DL7DF and Crew DXpeditions

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Sigi Presch - DL7DF and Crew DXpeditions

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Burundi - September/October 2007 - Pictures Page

DXpedition pictures


We had a small bus to bring our equipment to Frankfurt airport	Frank loading the bus, the antennas are too long...

Do we need more than an hour for check-in? Luckily not.	Arriving at Bujumbura Airport - Wolfgang, Sigi, Manfred, Frank

Does this all fit into the car?	Building the HEX Beam

I got new toys :-)	Erecting the Spiderbeam

Phased Verticals for 80m built by Sigi and Jürgen	Wolfgang takes care of the Spiderbeam

Leszek and Jürgen are building the Phased Verticals	Manfred is protected against mosquitos, sun and wind

Twice cut and still too short	Multi tasking - simultaneous erection of the Spiderbeam and the Verticals

There are still plenty of fiberglas rods available for the 4 square arrays	Leszek SP3DOI can't wait to run the first QSOs

Manfred DK1BT	Spider Beam at night

Sigi, Manfred and Jürgen at the three HF stations	The 6m Beam in moonshine - should be working OK for EME

Leszek is watching Sigi, Manfred and Frank. When is the next station going to be available?	DL7UFN at the 6m station running WSJT

The 9U0A Team: Frank - DL7UFR, Sigi - DL7DF, Leszek - SP3DOI, Wolfgang - DL4WK, Manfred - DK1BT, Jürgen - DL7UFN	Our 9U0A operation shacks

The moon over the Burundi Moon Mountains	A surprise ham visit - Manfred - DK1BT, Wolfgang - DL4WK and Elke - EL2TE

Equipment preparation

9U0A DXpedition stored equipment

All the equipment is stored in five heavy aluminium boxes

9U0A DXpedition 6 m antenna

The 6 elem Yagi for 6 m is ready for use

9U0A DXpedition amplifiers

Three amplifiers TY900 for 160m to 10m and one amplifier 9U800 for 6m

Our four square antenna field test


four square antenna for 40 m	DL7DF and DL7UFN speaking about the test results

DM2AYO - DL7UFN - DL7UFR	DL7DF - DL7UFN

DL7DF is testing the four square for 40 m	switching the 30 m four square

using a IC735 as testequipment	DM2AYO and DL7UFN buildung up one vertical of the 30 m four square

four square antenna for 30 m	DL7DF is testing the four square for 30 m

40 m four square antenna coupler made by DM2AYO	30 m four square antenna coupler made by DL7UFR

Our expirenced crew

	DK1BT Manfred on air since 1974 ex calls: Y24RL Y54ZL Y21RO
	DL4WK Wolfgang on air since 1974 ex-calls: DM6LAC Y44VC Y22IC DL2NWK
	DL7DF Sigi on air since 1961 ex-calls: DM4ZBD DM2CUO Y23UO DL7UUO
	DL7UFN Jürgen on air since 1976 ex-calls: DM3WMO Y51XO
	DL7UFR Frank on air since 1984 ex-calls: Y54ML Y54ZO Y24NO
	SP3DOI Leszek on air since 1968

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