what, that we try to hunt but didn't found way to fix. Just in case we had also 150w transistor linear and so we change -6db. 2nd After fixing period moon was already shining, so I looked from JT44 right QTF, that was our compass. BUT I DIDN'T RECODNICE THAT PC CLOCK WAS IN RUSSIAN TIME..... So 18.28-1929utc we beam just 50 degree too much east. I shame.... 3rd I was really wondering where is ham spirit. It shows that what higher place is in Bubus toplist that lower is moral standard. When we had qso going on, more than once, twice... on that expedition I rx few well known dx'ers who wanted to work with us. If every rx period we had few strong burst, I can't really beleive that those operators can't hear that we didn't work with him. Maxim QRM time was even 25 min. If after CQ I start with someone, I tryed to complete qso also. We lost much time after start qso and wait qso partners burst when totally 5 DIFFERENT BIG EME GUN enjoyed to show how QRM powerful they are. If they was too late to answer they just didn't want to stop transmitting that we can complete qso that we run, so there was really meny nonsense burst for us what also destroyed same time smaller burst. Really don't know how meny qso less we made in that limited time expedition due those egoists, but few that's sure. In WJST progam have also monitor possibility. So everyone will thing is it possible to use that if after CQ u start to answer but u hear that who gived CQ answer to some other. Just QRX and wait next CQ. Less QRM. U are not onlyone who want to work new sqr! Oops, that's enought mumble, let's look our log what is made with IC-706, Lunar 10-150 and 18el DL2WU. 3rd Jan 2004 1 1355 DJ9MG JO52TC 1655 2 1408 DK1KO JO53CT 1482 NC DJ9YE JO43HV 1564 NC PA0BAT JO32JF 1770 3 1828 SP6GWB JO80HK 1406 NC HA5OV JN97NJ 1587 4 2204 SP3VSC JO92DF 1179 5 1932 DL4DWA JO61QH 1489 6 1944 DL9MS JO54WC 1372 7 1955 DL7FF JO62TJ 1394 8 2001 DL8EBW JO31NF 1821 9 2014 DL1RNW JO62GH 1457 10 2037 PA0JMV JO21PM 1900 11 2038 OZ1IEP JO55XU 1271 12 2102 DF7KF JO30GU 1879 13 2122 DJ9YE JO43HV 1564 NC DL5WG JO52VK 1487 14 2144 DJ3LE JO44TN 1470 15 2147 OZ2M JO65CO 1269 16 2151 DL8BDU JO43AA 1650 17 2202 DG2BCP JO43DC 1631 18 2213 LA5KO ??? NC SM0EJY JO89SC 841 19 2249 LA0BY JO59FW 1227 20 2304 OZ1LPR JO44UW 1444 21 2319 SM7FMX JO65KN 1234 22 2347 OK1KT JO70WE 1461 NC PA3BIY JO22EB 1915 4th Jan 2004 23 0028 DG6JF/P JO33QN 1654 NC HA5CBA JN97OM 1572 24 0101 OK2MWR JN99HQ 1388 NC DF2ZC JO30RN 1851 25 0245 OK2PM JN99AO 1419 26 0303 SM5CUI JO89VX 819 27 0324 RX1AS KO59FX 125 Tropo 28 0329 OK1YA JN79IO 1565 29 0449 RA3IS KO76WT 353 30 0455 DL9AN JO62RE 1418 31 0610 DH7FB JO62SM 1390 NC SP2IQW JO94GM 992 That's it! Where we do go next? Next good shower is Areitids, so we may go somewhere, but where. Pse update ur missing sqr infot DL8EBW MWS 2004 list. And with missing OH sqr's use pse http://www.saunalahti.fi/~oh5lid/cgi-bin/grids 73 de Janne OH5LID
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