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From 17 to 21 October 2008 Frank DH7FB and I were QRV from Icart, Guernsey, in IN94RK. Equipment was Kenwood TS 2000, Lienar Amp with 3CX800A7, 20m Coax Ecoflex10, MGF 1302 preamp and 2 x 9 ele M2 (15 dBd). The antennas were mounted on a horizontal crossboom so that we saved weight. On either side the final ends of the 3m boom consisted of about 1m fiber glass.

The entire setup was tested in DF2ZC's garden in September and worked perfectly. However, there is still a little room for improvement for the next activity.

We had chosen the Pastorelle holiday bungalow (www.lapastorelle.co.uk) which is directly at the South coast if the island and offers a spectacular view to the Saints Bay. Therefore Tropo takeoff was excellent from about 080 to 180 deg, from 050 to 080 it was still very good. All other directions were blocked by buildings.

On 15 October Frank DH7FB travelled from Berlin to my place and the very next morning at 0630 local we both left for a 900 km travel to Saint Malo in Western France, from where the ferry goes to the Channel Islands, where we arrived around 1600 local. After two hours waiting for the departure and another 3 hours ferry travel we finally arrived at the holiday bungalow at 8.30 pm local (Guernsey is 1 hour behind CET) where they were already being awaited by Clare, the owner. When we told Clare that she should not worry if we did strange things in the garden the next morning she directly replied with “Oh…are you radio hams?” Some 16 years ago a group had participated in the WWDX contest from her place so she knew what to expect. However, she might have benn somewhat disappointed because we did not put loads of wires in the trees but installed only two TV antenna like yagis in the small garden, looking south over the Saints Bay.

That was an excellent place for the antenna system, even blocked to the west by the bungalow which could have been helpful in case of high winds. Have a look at the Youtube video taken, showing the take-off to the East!

However, the weather was always excellent: warm and sunny. On the 17th the rig was quickly set up and then we waited for the moonrise to come. Every moon path we changed callsigns. The first moon path we made 94 initial QSOs, the second 43 initals and the third 7. All in all that were 35 DXCC entities via moon plus one via meteor scatter. Best results were with K0KP and OK1TEH who each run a single yagi and with ZL3TY with a 19100 km distance. Also at least one country first was established with UK/DL9LBH in Tashkent. And on 70 cm we easily contacted Dan HB9Q with some 65 watts at the dipole, antenna was a 19 ele F9FT. He was the only contact on that band.

We feel that the result could have been well above 160 initial QSOs as we missed some wellknown callsigns ans we noticed some stations that definitly do not have the GU DXCC preferred calling CQ instead of trying to work us. However, the 145 QSOs is more than we had expected and again, we are very happy that the setup we chose very well passed the test.

Should anyone plan to go to Guernsey with or without Ham Radio we strongly recommend La Pastorelle Holiday Bungalow. It is a perfect place for both...and we regret not having had more time to travel around since our main objective was ham radio related.

We are very grateful to UKW-Berichte and to SSB Electronic for sponsoring this activity.

(The leading number stands for initial, the "___" for another contact with that station. Only complete contacts are listed.)

17 Oct 2008
---Callsign used MU/DF2ZC---
1 18:59 RA6AX -11
2 19:03 IK1UWL-24
3 19:07 JH5FOQ -18
4 19:13 RN6BN -7
5 19:18 DL9MS -17
6 19:21 PAØZH -22
7 19:25 JE1TNL -23
8 19:31 PE1L -24
9 19:37 ES6RQ -24
10 19:41 JHØMHE -23
11 19:45 RU1AA -19
12 19:51 OH6ZZ -20
13 19:55 DJ8MS -15
14 19:59 RK3FG -20
15 20:03 JM1GSH -21
16 20:33 PAØJMV -26
17 20:51 I2RV -25
18 21:03 DL2NUD -21
19 21:07 SV8CS -24
20 21:15 HA6NQ -19
21 21:19 OK1UGA -18
22 21:23 DL7FF -24
23 21:27 9H1PA -23
24 21:31 SP2OFW -23
25 21:39 F6BKI -18
26 21:47 IT9CJC -21
27 21:51 UT6UG -21
28 21:55 SM2A -19
29 21:59 F6HVK -19
30 22:03 YU7XL -22
31 22:09 YO9FRJ -18
32 22:13 HB9Q -15
33 22:19 DDØVF -23
34 22:33 S52LM -16
35 22:37 RA6DA -13 (tx -16)
36 22:45 DK5LA -18
37 22:57 UA9FAD -20
38 23:01 G4ZFJ -24
39 23:11 EI4DQ -19
40 23:21 RA9YDL -24
41 23:25 DK5SO -22
42 23:49 UK/DL9LBH -25 First ZL-MU on 2m?
43 23:57 SM5CUI -21

