In November 2021, the third COVID wave was still in full control over Europe, while we explored the Vashlovani National Park in Georgia with our 4×4 camper and were busy planning our next travel destinations. The media was full of all kinds of reports and references to existing travel restrictions. The Foreign Ministry website provided …
2 Years African DXPedition, a HAM Radio adventure! Read More »
We came to Bloemfontein to visit Bernie (ZS4TX), a HAM radio enthusiast, but did also a tour through the city. Bloemfontein is a lovely town, which made a very clean and organised impression, but we managed to find also the city centre, which was, as usually in South African Towns, not so nice anymore. We …
From Mzuzu leads a good road south, which changed, when we took a turn-off to Embangweni, where a gravel road led through the bush. The last bit was really bad, a kind of shortcut our navigation had found appropriate. At the beginning it looked fine, but then it got worse and worse, with finally a …
We decided, that we have to pay a visit to the Cape of Good Hope south of Cape Town, as it is just such an iconic place. The peninsula is actually a National Park and we were looking out for animals too. We stayed at the Froggy Pond Campsite in Simon’s Town, from where we …
Grimeton Radio Station in southern Sweden, is an early longwave transatlantic wireless telegraphy station built in 1922-1924, that has been preserved as a historical site. From the 1920s through the 1940s it was used to transmit telegram traffic by Morse code to North America and other countries, and during World War 2 was Sweden’s only telecommunication link with the rest of …
At Eggum we had the first night below zero with all the puddles thoroughly frozen in the morning. Eddy had set up the 10 meters antenna disguised as a flag pole with our tiny Austrian flag on top. We went to explore the old walls of the construction which housed once a big RADAR antenna …
In Zagreb we met Emil (9A9A) to visit one of the world leading Ham Radio Contest stations. To see this station is like visiting a Formula One racing team, or the opportunity to sail a Americas Cup yacht! The short wave radio communication antenna farm @ sunset Using radio waves you can contact any location …
As I described in one of the last posts, I’m a licensed ham radio operator. So I’m interested in all types of ham radio activities. Very popular is “contesting”, which means to attend a competition. In a given time (e.g. 24 hours) and frequency range you need to make as many 2 way communications as …
As Edi is a licensed ham radio operator, he is allowed to use radio communication equipment to perform radio contacts world wide. This means, he can talk to people all across Europe, or to all other continents just using 100 Watt of power, the right radio and antenna. Märket Reef Finnland , Oj0C most wanted …
