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Our group of Radioamateurs organises a special event station to commemorate the anniversary of the landing in Ranville Normandy! This World War 2 event started the liberation of Europe (D-Day second World War 1940-45).
Our special call is F/ON6JUN/P what means "France On the 6th of June at Pegasus".

F/ON6JUN/P EXPEDITION, RANVILLE 2003

40m vertical - shack - WARC dipole - FB4 dipole.jpg	40m vertical.jpg	6-10-12-15m station(1).jpg	6-10-12-15m station(2).jpg
HF CW station.jpg	HF voice station(1).jpg	HF voice station(2).jpg	kitchen and 15-20m dipole.jpg
Valerie (wife of the maire) - Georgette - Michel - Eddy.jpg	WARC dipole - FB4.jpg	6m beam and A-99 10-12-15m vertical.jpg	The kitchen and 20-15 dipole.jpg

F/ON6JUN/P 2003 --- Report --- de ON4CLC

Day 1: Wednesday 4/6/2003:

• After days of preparing the equipement a part of the crew, Kurt-Marnix-Geert-Willy-Eddy-Steven, started the trip to
  Normandie at 03:15 UTC. Ready for 460 Km of road to activate the special Event Station F/ON6JUN/P.
  
  This year we decided to take only the highways so we could make the trip shorter in time ! At 08 :45 UTC we arrived
  in Ranville !
  
  After some ‘official’ welcome-words to the people of the Memorial Pegasus museum, we started to set-up the camp.
  At 10:30 UTC Jos arrived also in Ranville.
  
  15:00 UTC, and we were invited to the opening-drink for the festivities 2003 to commemorate the 59th anniverserie of
  D-Day.
  
  At 17:00 UTC we made the first radio-checks ! Everything was OK, now we hoped for some good propagation-conditions !
  
  In the evening we also organised a little drink for the start of the activation of F/ON6JUN/P 2003.
  
  

Day 2: Thursday 5/6/2003:

• Up at 5:00 UTC, first contacts made on 20m and 40m in voice ; 30m in CW ; 6m open to ‘EH’, beacon is 57, no stations
  QRV ! ! Poor conditions on HF.
  
  PM : Still poor conditions on HF, contacts on 20 and 40m phone, CW on WARC-bands, 15m open for 1 hour. Some short
  openings on 6 in the direction of EH, CT and LA.
  
  At 15 UTC, big opening on 6 ! Worked KP4 (Puerto Rico).
  
  16:45 UTC : short skip direction EI, G ; contacts via backscatter into F, ON, PA ! !
  
  Evening : contacts on 20, 40m, bad conditions, other bands closed.
  
  In the evening we organised a little party for Jos, ON5SD, birthday.
  
  
  
  Summary of spots in the DX-cluster of that day:
  
  OK1JKR 14220.0 F/ON6JUN/P via ON6BV 0906 05 Jun 2003
  JA3FYC 18072.7 F/ON6JUN/P CQ 0919 05 Jun 2003
  ON4NA 14220.1 F/ON6JUN/P Georges SP/EV D DAY >ON6BV 0930 05 Jun 2003
  N4VN 14031.5 F/ON6JUN/P 1138 05 Jun 2003
  W9OA 18078.9 F/ON6JUN/P 1414 05 Jun 2003
  JR1GJP-@ 18079.2 F/ON6JUN/P cq cq cq 1415 05 Jun 2003
  IK3GHW 21267.8 F/ON6JUN/P "D" day 1419 05 Jun 2003
  SP5LGS-@ 18078.9 F/ON6JUN/P Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum1431 05 Jun 2003
  ON4MGY 7072.3 F/ON6JUN/P D-Day activation op. Jos ON5SD1609 05 Jun 2003
  ON1DNF 50190.0 F/ON6JUN/P via ON6BV 1703 05 Jun 2003
  ON5TN 50190.0 F/ON6JUN/P 1737 05 Jun 2003
  F5YJ-@ 10104.4 F/ON6JUN/P D-Day call - QSL > ON6BV 2106 05 Jun 2003
  
  

Day 3: Friday 6/6/2003 ----- D-Day:

• Up at 5:00 UTC, It’s D-Day ! Contacts on 20m and 40m in voice ; 30m in CW ; some short openings on 15m and 6m.
  Very poor conditions ! Most of the HF-contacts are with European stations !
  
  PM : Still poor conditions on all bands !
  
