In addition to their presence in the GDXF and EUDXF booth, team members were busy with sponsorship commitments with various clubs and corporate sponsors. These commitments were happily taken care of.
A busy Ham Radio Friedrichshafen for the W8S team
Online Propagation prediction chart for W8S by OH6BG
Jari, OH6BG is well known for his online VOACAP portal for all your daily propagation predictions.
For our DXpedition to Swains Jari has made up a default DX propagation chart.
The timeframe in October as well as the antennas and power that will be used on Swains are set by default, so you only have to put your gridsquare and antenna situation in the designated boxes and the chart will show you the best bands and times to make it into our log.
The direct link to access the prediction chart is: https://www.voacap.com/dx/swains/
73,
For team W8S,
Martin PA4WM
www.swains2023.com
31 degrees C. A perfect day to build antennas
Martin PA4WM:
Today was hot. 31 degrees C. A perfect day to build, adjust and test the 40m 2 elements array.
Because of the beach width other then the usual 90 degrees phase shift, I used a 135 degrees shift and a 1/8 wavelength spacing between elements. 5.3m in this case. In basic, similar to a ZL special or HB9CV.
40 radials were used for the entire system.
After some tweaking of the individual elements and previously cut to length coax lines, it yielded an swr of 1.4.
Ready to rock and roll.
As so many other times Monique, my wife assisted me laying radials and setting up the masts.
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