Hi All,
We are
safe and back home again after the very nice trip to Palestine.
E44CM
made 336 initial EME QSO’s on 2 mtr. and 40 QSO’s on 70cm. It was
great fun for us to work so many stations.
Yesterday evening we arrived at Schiphol airport in the Netherlands,
but 3 of our suitcases where lost !
They
contain about 90% of our radio-equipment so we hope they will be
found soon…… airline companies are looking what has happened.
The
QTH in Jericho was great, a good and safe place for the antenna was
found on the roof; it was easy to put our tripod, fixed with 6
concrete blocks.
Some
QRM, about 6 dB unfortunately particular during moonrise, so it was
difficult to hear the weak ZL stations. Moonrise was completely free
looking over the Dead Sea about 10km. away, but moonset was blocked
by mountains up to 13 degrees.
Due to
the fact that Jericho is located 250 mtr’s BSL (below sea level)
the lowest city in the world, we were not able to complete Tropo
and M.S. QSO’s, very sorry for this……. but if you don’t try you
will never know if it is possible or not, hi. We did receive a few
very short reflections and stations in LZ and YO heard some of us.
When
the moon was below the horizon we did some sightseeing and visited:
Hishams’ palace with ancient buildings, Mount of Temptation with a
nice old monastery; the Dead sea for some swimming and the old town
of Jerusalem with the Western Wall.
We
like to say many thanks to all who contact us and all who helped us
with making this trip a success.
QSL
info and some pictures can be found on https://www.qrz.com/lookup/e44cm/
Hope
to CU in future from another nice DX-location, best 73’s, the
E44CM – team:
Jos, PA3FYC
Chris, PA2CHR
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