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WE ARE QRV!!!

We are QRV now from JP31RK. What a nightmare to come up that Hill here, but okay. The first QTH we reached was not usable with our Camping Car, no Chance. So we decided to go to our second Option. Using a Tipp from Stefan, LA0BY and a great description from Dick, PA2DW we reached Luster in JP31RK. We climbed a very small road up a Mountain and on the top there is a nice car-parking from an old, not longer used Sanatorium, and, what a luck, we met the Owner doing some preparations. We talked to him, and what should i say, his grandfather was LA3UE, a well know OM. So no more words where needed, he allowed us to stay and use the area, GREAT!

So we started hard to bring up the gear, 2 Masts, 4 Antennas and so on. At 23:30 local we finished and did a barbeque. This Morning we went on Air via Meteor-Scatter and our first QSO took place with SP2JYR!!! Now we have to take down again the Mast with the 2m array and do some changes. Stay tuned, we’ll be back soon 😉

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1st QSO

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Antennas and Take-Off to Central Europe

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Watch out the Skyline!

JP31# reached!

12:30 UTC, 14:30 local time we crossed the border to JP31# at JP31XG

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And that is what we saw towards central europe:

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Now we are going to the first of our qth’s which we decided…

Close to the Target…

We move straight foreward as you may see on the findu website. Last Coffe Break before we climb up the mountains…

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Arrived in Oslo

So, here we are….

We arrived ths Morning at 09:15 at Oslo Harbour and left our Ferry MS Color Express really quick. Than we had to pass the Customs, without any Problems 😉
Now we are on the way straight to JP31 Square!

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Party on Board

Evrthing looks good!!

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We have passed Kopenhagen, now preparing for Dinner.

At the Harbour

This Morning we arrived at Kiel Harbour and waiting now for check in to our Ferry MS Color Fantasy to Oslo.

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Our Ferry to Oslo

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Joachim, DO1EJK testing the local UHF Repeater in Kiel.

On the Road!!

The Tour has just started, if you like, you may track us at this link:

Life-Track

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Here we go!

Preparation goes well

Our preparation work goes well straight foreward. The rented Camping Car was taken yesterday afternoon and we directly started to pack most of the things together in the car. So only ea few things needet to be packed today and than we are ready to rumble!

DXPedition E-Mail Address

The preparation work for the start is ongoing and everything looks good. The generators are tested, Cables are made for HF and Computer connection. GPS Recivers for PC-Clock syncronisation are checked, Image-CDs for Notebooks are burned, puuh. So we start now to pack the boxes.

The E-Mail Address for the DXPedition is:
dxpedition at df1vb dot de

Under that E-Mail Address we will be reachable and will make skeds. But please we will only start making skeds when we arrived and are qrv. We will announce this on that WebSite here and also on the famous on4kst chat (www.on4kst.com). Also we will announce a GSM-Phonenumber under that we are reachable to make skeds (voice or sms).

Hpe to see u in jp31 log, vy df1vb