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title, date, language, pota-locator, bands, mode, transceiver, total-unique-qso, antenna
| title | date | language | pota-locator | bands | mode | transceiver | total-unique-qso | antenna |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stiphoutse bossen, Mikboomweg | 2025-07-19 | jp | NL-0233 | 20m, 40m | SSB | Yaesu FT-897, Icom IC-705 | 8 | Endfed |
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.
Using my Endfed antenna.
This time I tried using a throwing weight to get my antenna up in the tree. This worked really well.
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!
