02/18/2007 | ON4HTI This is the story of ON4HTI participation in the SCR 2007 (February edition).

In january, storms in the coastal area of Belgium had damaged our 3-element, 3-band beam. We could repair it on the saturday just before SCR week.
For 40m we used an inverted V on top of the school builing, and for 80m we put up an end-fed dipole between 2 school buildings.

Propagation on 20m was very bad, we only got to work 3 US states (which included K3FBI on PSK) and no Canadians at all !
So we concentrated mainly on 80m and 40m, supplemented with a bunch of "easy" qso's on 2m.

Despite the bad propagation, after almost 17 hours of operation, we ended up with 220 QSO's and 22440 points, which again broke our own club record (which was 20520 points last year).

We had great fun, and more important, attracted quite some visitors which migth have been inspired to explore this fascinating hobby.


73,

trustee for "O-N-4-Higher Technical Institute" : Luc -- ON7DQ