Olivier ON4EI will again be QRV from Ireland near Fethard (IO62EL) on top of Benneshill (170m asl) with his Irish callsign EI8GQB, October 25th to 31st 2010. He will enter the CQ WW SSB CONTEST as SOAB Low Power Non Assisted (October 30-31).

Reference frequency before the contest is 7.150 MHz +/- QRM. During the week before the contest he will build 2 reflectors East-West for 40m and 2 for 80m on his vertical, using the SPITFIRE ARRAY concept developed by K1VR and W1FV. Equipment: 18m vertical top loaded monopole and Inverted V for 160/80/40. Spiderbeam for 20/15/10. Rig is Elecraft K3 100 W. See his expedition blog here.