Planned activities by PG7V and PH0NO - June 7 & 8

Activating the last remaining "new one" and one or two "most wanted" references

Joining GreenParty 2013 this Saturday June 8, JanJaap PG7V will travel to the last unactivated PAFF nature park: PAFF-071, De Boschplaat. This nature reserve is located on the island of Terschelling, IOTA EU-038.

JanJaap will be working QRP with his FT-817 and MP1 antenna in CW and SSB.

Preceding this activity PH0NO will be active Friday June 7 from one or possibly two "most wanted" PAFF areas in the north of PA. First park will be PAFF-029 - De Velden - and when propagation is good enough the second park on the list is PAFF-001 - NP Olde Feanen.

PG7V was active from PAFF-064 (IOTA EU-038)

CW operation during field day contest from PAFF-064
 
During the weekend of 1 and 2 june 2013 JanJaap PG7V was QRV from the island of Vlieland, EU-038. A part of the island is a nature reserve with reference PAFF-064. This was the first activation of this reference.
 
It is not allowed to take a car on to the island so JanJaap brought his stuff (radio + tent) by bicycle. He worked QRP and although he tried some SSB he only logged CW contacts.

JanJaap PG7V, working CW on Vlieland

A full report can be found here: http://www.pg7v.com/fieldday-operation-from-vlieland-eu-038-paff-064

Two weekend activities from PAFF

This weekend we will have Nick PA2NJC trying his first PAFF activity from De Meinweg (PAFF-008). He will be active on Saturday morning from around 10 UTC.

PAFF veteran JanJaap PG7V will be active the whole weekend from the island Vlieland (IOTA EU-038), activating the new PAFF-064. He is active in the IARU R1 Fieldday CW so if you contact him, please give him a serial number. Outside the contest he will try SSB as well.

PA3FYG and PH0NO from PAFF-048

Multi operator activity from PAFF-048 this Friday (May 10)

So far Hans and I have worked together to run the PAFF program and we have been active from the same references with only as little as one day in between, but we never activated a reference together.

This Friday will change that when we go over to Ooijpolder & Millingerwaard. We expect to be active from around 12:30 to about 16:30 UTC. 

The operation might be hampered by rain - as it seems we have to operate outside to be inside the nature park.

PG7V was active from PAFF-069

JanJaap PG7V used the excuse of a new portable antenna to go out and activate PAFF-069 - Ugchelen Hoenderloo.
Working QRP the conditions turned out to be challenging.
His report can be found here: http://www.pg7v.com/paff-069-ugchelen-hoenderloo

Activation of Duinen bij Bergen PAFF-050 by PA3FYG/P

Duinen bij Bergen  PAFF-050                                   



Windy beach at PAFF-050



2013 - April 28

I made about 40 QSOs on 20m.  

On 40m I got no replay from chasers,

but worked some stations that called CQ.

After50 minutes there were no chases anymore.

Only DX was a VE2 station.



Activation Schoorlse Duinen PAFF-062 PA3FYG/P

Schoorlse Duinen

Schoorlse Duinen PAFF-062

 2013  - April 28

I made about 50 QSOs on 20m

On 40m I got no replay at all.

After 40 minutes there were no chases anymore.

Only DX was a VE3 station.



Highest Dune in the Netherlands - 54m high







QRV near Visitor Center