Last week I was qrv, for a few days, from the village of Zuidlaren. My set-up was the Yaesu FT817nd and a ZEPP for 30M.
This antenna is on the top floor and when I'm there I span the last few meters via the window on the top floor to the end of the garden behind the house.
Conditions where reasonable and I work different station on 30, 17 and 10M.
On this last band I made a nice qso with JY5HX. I heard him calling in cw with the remarks that he listening 2 up. After a few tries he came back for my qrp signal, it was easy to work him. I worked Jordan several times but until now not with qrp. Today I send a qsl direct a hope to receive his confirmation. Via email he told me that I'm in his log.
On the photo you see the Norcal keyer. It works fine for a automatic CQ from the memory.
I toke this photo with my mobile phone.
I also tried to contact PE4BAS on 70cm via a repeater but this was not really success full.
73, Tjeerd (Gose) - PA3GNZ
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