Portable at St Peter Ording Beach (or close to...)

Portable at St Peter Ording Beach (at least that was the plan)

Left: 12m pole with vertical
Right: 10m alloy pole with HyEndfed

DL8LBY (Martin) and DG7LAN (thats me) went portable on 10-19-2019
The plan was to go to the beach like we did the years before. But due to a really high tide level we had to find another location. We simply didn't want to get stuck with the car in salt water.

We went to a nearby parking lot. Fantastic location. Just 40m off from the main road. Quiet little place. Since it was raining most of the day, no tourists were expected. About an hour later, we had the antennas up and tuned. The Hyendfed worked out of the box. Mounted with the feedpoint on the 10m pole and configured as a sloper to a 30m away fence. The vertical groundplane needed a little more tuning since we used it for the first time.

first measurement: Vertical GP

inside the rats nest

After 30 minutes of operating, a woman in a small jeep showed up. She introduced herself as being from the NABU (Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union) which is one of the strongest misinterpretation of nature protection in Germany. She told us to get down the antennas and leave the place since we were actually 'disturbing the birds'. Really? Finally we left the place since she also explained that we were on private ground. So we went to a different parking lot a few km away. 30 minutes after raising the endfed antenna she showed up again. Seems like she drives around the whole day to f*ck ham radio operators. After the same discussion we decided to ignore her more or less and continued our work. The Work All Germany contest already started and we focused on getting some points into the log. No birds were killed during the whole operation!!

final setup: 10m pole with HyEndfed
sloping to the parkinglot-sign

Really interesting: The HyEndfed antenna did perform really good. In most cases much better than my 40m/30m vertical. Didn't have a chance to compare on 40m DX though. But I can really recommend it for portable operation. It was the version with 80m included, 22m long, max. 200 Watt.