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RApid Deployment Amateur Radio
This was no special activation for any reference, this was just fun in the sun and a RaDAR-style operation. However, nature loves CW and headphones … a lot of visitors stopped by while I was sitting under a shady tree doing some morse-telegraphy. This was a nice day for nature and HAM Radio.
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Summit Activation #460
UNBELIEVABLE – 1st November and an activation in a short-sleeved shirt. We had 20°C on the Piesberg DM/NS-108. This afternoon came 50 QSOs in the log. 3x BPSK and 20 CW QSO on 20m with 25w and a Delta Loop antenna. Then I made QSY to 2m with a 4x Oblong and 40watts for 27 CW QSO. ODX was TMØW for 645km
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(RaDAR = Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio)
This contest is for everyone, at home, in your car, in the field. Any mode , CW , SSB , FM or digital modes. Any band or Satellite. Support your friends in the field, you never know, you may work a really rare grid in the process!
Time: 12:00 UTC – 18:00 UTC
Please see the „Blue book“ , SARL Forum or on www.nwinternet.za.org/zs6bne/RaDAR for contest details. Please use the logbook format available as links on the websites.
The true RaDAR station must have carried the entire station including antennas for at least 1 km prior to setting up, without relying on existing man made infrastructures i.e. antennas, masts or towers.
To be considered as a RaDAR station, the entire station; radios, batteries, mast and antennas must be easily portable and hence the need to carry the equipment for at least 1 km
Saturday and Sunday I tried true RaDAR (Radpid Deployment Amateur Radio) activation. That means: Setup the station in 5 minutes or less and use qrp output. Yaesu says, that the internal batteries of the FT-817 produce 2.5w. I used this weekend first time the internal batteries only, the MP-1 antenna, 10m RG-58 and the PalmRadio Keyer. All very easy in the rucksack 😉
For the first activation I decided Saturday morning. That’s the easiest (subjective) time to qualify a summit. I made in 9 minutes 12 QSO. For Sunday I decided the late afternoon. Not the best time for SOTA. I stopped the time:
arrived on the summit until qrv: 4 min 14 sec
qualified the summit (4 QSO made) : 3 min 42 sec
(made 8 QSO in 8 min 1 sec)
from qrt to setdown the station and leave the summit: 3 min 41 sec
the setup could be faster … 😉