18 Oct 2008
44 00:01 IK1FJI -19
45 00:05 RX1AS -13
46 00:11 DH3YAK -20
47 00:11 OK1TEH -25
48 00:19 PA3COB -23
49 00:29 YL2HA -24
__ 00:36 HB9Q -15
50 00:41 DL8YHR -15
__ 00:45 IK1UWL -22
51 00:51 W8PAT -24
52 01:05 UA4HAK -25
53 01:11 SP3VSC -25
54 01:37 SM5CUI -22
__ 01:41 PE1L -16
__ 02:11 OK1UGA -17
55 02:23 K9MRI -17
56 02:31 PA3DOL -20
57 02:41 ON7UC -20
58 02:49 G4FUF -19
59 02:53 PA3ECU -20
__ 03:05 RA6AX -7
60 03:09 K2BLA -18
61 03:17 PA2CHR -18
62 03:27 PA3FPQ -18
63 03:31 UA9SL -23
64 03:41 AA7A -19
__ 04:00 RK3FG -13
65 04:05 K1JT -20
66 04:09 VE2JWH -26
67 04:25 AA9MY -26
68 04:47 K7MAC -16
69 04:55 ZS2GK -20
70 05:07 RV3IG -18
71 05:11 DK3WG -24
72 05:15 UA3MBJ -22
73 05:39 W5UN -21
74 05:43 W7MEM -22
75 05:49 DL2LAH -24
76 05:59 OM3BC -21
77 06:23 OH7PI -18
78 06:31 OH2LHE -27
79 06:43 PE1LWT -23
80 06:55 DK3BU -13
81 07:01 HAØHO -17
82 07:19 LA8KV -20
83 07:29 DJ9CZ -22
84 07:35 F1NWZ -20
85 07:43 G4CBW -20
86 08:07 DK3EE -16
87 08:21 XE2AT -25 First ZL-MU on 2m?
88 08:45 DL4WO -21
89 08:51 DC2MW -17
90 08:55 DK4TG -17
91 09:05 DL8EBW -23
92 09:11 DL1RNW -24
93 09:29 EB1DNK -20
94 09:39 DJ3VI -27
---Callsign used MU/DH7FB---
432 MHz: 1940 HB9Q -19
95 19:51 VK2KU -23
96 19:57 JM1WBB -17
97 20:05 JR3REX -17
98 20:09 JH2COZ -25
__ 20:15 RA6AX -10
99 20:25 YU7AA -16
__ 20:33 JE1TNL -26
100 20:35 DK1CO -23
___ 20:41 RU1AA -9
___ 20:45 HA6NQ -20
___ 20:59 I2RV -22
101 21:29 F8DO -25
102 21:37 UA4AQL -18
103 21:51 7K3LGC -20
104 21:57 DK5YA -18
105 22:01 IW4ARD -20
106 22:07 G5WQ -26
107 22:11 YO4FNG -24
___ 22:23 PE1L JO23 -18
108 22:29 OZ1LPR -17
109 23:35 DM2BHG -28
110 23:35 DL8GP -18
111 23:49 G4ZFJ -25
___ 23:59 EB1DNK -18

