Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend 2010

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Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend 2010

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Yesterday I visited Wally VK6YS and Shaun VK6FSAP at Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse. They were operating as part of the LLW.

Station was a TS2000, AH-811 amp and vertical dipole for 20m and a IC751 (I think it was) and 40/80 dipoles.

A pleasant trip and enjoyable time there.

Some pictures of the operation.

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Re: Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend 2010

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HARG setting up at AU0073 Freo (thanks Martin for pic)

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Re: Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend 2010

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The 9 meter squid pole antenna worked very well down near the ocean. It had an SCG auto tuner at the base and radials , one radial was in the sea.
What are radials I hear you ask ? more here :
http://www.sgcworld.com/radialstechnote.html
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Re: Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend 2010

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D'oh. I'll have to stop connecting the ground wire to my tyres.
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Re: Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend 2010

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HARG Nth Mole at night.

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