Field day - Stiphoutse bossen, Mikboomweg
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_2025-07-19_

A nice warm day to set up a small station, but sadly I did not make many QSO's with my own setup.

I located my station in the area next to a road.

![location](/images/radio/velddagen/2025-07-19/20250719_gps)

Using my Endfed antenna.

![antenna](/images/radio/velddagen/2025-07-19/20250719_antenna)

This time I tried using a throwing weight to get my antenna up in the tree. This worked really well.

![throwing-weight](/images/radio/velddagen/2025-07-19/20250719_throwing_weight)

However, I transmitted at 15 watt, which does not really make you stand out. Only one Polish station and one German station managed to hear me to make a contact. What often happens is that after I claimed an empty frequency, suddenly other stations start talking over my signal. Without asking if the frequency is in use. Because of my weak signal, I am probably not heard by them when calling CQ. So I cannot really blame them for claiming the frequency, but it did lessen my fun that day.

After a while I decided to seek out PE0CD's station, which was also set up in the same park. He allowed me to make use of his setup (an Icom IC-705) so I managed to make enough QSO to make my activation count. This saved the day for me!

![PE0CD](/images/radio/velddagen/2025-07-19/20250719_PE0CD)
