LA/DL3YEL 2005 from JP41xk

Stefan, LA0BY and me arrived at the JP51 cottage on Monday, Aug. 08, 1 day later as expected. WX was not so good for the planned trekking tours, so we had more time for the radio and a lot of QSO's from JP51BP.
On Friday, Aug. 12, early in the morning, i left the cottage to drive about 50km to a small patch called Fagerhoy,
just a handfull of cottages, in JP41XK at 1050m asl. The QTH has a perfect negative horizon from N over W to SE, from 140 to 70 deg. it is still quite good (see pictures below).

I was qrv at 10,00 UTC using my FT897, a BIAS modified Mirage B1030G and the good old 10el. 2.3wl Yagi.
The PA gives 300W at 13,5 Volt, but with the small 350W generator from Stefan i had to use a 12V battery which will reduce the output to about 180 to 220W.
I checked 144.200 for SSB-MS first but found only few reflections while 144.370 was showing good activity and bursts of 1-3 seconds. I came back on .200 and immediatly heard "CQ DH0X...break" so i replied with report and the 1st qso was made at 1023 UTC with a single burst. Within the next 23h's, 78 QSO's were made, 1 Tropo with LA5KO, 26 SSB-MS and 51 FSK-MS. See the full Log for details. I did not have any sleep during the night, but that was maybe not too bad as the temperatue at 1050m ASL went down to 5° Celsius.

More MS-SSB would have been possible if more stations would use this mode. Early morning of the 13th i was qrv calling CQ for an hour, but it ended in a NC-QSO with HA6ZB and a long rag-chew with DK3EE about MS-condx, weather and barbecue...

JP41XK is easy to activiate. Just a sidestep from the E6 Oslo <>Trondheim, take the small bridge at Hundorp and follow the signs to Fagerhoy. 18km of easy, but unpaved road. Go right at the crossing in Fagerhoy. In Fagerhoy is a simple place for a overnight stay. 3km north of the city is another place, but it needs a 4WD with good ground-clearnce.

VY 73 de Ulli, DL3YEL

Sunrise (without activity) RIG Take-off 150 to 210°