IW0UEI
expedition to JN30XN, September 2004
After the successful
expedition during the Perseids and because the weather was still good enough I
decided to go back to JN30XN a few more mornings.
This time the crew
consisted of myself and 1 rat, who has now passed away…..
Every day the weather was quite good, especially on October
1. Since I had to
leave from the winterport of Fertilia this time the distance to sail increased
by about 17.6 nautical miles and sailing time increased to about 2 hours. I left home in
MS reflections during the
first three days very very bad. The fourth day
they were much better as can be seen from the log.
This time as well as last time I was QRV with a 5
element 0.65wl antenna (part of a 9 element F9FT), for the next time (possibly
the beginning of October) I am working on a 5 element 0.75wl antenna (part of a
15 element CueDee). It is very difficult
to get much antenna gain because of the movement from the boat. Because the boat is small a narrow angle will
often point at the water or at the moon but not the direction I want to
beam. A short antenna with big
horizontal and vertical angle works best.
The power used is limited to about 70W because of
power limitations on the boat. Higher
power requires the engine to run continuous or using a generator.
The numbers:
4 mornings of operation
11 FSK441 QSO’s
1 JT65 QSO (tropo)
7 SSB QSO’s.
150 Nautical Miles (288km) sailed
18 hours of sailing
360km by car
Equipment used:
Icom IC820h
Icom IC706 (spare radio)
Microset PA 70W output
Dressler preamp with CF300
5 element antenna (part of a 9 element Tonna)
4 meter H1000 cable
Toshiba X3000 notebook computer
Homemade Audio/Vox interface
September 28, 2004:
Active today from
abt 06:25-12:00z. A little longer than
planned due to the good sea conditions.
Meteor scatter conditions were not good at all (only 8 pings heard in 5
hours) so the result is only 2 completed FSK441 QSO’s and a few tropo
QSO’s. Congratulations to the lucky
ones!
September 29, 2004:
The sea was not as
calm today. More wind
and higher waves but still QRV till 06:20-10:40z. Rocks remain bad, several QSO’s NC.
September 30, 2004:
Nice and quiet
sea. A good day to be out. Today I was accompanied by dolphins. Sadly they can not make rocks… Only 2 stations complete.
October 1, 2004:
No wind, sunshine and a quiet sea. Temperature about 18 degrees. Today was a good meteorscatter day with 6
completed QSO’s.
JN30XN
Operation LOG, September 2004
|
Date |
UTC |
Station |
Locator |
Best P/B (ms/db) |
Mode |
Via |
|
2004-09-28 |
07:27 |
PA3FSA |
JO23FS |
1660/8 |
FSK441 |
MS |
|
2004-09-28 |
09:02 |
F6DRO |
JN03TJ |
460/6 |
FSK441 |
MS |
|
2004-09-28 |
09:20 |
IK0BZY |
JN61GW |
S/R=R41/51 |
SSB |
Tropo |
|
2004-09-28 |
09:22 |
IW0GPN |
JN62FB |
S/R=R51/51 |
SSB |
Tropo |
|
2004-09-28 |
09:26 |
IW0BET |
JN61FS |
S/R=R51/51 |
SSB |
Tropo |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2004-09-29 |
10:00 |
PA2DW |
JO22GD |
1000/9-200/12 |
FSK441 |
MS |
|
2004-09-29 |
10:24 |
IW0FFK |
JN61FS |
10/-17 |
Jt65B |
Tropo |
|
2004-09-29 |
10:37 |
F9HS |
JN23AT |
S/R=R53/53 |
SSB |
Tropo |
|
2004-09-29 |
10:39 |
F1NSR |
JN33JK |
S/R=R53/54 |
SSB |
Tropo |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2004-09-30 |
06:38 |
PA0V |
JO33II |
460/14 |
FSK441 |
MS |
|
2004-09-30 |
07:28 |
PA3DZL |
JO21HM |
320/9 |
FSK441 |
MS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2004-10-01 |
06:40 |
ON7EH |
JO20FV |
560/7 140/8 |
FSK441 |
MS |
|
2004-10-01 |
07:15 |
DK3WG |
JO72GI |
800/9 700/10 |
FSK441 |
MS |
|
2004-10-01 |
07:29 |
PD0ORT |
JO23RE |
420/2 |
FSK441 |
MS |
|
2004-10-01 |
07:42 |
OE6IWG |
JN77PK |
8000/10 |
FSK441 |
MS |
|
2004-10-01 |
08:50 |
PE2RMI |
JO23MH |
2400/8 |
FSK441 |
MS |
|
2004-10-01 |
09:15 |
DL6BF |
JO32QI |
780/10 |
FSK441 |
MS |
|
2004-10-01 |
10:11 |
IW0FFK |
JN61FS |
S/R=R53/53 |
SSB |
Tropo |
|
2004-10-01 |
10:12 |
IW0GXY |
JN61AX |
S/R=R54/53 |
SSB |
Tropo |
Squares worked:
audiofiles available:
The
following is a list of stations heard and/or worked and audiofiles
available. If you are interested in
receiving any of these audiofiles please let me know. I will send them in ZIP format. You can ask directly on the ON4KST chat site
or via subdive-pleaseremovethis at libero dot it.
|
Date |
Call |
N.audio files |
|
28-09-2004 |
F6DRO |
1 |
|
28-09-2004 |
PA3FSA |
2 |
|
29-09-2004 |
IV3GTH |
2 |
|
29-09-2004 |
IW0FFK |
2 (JT65) |
|
29-09-2004 |
PA2DW |
7 |
|
29-09-2004 |
YU7EW |
2 |
|
29-09-2004 |
Z32UC |
2 |
|
30-09-2004 |
DK3WG |
3 |
|
30-09-2004 |
PA0V |
2 |
|
30-09-2004 |
PA3DZL |
3 |
|
01-10-2004 |
DK3WG |
8 |
|
01-10-2004 |
DL6BF |
5 |
|
01-10-2004 |
DL8GP |
1 |
|
01-10-2004 |
DM1CG |
2 |
|
01-10-2004 |
ON7EH |
10 |
|
01-10-2004 |
PD0ORT |
2 |
|
01-10-2004 |
PD0RFU |
1 |
|
01-10-2004 |
PE2RMI |
2 |
QSL information
QSL only via
direct. All QSO’s will be confirmed via
postal mail, please send your card the same way to:
Antonio Achilli
P.O. Box 486
07100 Sassari
Sardinia
Italy