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HB9ABX > ANTENN 20.02.08 00:01l 50 Lines 1967 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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From: HB9ABX @ HB9EAS.CHE.EU (Felix)
To: ANTENN @ WW
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40m DX: As CE3CWF qrv in Chile
During January 2008 I was in Chile. I intended to do some tests
with the RoomCap antenna.
Unfortunately, I had to stay in the hospital, and the rest of the
time in the bed at home.
However, I was able to install for one day the antenna and could
test it at night. So far, I could only test it at day time.
What a nice surprise: In the evening after 20h I began to hear
several DX stations.
I heard from Poland a SP2 station, which I called once, and he
answered immediately. Afterwards, I contacted a station from
the Ukrain.
Then, I heared a station from Japan, which answered after a few
calls.
Around midnight I heared Florida (USA) , and also this contact
was made in SSB.
Then, I heared an HB9 station (Switzerland) calling CQ during
20 minutes, but nobody was answering him. I was calling several
times, but he did not hear me. Sorry.
Then I was sleeping some time.
At 4 o'clock I woke up and was watching the band. There were a
few stations from New Zealand. Two stations from Auckland were
talking together. After they finished I called one of them, and he
replied to me immediately.
Then, I heared a few stations from Great Britain, but they did not
answer my calls.
My antenna was a 1.5 m (5 feet) long capacitive radiator, placed
directly on the bricks of the roof, and kept in place by 3 nylon
lines. (No tower, and no supporting mast).
The house was a 2 floor building in the suburb of Santiago
(Ciudad Satelite, Maipu), where all houses are of the same type,
in a flat zone.
Installation time of the antenna: 15 minutes.
My transmit power was 100 W PEP (TS-50), and all QSOs
were in SSB on the 40m band.
This night was a wonderful experience: On 40m so many
DX contacts, as I did know 40m only as a medium range band
in the range of 100 to 2000 Km.
And all this with such a small antenna.
Felix HB9ABX
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