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