Portable St Peter Ording Beach [JO44HG]

Hi guys!

The fibrepole on the Radiojeep :)

One time per year we go to St Peter Ording beach. This time we had the chance to play with a whole bunch of equipment. We had the ICOM 7300 and the FT-817 running. Martin, DL8LBY, did a bunch of Qs with QRP power and the MP-1 Antenna which actually works surprisingly well in beachy environment. 

I had plenty of time to configure N1MM logger and optimize settings for the upcoming contest. We made CW and RTTY contacts to a couple of DXs (even Japan and Indonesia).

The antenna for the ICOM was a 9m piece of wire, tied to the Spiderbeam fibrepole. At the feedpoint there was the SCG 2000 automatic tuner.

Unfortunately the bandconditions were very poor and so we shut down at 23h local time, brought down the antenna in pitch black and muddy environment.

The MP-1 portable antenna

Next year we'll try some QRO instead of QRP to math the band conditions ;)

73 and thanks for all the QSOs!