Since I was a child, I used to go on vacation at the Rinkobing Fjord in Denmark near Hvide Sande. Since then, every year we come here for a few weeks to do some activities and unwind. As my wife is pregant this year and we will mostly stay in our holiday home and not have too many activities, I thought it would be a great idea to take my mobile rig and my magloop with me to Sondervig. My plan is to get on the radio, drink beer, have some nice QSOs, making BBQ, getting into the whirlpool an then repeat the procedure as often as I like.
The region West Jytland
Operating from the Ringkobing Fjord near Sondervig where only a narrow landstrip lies between Fjord and North Sea. Let’s drink Whisky from Stauning, eat self-caught oysters from Lemvig and have breakfast on the terrace.
MOBILE OPERATIONS DENMARK 20.4.-03.05.24
Mobile operations transceiver: Yaesu FT-991A and FT-818ND.
The first three days were pretty sad: SWR was bad due to faulty cable and connector. Took me a while to figure that out, but a local ship electrician helped me out with a RG58 cable and connectors. Then overall difficult conditions on 10m, so not even my FT8-signals were received somewhere on PSK-reporter. Only contacts possible where Israel and Cyprus and – despite these conditions – I managed to get one connection to Argentina (LU1DX) with a total distance of 12.072 km.
I continued to experiment with a temporary and simple selfbuild 12m and 6m antenna. After a week I received my new Chameleon Portable EFHW, which finally allowed me to use all HF bands in denmark despite my german E-class license.
I also took some time to get familiar with PSK31 and RTTY for the first time and got my first PSK31 contact with F1LYV.