9U0A

Burundi - September/October 2007

Pictures

DXpedition pictures | Equipment preparation | Operators | Pictures Page 2

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 experienced 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