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LA3ZA Radio & Electronics
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Posted: 03 Jun 2022 05:20 AM PDT
https://la3za.blogspot.com/2022/06/sv5la3za.html
The polymath Pythagoras was born on
Samos and his birthplace village is now
called Pythagorio.For a short while I’m operating from Samos, Greece with
my old K2. Noise level here next to a high voltage line is S9+ on all bands except 6m, so only digital modes work. The K2's noise blanker does a good
job of removing some of the noise.
The antenna is a quarter-wave vertical for 20 m which also tunes several
other bands. It’s on the balcony with a 7 m Sotabeam glass fiber mast, on
the left-hand side of the street in the image below.
I seem to be able to contact stations between Samos and the Netherlands,
Canary Islands, and Saudi-Arabia as the longest distance. Considering that Pythagorio on Samos is facing south with a hill in the main direction
towards Northern Europe, this isn't too bad.
I’m using a 10W UT5JCW transverter for 6 m. Sadly, that business is now closed due to the war.
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