"BCA
OV-001 - Activation" Castle of Ooidonk
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Activation
2004, Nic ON4MGY & Jos ON5SD
"BCA OV-001 - activation" - "Castle of Ooidonk"
Working
conditions:
XMTR: Kenwood TS-50
Antenna: inverted V dipole for 40 m, apex on 12 meters in a tree
Preparation
before de activation
WX:
no rain, high humidity
Propagation conditions:
Very heavy QSB, poor short skip conditions
After 50 QSO's we increased the antenna with apex at 10 meter but
still we could make contacts with 'SP'-land !
We made a total of 70 QSO's in 3 hours.
In the future we will try another antenna set-up, known as the
'NVIS' set-up. This is lower feeded antenna set-up (max apex 6 m)
wich has a radius of max 300 miles/500 km.
All QSO's will be comfirmed with a special QSL-card.