Story 19DX/OI



Story from 19DX/OI activity.


As a real island hunter I made some plans to activate an IWI in my area, after some investigation I found a few islands to activate.

On Wednesday ( 15th June ) afternoon I asked my son Brian to go with me and we drove 18 km from my QTH to Osen island only with a small setup and a mobile antenna, at 13.45 we arrived on the island and put the antenna on the roof of my car and CQ on T5 QSY 570 propagations were very low and 14.01 we put our first contact in the log 47DX101 John came out of nothing 5/1 and in the log.

Brian made some pictures and a small movie during my cqcq 19DX/OI on 570 after 2 hours of calling I put 17 stations in my log from 9 dxcc with 3DA012 as longest distance contact, it was nice to hear also a few Dutch friends on freq 19SD285 Ger was the strongest 5/9+20( only 4 KM from his QTH) also nice to work 265 Rene and 066 Steven, 161BD384 was the last one in my log at 16.03 and we drove back home.

On Saturday ( 18th June ) afternoon I made my second trip to Osen starting CQ at 12.00 and first station in log was 56FL001 propagation was very low again and it was not easy there were a few bursts and I managed to work 19 stations from 12 dxcc with strongest signal from 21DX116 Chris 5/9+.

Thanks all for the support to 19AT1035 Colin who visited me and 13ET554 Oliver who also came on Osen, thanks especially thanks to 26DX047 Darran and 47DX101 John for their support and help with all.

I will go back to Osen island as soon as I RX my new Skypper antenna, with this antenna and better propagation I hope to listen you all also from the other IWI's here in my area.


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