Arrived in JO73 Monday evening, have a week of holidays now. 🙂 Was busy yesterday helping my mom with some paperwork as she’s in pension now. Good to be inside as the weather was really ugly, heavy winds and rain. Altough it was around 10°C it rather felt like 0°C, brrr. 😉
Today’s the only day of the week predicted with no rain so I meet early with Uwe, DL3BQA, at the contest station. We sorted a few things and grabbed all the stuff for our 80 m groundplane antenna which we set up from time to time for contests. Uwe’s going to do an 80 m SO entry in the WWDX-SSB contest next weekend so good to have a better antenna than our trusty dipole and also good to have a little more antenna separation to the 40 & 20 m antennas. I’m not sure yet which band I will be operating on. Sorrily the good 15 m condx from last weekend vanished completely. 🙁 Not sure they will be back soon enough but keeping fingers crossed, of course. But 40 & 20 m would also be more than tough with our little setup. So I’m really undecided yet …
Setting up the 18 m high fiber mast was challenging with just two guys but we finally made it without any damage to persons or material. 😉 Need to re-work the guying wires some time to 4 instead of 3, that will ease the setup process enormously …