PACC-Contest

PACC Contest with PI4SHB

During the last few years, i have participated in the annual Dutch PACC contest with our clubstation PI4SHB. Just for the weekend we build up a complete HF contest station at the terrain of a bicycle club in Nieuwcuyck. We enter the contest as a multi-single station, and we do CW only. As you can see on the photos below, the antennas consist of 2 and 3 element yagis for 10-40 meters, 1/2 wave verticals for 40 and 80 meters, and a halve wave dipole for 160 meters.
We usually end up in the top-three of our section, despite the fact that our "opponents" do CW and SSB. (but of course that is a restriction that we put on ourselves......)

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Our shack in the snow. On the right the 40m vertical. On the left the crane with the two yagis. What you don't see on the photo are the hundreds of meters of radials that we roll out under every vertical. This is no fun in the snow with temperatures below zero !!

Same picture with a piece of the 80m vertical.

A close-up of the beams. The top one is a 3 elements for 10,15,20 and the bottom one is a 2 elements for 40m.

Yours truly enjoying the contest with Sjoerd PA0SHY watching.You don't have a station like this at your fingertips every day !!

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