Friday, July 29, 2011

Big Gun Portable Ops !!

EI8GQB / EU-115
"Olivier"
2011 IOTA Contest
I worked Olivier EI8GQB (Home call ON4EI ) 
on 40 meters this afternoon ...
from his incredible portable location in Ireland.
He was running a K3 at 100 watts 
and a single 40 meter vertical.
His signal was peaking S9 at times.
Olivier was testing his antennas 
to prepare for this weekends IOTA contest.

Here is a pic inside the portable shack.
Olivier will be running SO2R / 100 watts
with a Elecraft K3 and a Kenwood TS-2000 ...
during this years 2011 IOTA contest.

Here is portable antenna # 1
10 element 20m inverted V antenna 
pointed at the US ...
14.4 dBI gain with 40° 3dB beamwidth
manually bi-directionnal East 100°-West 280°
Look at the take off angle at this location !!

So what are the rest of the portable antennas 
at Olivier's portable antenna farm ?

OTHER ANTENNAS

3 element 40m vertical array 
SPIDERBEAM 20-15-10 m band
18M VERTICAL TOP LOADED 80-40m Band
CROSS DIPOLE 80-40m
Beverage antenna 200m long east-west

WOW !!!
What a portable set-up ...
Look up Olivier on QRZ.com 
for more updates !!

EI8GQB 
is 
"RADIO-ACTIVE"

73 de N4LA


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