19 Oct 2008
112 00:27 S52LM JN65TX -20
113 00:31 G4EZP JOØ1GN -20
114 00:45 YO9HP KN35BA -21
___ 00:51 RX1AS KO59FX -23
116 00:59 EA6VQ JM19MP -14
117 01:07 EA2AGZ IN91DV -19
118 01:17 I3EVK JN66DB -17
119 01:23 HA8CE KNØ6EN -25
___ 01:35 HAØHO KNØ7SU -18
120 01:43 F5KCH JN16PW -19
___ 01:55 ZS2GK KF47KT -22
121 02:03 WA2ODO EM94NX -24
122 02:11 KB8RQ EM79SV -15 (tx -13)
___ 02:17 K9MRI EN7ØIU -22
___ 02:35 RA6DA KN96SA -24
123 02:41 RK3WWF KO72QI -29
124 02:49 RV9UV NO34GA -26
125 02:57 KD3UY FM19LG -24
126 03:13 F9HS JN23AT -16
127 03:17 WA4NJP EM84DG -20
128 03:29 K5QE EM31CJ -27
129 05:27 EB5EEO IM98PG -22
130 05:41 OH3KLJ KP21PI -20
131 05:45 VE5UF DO61OV -26
132 05:53 S54T JN75EW -16
133 06:09 S53J JN75EV -19
134 06:29 PA3CMC JO21WI -18
135 06:35 KØKP EN36WV -22
136 06:45 F1TE IN94 -16
137 07:37 N5KDA EM41HM -24
___ 08:27 K1JT FN2ØQI -24
---Callsign used MU/DF2ZC---
138 20:25 ZL3TY RE57OM First ZL-MU on 2m?
___ 21:03 7K3LGC QMØ6HA
___ 21:15 YO9FRJ KN34AW -19
___ 21:27 RV9UV NO34GA -25
139 22:23 RAØFCA QN16IV -23
140 22:45 VK4CDI QG52XH -24
141 22:57 9A3GE JN75EI -22
142 23:45 JS3CTQ PM74UN -26

20 Oct 2008
143 05:57 HA5CW JN97PM -17
144 06:45 DH4FAJ JO4ØLB -23
145 08:59 OK2UZL JN79UH -26

17 Oct 2008
---Callsign used MU/DF2ZC---
1 1228-1239 DL1RNW R27/26 C
2 1641-1656 PA1GYS R26/26 C
3 1659-1736 YU2DX R26/26 C
19 Oct 2008
---Callsign used MU/DH7FB---
4 0921-0930 IV3NDC R26/27 C
5 0940-0948 DL8SCQ R26/26 C
6 0950-0954 DG5AAG R26/26 C
20 Oct 2008
---Callsign used MU/DF2ZC---
7 0949-0952 IW0FFK R26/26 C
8 0954-1001 OK1UGA R26/26 C
9 1001-1010 DK1MAX R26/26 C
10 1010-1017 SP6HED R26/R26 C *
11 1017-1024 DL8II R26/26 C
12 1028-1036 IK0SMG R27/26 C
1040-1052 OK1MDK R26/26 NC
13 1107-1112 S51KK R37/26 C
14 1117-1121 DF5NK R37/27 C
15 1139-1148 DG0OPK R27/27 C
16 1150-1152 DC9YC R27/27 C
17 1152-1155 LA4YGA R27/26 C
18 1158-1202 DL6ZAU R27/26 C
19 1203-1211 DM2ECM R27/26 C
20 1212-1215 OK1MDK R27/28 C
21 1355-1411 SP6IWQ R26/27 C
22 1411-1423 YT3I 26/R27 C
23 1413-1419 DL4DWA R26/26 C
24 1419-1430 SP6NVN R26/26 C
25 1449-1455 OE5MPL R27/27 C
26 1455-1504 DL8NP 26/R27 C *

* Why were you calling us without report? If you copy somebody on MS you should always call him with reports. We were very close to not replying since we assume that MS callers without report don't copy us so there would be no point answering those calls.

QSLs for QSOs with MU/DF2ZC: www.qrz.com/df2zc
QSLs for QSOs with MU/DH7FB: www.qrz.com/dh7fb
QSLs will be printed by 19 December 2008 and should be mailed by Christmas.

We prefer direct QSLs if you want to have your card soon. Via buro it might take much longer up to two years.

Direct QSLs with SASE or SAE plus 1 $ within EU, 2 $ outside EU for postage, please. Direct QSLs without sufficient return postage will be answered via buro only.

Of course, we are happy for any financial support as small as it might be but nothing is asked for and nothing is expected.