  6m opens at 15 :30 UTC! First in direction South-East, then East and finaly North-East ! At 19 :00 UTC 6 is wide open
  in every direction ! Huge pile up during 1 hour ! At 20 :15 UTC band closed again. 15m is open into Europe.
  
  
  
  Summary of spots in the DX-cluster of that day:
  
  SP2AJO 10105.0 F/ON6JUN/P 0521 06 Jun 2003
  F5PBM 10105.0 F/ON6JUN/P 0536 06 Jun 2003
  F5LGF 10104.8 F/ON6JUN/P 0650 06 Jun 2003
  EA5ASQ 14202.0 F/ON6JUN/P 0809 06 Jun 2003
  ON7AA 14202.3 F/ON6JUN/P 0835 06 Jun 2003
  ON7KJ 14202.5 F/ON6JUN/P qsl via on6bv 0912 06 Jun 2003
  F8ASY-@ 14195.2 F/ON6JUN/P special "D-Day" 1341 06 Jun 2003
  F5JRY 14195.0 F/ON6JUN/P qsl via ON6BV 1352 06 Jun 2003
  EH1CA 14016.9 F/ON6JUN/P spcl stn 1534 06 Jun 2003
  IZ8DPL 50200.0 F/ON6JUN/P Special Event qsl via ON6BV 1928 06 Jun 2003
  ON5PU 50200.1 F/ON6JUN/P in99uf !! via ON6BV 1933 06 Jun 2003
  F5NLY 50200.0 F/ON6JUN/P IN99(>JN08 - DDAY 1952 06 Jun 2003
  
  

Day 4: Saturday 7/6/2003:

• Up at 5:00 UTC. At 10:00 UTC we would closing down the station !
  Active on 20 and 40m voice, 30m CW, higher bands are closed.
  
  11:30 UTC : we started to break-up the station. Only 1 tent stayed to sleep.
  16:00 UTC : time for our Big Barbecue….lots of fun, with the crew, ‘le maire de Ranville’ and his wife, the manager
  of the museum and his crew.
  
  
  
  Summary of spots in the DX-cluster of that day:
  
  OK1AWH 7025.0 F/ON6JUN/P 0525 07 Jun 2003
  DJ9HQ 7063.0 F/ON6JUN/P comm. D-Day 0537 07 Jun 2003
  ON7GO 10116.0 F/ON6JUN/P cq.. 0550 07 Jun 2003
  DJ9HQ 10115.0 F/ON6JUN/P D-DAY >ON6BV 0551 07 Jun 2003
  F5PSR-@ 7063.2 F/ON6JUN/P 0552 07 Jun 2003
  ON4CAS 7058.8 F/ON6JUN/P 0745 07 Jun 2003
  UA9CR 18076.0 F/ON6JUN/P 0757 07 Jun 2003
  F5NLY 50206.0 F/ON6JUN/P IN99(>JN08 - Dday 0814 07 Jun 2003
  LA7FJA 21297.0 F/ON6JUN/P Qsl->ON6BV 1025 07 Jun 2003
  
  

Day 5 : Sunday 8/6/2003:

• Up at 05:00 UTC. We putted everything in the cars.
  
  With a very good feeling we took the raod in the direction of Belgium.
  
  CU next year, Ranville !
  
  
  
  

Results:

• +/- 1000 QSO’s with 60 different country’s

73" de ON4CLC, Steven

Information about D-Day Normandy WW2

General info SFDXAG D-Day expedition 2003

We stopped activating the call F/ON6JUN/P around 12:00h UTC. This year it's 59 years ago that Europe was liberated (D-Day).
This special event station was "on-air" on all major HAM-bands from Wednesday the 4th of June 'till Saturday evening the 7th of June 2003.
QTH was the garden of the "Memorial Pegasus Museum" in Ranville.

The crew:

ON4AFU-Eddy, ON4CJV-Kurt, ON4LBV-Willy, ON5SD-Jos, ON4CLC-Steven

Logistics: Marnix, Steven & friends

Equipement:

Station 1: Kenwood TS 870 … HF CW
Station 2: Kenwood TS 850 … 80m, 40m, Voice
Station 3: Kenwood TS 830 … 20m, 15m, 10m Voice
Station 4: Kenwood TS 570 … 15m, 12m, 12m Voice
Station 5: Icom 746 … 6m voice

Antenna's:

Multi-band … Levy , FD 4 (optional)
40m … Vertical
WARC … 3 band Dipole
20/15/10m … FB 13 Dipole
15/12/10m … Vertical A-99
6m … 4 element Yagi
FD 4 - multiband (optional)

73 from the crew

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