F/ON6JUN/P DX-Expedition in NORMANDY 2000 |
Was activated succesfully on 2th, 3th and 4th of June 2000 by the UBA-sections NNV and GBN
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UBA section NNV has succesfully activated on
the 2th until 4th of June a special event
station to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the landing in
Ranville Normandy and so started the liberation of Europe (second
World War 1940-45).
Our special callsign during the expedition was F/ON6JUN/P what
means "France On the 6th of June at
Pegasus". We put our camp up near the famous bridge of
PEGASUS (grid locator IN99WC, Continent EU; CQ-zone 14; ITU 27)
Information or questions about this expedition can be obtained
from Hugo ON4AAA or at his phonenumber (032)054
/ 41 61 15
The radioclub of NINOVE -section
NNV of the UBA- will be back again with this special callsign
from our excellent QTH in RANVILLE/NORMANDIE (dep 14)! This year
we had the support of the radioclub of GERAARDSBERGEN -section
GBN of the UBA-, so active with more operators this year.
We activated the station from 2th of June (evening) until the 4th
of June (evening) with 9 operators and 4 stations. These are the
HAM bands where you'll heared us that weekend:
** Station 1 : 80 and 40 meter in CW and phone
** Station 2 : 160 and 20 meter in CW and phone
** Station 3 : 15 and 10 meter in CW and phone
** Station 4 : 6 and 2 meter in phone!
On 80 and 40 meter we participated in the CW fieldday as a
contest station during the time of the contest. Before and after
the contest we went active in phone on those bands.
The HAM-operators are: 
** ON4AAA, Hugo
** ON5BY, Freddy
** ON4AFU, Eddy
** ON6BV, Victor
** ON4CJV, Kurt
** ON6FC, Gaston
** ON4ABL, Erik
** ON6VH, Antoine
** ON4CLC (ex ON1DLM), Steven
The contactaddresses:
[email protected] .....
Hugo (ON4AAA)
[email protected]
..... Gaston (ON6FC)
ON4CLC Steven (only in packet: ON4CLC@ON0BWP)
73's from UBA section NNV (NINOVE-OOST VLAANDEREN-BELGIUM)
AND NOW THEY ARE ENJOYING A
ENTHUSIASTIC BREAK TO
COMPENSATE THEIR GREAT AND BRAVE EFFORT DURING THIS UNIQUE
EXPEDITION...
Photo's taken during the ON6JUN 2000 DXpedition
Photo's are delivered to me by Gaston ON6FC
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F/ON6JUN/P
Expeditie 2000 By Steven, de ON4CLC |
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(Foto: Brug
aan museum .JPG)
After 2 days of radio activity, we
took some time to visit the new museum
where saw a lot of souvenirs of World War 2. In the garden of the
museum is placed
the original PEGASUS bridge! On this photo You can see some
members of the crew standing before this famous bridge.
(Foto: Eten.JPG)
The whole crew has to eat! Our chef-cook
Victor, ON6BV, made us some strong food so we could continue the
special event station whole night. Big fun and eating in open ear,
under the antennas: the right combination for the crew to operate
F/ON6JUN/P !
(Foto: Het kamp.JPG)
A view of our camp with on the
foreground the antennas:
· 80 m : top loaded vertical homebrew
· 40 m : top loaded vertical homebrew
· 20 m : Groundplane vertical 1/4 lambda homebrew
· 15, 12, 10 m : multiband verical homebrew
· 6 m : 5 element Yagi homebrew
· 2 m : 11 element Yagi homebrew
We used 3 tents for the shacks:
· Shack 1 : 2 meter voice (FT 736 R Yeasu + amp 100 Watt)
· Shack 2 : 20 meter CW/voice (TS 120 Kenwood)
· Shack 3 : 80, 40 meter CW/voice and 15,12,10, 6 meter voice (TS
870 Kenwood + IC 746 ICOM)
The rest of the tents where used as kitchen and sleeping(room).
(Foto: Pancarte.JPG)
We had some visit of an authentic,
still living soldier who landed in Ranville on the 5th of june
1944 (the day BEFORE D-DAY). He told us his story like he
remembered it. He told us that lost his kit-bag during the
landing and that he was more woried about his bag with all the
equipment then of the German soldiers!
On this photo he ask to everyone of the area of Ranville: "Didn't
You found my kit-bag, please? I've lost it during the landing in
'44 and I'm still looking to find it someday, HI!"
This message is written on his mobil home!
BTW: Yvor is also a radio-amateur !!
(Foto: Paras1. JPG , Paras2.JPG , Paras3.JPG)
On saterday and Sunday in the
afternoon we saw a big show of paras just above our /P QTH! They
gave us an impression how the sky looked on the 6th of june 1944.
More than 300 paras jumped out of 6 aeroplains! They landed in
the field just near our field! We pauzeted our transmissions for
about 3 hours (Sunday PM) to be shure we didn't made
interferences on their radios. In mean time we had a great view
and a wonderfull experience!
The parachutes where authentic the same as they where used in WW
2. And one of the areoplains was a DC3 adapted for the army, and
they told us that this plain participated to D-Day also!
When the paras where landed, the crew of the DC 3 came back and
greeted us with the plain, while they fly over our station. I
think we were a perfect beacon for them!
(Foto: Engels
oudstrijder.JPG)
Our friend Yvor while he made a QSO
with F/ON6JUN/P on 2 meter with a porto. He was very proud of his
QSL card of the activation of 1999! "This card wil have a
special place in my shack at home", he told us. He
aprieciated our activation to remember D-Day a lot. CU next year,
Yvor!
This information has been send to me by Steven, de ON4CLC
Beste contacten tijdens
de Normandië expeditie 2000
2m
ON: ON1LPA in JO20XO .... 472 Km
2m
PA : PI4RCX/P in JO22IK ... 500 Km
2m
F : F5FNY in JN36BP ........ 557 Km
2m
G : G3KPU in IO93MN ...... 483 Km
2m
DL : DK5DQ in JO31PH ...... 585 Km ....
Complete 2-meter
log (by ON4CLC)
This information has been send to me by
Gaston, ON6FC
2m info corrected by ON4CLC
