and YL2KL / Girts with
company in
2003 WPX SSB Contest as C5P or gap in history again….
Due problems with one of transceivers in last
minute was changed
operation in SSB WPX Contest. Team now have
only Icom-775DSP and
spare Icom-706MK. In contest was operated as
Multi/Single category, from
s/p place with IC-706 made only abt 200 QSOs.
Total 6500 QSOs
with abt 25,5 M points.
After contest main activity in SSB and CW,
please wait for RTTY
at end of week and in EA RTTY Contest.
28.03.2002.
Some problems with electricity in hotel.
Planing to take part as Multi/Two in SSB WPX
and Multi/Single in EA RTTY.
Rz4HF and RZ4HTX still in Moscow, problems
with Visas. Probably not coming.
QSL cards for C5P call to YL2KL :
Girts Budis,
P.O. Box 19,
Ainazi, LV-4035,
Latvia.
(direct with SASE or Bureau)
All other to homecall’s.
The international group of Radio Amateurs
will go to The GAMBIA for
2 weeks: from 25th of MARCH until 7th of
APRIL 2003 and will use following
call signs:
YL2KL - C53KL / Girts
YL3CW - C53CW / Valerijs
YL1ZF - C53ZF / Kaspars
LY2TA - C56TA / Andrius
RZ4HF - C56HF / Igor
RZ4HTX - C56HTX / Alex
Will be active CW/SSB/RTTY all HF bands,
during WPX SSB and EA RTTY will use
C5P call sign (QSL via YL2KL).
Setup:
160m
Inv.
V.
L-vertical
80 m
Inv.
V.
L-vertical
40
m
2 el. Vertical
array
GP
20-10
m
A3S
tribander
SteppIR 3 el
RX/TX
IC-775DSP
FT-1000D
PA
ACOM2000A
ACOM2000A
Previous trip homepage: http://www.qsl.net/kudxc/c53m/
Latvia and Gambia, what is common here?
Yes, it is.
The Gambia National Tourist Office on his
webpage
http://www.gambiatourism.info/sightseeing.asp
say that
- James Island Fort
Constructed by the Germans in 1651, it was
captured by the British 10 years later.
The
ruins stand on a tiny island in the centre of the river. Fort James is a
colourful
reminder of the centuries of struggle to
dominated the shave and other trades of the region.
Yes, it was German by nationality, but only
peoples in Latvia know that this German was
the Duke James of Courland. Today the
previous Courland territory is part of Latvia.
Duke James was born 1610 in Kuldiga, Dukedom
of Courland. Duke James was clever and
far-seeing governor and buy this island from
Gambia head Kumbo in year 1651.
So, it was in that time, today is today.
See You in pile-up’s , 73!
Text by YL2KF/Vilnis
10/02/04
P.S. TNX for pics to N0DY/Jeff.
