The Ireland Expedition Log

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The expedition base,a small cottage in IO42WA.
Perfect view direction Canada as desired ...
 but mountains all around in most other directions!

 

We started operation from the cottage on 17.November 2002 as EI/DK5DQ.
The cottage is located in IO42WA. We chose it because it offer free line of sight to the desired direction (VO1) from 100m above the sea level. However, .high mountains to almost all others directions made it difficult to work into central Europe.

 

 EI/DK5DQ log from IO42WA (cottage)

 
Date Time UTC Call RST sent RST r'vd Mode Prop. Complete Locator Comment
17.11.02 19:25 DL6YEH 26 R26 FSK441 MS o.k. JO32VA 120'
300ms/13dB
17.11.02 21:40 PE1OPK 26 R26 FSK441 MS o.k.   40'
440ms/8dB
17.11.02 23:08 DG6JF/p 27 R27 FSK441 MS o.k.   7'
500ms/12dB
17.11.02 23:15 DF8IK R27 27 FSK441 MS o.k.   10'
160ms/13dB
17.11.02 23:27 DL6BF R27 27 FSK441 MS o.k.   21'
1200ms/13dB
 

On 19. November 2002 we got the permission to operate with special callsign EI2TAA
at increased power levels (400W regular, 750W during the meteor shower).

We decided to operate from top of a mountain in IO41TU during the shower, which
was clearly a better location than  the cottage.

 

EI2TAA log from IO41TU (mountain)
Date Time UTC Call RST sent RST r'vd Mode Prop. Complete Locator Comment
19.11.02 05:03 TK5EP 59 59 SSB MS o.k.    
19.11.02 05:04 EI5FK 59 59 SSB Tropo o.k.    
19.11.02 05:05 GW3LEW 59 59 SSB Tropo o.k.    
19.11.02 05:06 EI8JK 59 59 SSB Tropo o.k.    
19.11.02 05:07 F6KHM 55 55 SSB Tropo o.k.    
19.11.02 05:08 G4RRA 57 57 SSB Tropo o.k.    
19.11.02 05:09 F8DBF 55 55 SSB Tropo o.k.    
19.11.02 05:10 GW4VEQ 58 58 SSB Tropo o.k.    
19.11.02 05:30 I1DMP 59 59 SSB MS o.k.    
19.11.02 05:33 IK2YXK R37 39 SSB MS o.k.    
19.11.02 06:00 DF1CF R59 59 SSB MS o.k.    
19.11.02 06:00 DL3IAE/p R59 59 SSB MS o.k.    
19.11.02 06:01 DH7FFE 59 59 SSB MS o.k.    
19.11.02 06:01 DL0UL 59 59 SSB MS o.k.    
19.11.02 06:01 DL1MAJ 59 59 SSB MS o.k.    
19.11.02 06:02 DK8VS 59 59 SSB MS o.k.    
19.11.02 06:08 F4ARU 59 59 SSB MS o.k.    
19.11.02 06:37 DL6YEH 59 59 SSB MS o.k.    
19.11.02 08:32 IW2HAJ 37 R37 SSB MS o.k.    
 

After the shower, we moved back to the cottage in IO42WA. We tried to find a better
location for the antenna than before, which meant using the full 100m of
Ecoflex15 cable. This gave better take-off into Europe than before, but we still
were limited to the direction N - NO.

 

 EI2TAA log from IO42WA (cottage)
Date Time UTC Call RST sent RST r'vd Mode Prop. Complete Locator Comment
20.11.02 19:42 GM4VVX 59A 59A CW AUR

o.k.

 IO78TA  
20.11.02 19:47 G4ASR 55A 52A CW AUR

o.k.

 IO78TA  
20.11.02 19:50 SK6DK 52A 52A CW AUR

o.k.

 JO67EH  
20.11.02 19:52 G0FYD 52A 55A CW AUR

o.k.

 IO83LS  
20.11.02 19:54 G4KWQ 53A 53A CW AUR

o.k.

 IO92AQ  
20.11.02 19:55 GI6ATZ 57A 52A CW AUR

o.k.

 IO74AJ  
20.11.02 20:08 G4HGI 55A 56A CW AUR

o.k.

 IO83PL  
20.11.02 20:33 G3UTS 52A 52A CW AUR

o.k.

 IO94CU  
20.11.02 20:39 G4LOH 55A 55A CW AUR

o.k.

 IO94IA  
20.11.02 22:00 PA0BAT 27 R27 FSK441 MS

o.k.

 JO31FX 30'
20.11.02 22:30 PA0CIS 26 R26 FSK441 MS

o.k.

 JO22FD 25'  300ms/9dB
20.11.02 23:40 DG6JF/p 27 R27 FSK441 MS

o.k.

 JO33QN 12' 220ms/9dB
21.11.02 05:00 DG5CST     HSCW MS

no

   NIL
21.11.02 07:00 DL4DWA     FSK441 MS

no

 JO61QH 1060ms/9dB
21.11.02 20:00 PA2DWH R27 27 FSK441 MS no JO22GD NC 440ms/22dB
21.11.02 20:50 OZ1IEP R27 26 FSK441 MS o.k. JO55XU 5' 540ms/11dB
21.11.02 20:58 EI4IX 55 57 SSB Tropo o.k. IO53HV
21.11.02 21:05 DL6YED     FSK441 MS no NIL
-21:45
21.11.02 22:00 DH7FB     FSK441 MS no JO62 NIL -22:50
21.11.02 22:55 DL1SUZ 26 R26 FSK441 MS o.k. JO53UN 25' 240ms/5dB
22.11.02 00:00 DL9MCC     FSK441 MS no JN58 NIL -00:45
22.11.02 06:17 DH8IAT R26 26 FSK441 MS no JN49GC NC
no RR
22.11.02 07:20 ON4GG R26 27 FSK441 MS o.k. JO20AR 33' 400ms/4dB
22.11.02 07:53 DC9YC R36 26 FSK441 MS o.k. JO31PI 25'
19"/S3
22.11.02 08:25 DL4DWA 26   FSK441 MS no JO61QH NC
22.11.02 08:55 GW4VEQ 52 52 SSB Tropo

o.k.

 IO73SG  
22.11.02 09:09 ON4ANT R26 26 FSK441 MS

no

 JO20AR no RRR
22.11.02 18:50 PE1HWO R27 27 FSK441 MS

o.k.

 JO21GV 26' 400ms/12dB
22.11.02 19:05 PA2DWH 26 R26 FSK441 MS

no

 JO22GD no
RRR
22.11.02 20:00 ON4KHG 26   FSK441 MS

no

 JO10XO NC
22.11.02 21:05 PA2DWH R26 27 FSK441 MS

o.k.

 JO22GD 35'
22.11.02 21:40 OZ1LPR 27 R27 FSK441 MS

o.k.

 JO44WX 9'
22.11.02 22:04 PA1BVM 26 R27 FSK441 MS

o.k.

   56'
22.11.02 23:00 DL4DWA     FSK441 MS

no

 JO61QH NIL
-23:25
22.11.02 23:25 ON4ANT R27 27 FSK441 MS

o.k.

 JO20AR 10' 2000ms/14dB