From our nice campsite, we drove in the direction of Missour, a little town where the mountains of the Middle Atlas end and the desert starts. We did this detour to get to some grids Edi wanted to activate for the ham radio community. On the way, we had some nice scenery and spotted some […]
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First we had booked a ferry for the afternoon (to avoid high waves), then the ferry had at least 1-hour delay, therefore it was already getting dark when we left the harbour in Tanger Med. But we found a good spot at the beach in the village nearby. The next day, we drove inland, past
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We had visited Óbidos before, but a visit to DXPatrol was on the plan. This Portuguese company provided Edi with the equipment to do radio communication via satellite. Antonio, the owner of DXPatrol was so kind to check the setting for us, and together they did a test call. But we also went to visit
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
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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 long wave 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 II was Sweden’s only telecommunication link with the rest
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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
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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
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