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EI8GQB / EI1A one-man activation

Date Until: 
01/08/2013
From July 7 to July 31, Olivier ON4EI is back to Ireland to operate EI8GQB/EI1A from a caravan with green energy. He will also activate EI1A callsign during:

- the IARU HF Worldchampionship contest, July 13-14
- the CQ WW VHF contest July 20-21 (50 MHz only)
- the Island On The Air contest July 27-28

Activities and antenna experimentation can be followed here, where you will find a live information banner with on air frequencies and information. Also LIVE video streaming from the caravan will be provided here.

Equipment:
  • 18m top loaded vertical monopole for 160-80m-40m bands + 32 radials
  • 3 elements East-West directional inverted V beam for 40m band
  • 200m long beverage RX antenna East-West directional
  • 2 x Spiderbeam antennas for 20/15/10m bands
  • 5 elements ZX Yagi 6m band
  • Elecraft K3+P3 & Kenwood TS2000 100W
  • 500Ah battery bank + 180W solar panel and 400W wind generator

Objective: enjoy radio, run the contests on green energy only and score amongst TOP 10 world stations in SOABLP category.

QSL manager is PA3249.