On Air from Fortess "Brandenburg" 2009

foto: © http://www.die-brandenburg.de
In this summer our team was on air from the very old fortress "Brandenburg" (THB-067).
This old fort is about 7 kilometers far from the mainpoint and center of the middleage "The Wartburg" (THB-001)
You can found some fotos in this video about geocaching: Brandenburg an der Werra
Some fact about this fortress are here in german: Die Brandenburg
The crew from our clubstation DF0ESA was on air with FT890 barefoot and with simple dipole. Fotos from this activity:


fotos © DL5AWI

DF0ESA/p on air again from a castle

The Clubstation worked again from Wartburg Castle first days in May.
Operators DG1BDF, DL5AWI, DL6OO, DL7AQI, DM3AWK , DO3AWE and DO5AWE activated the reference THB-001 for the World Castles Award (WCA), using the callsign DF0ESA/p. They planed to activate the Castle on as many HF bands as propagation permits.
Fotos:

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Awesome Expedition by the Russian Robinson Club

Around this year IOTA-Contest (Islands on the Air) a team of members of the RRC (Russian Robinson Club) make an adventure to a very lonley place of the world: to Chuginadak Island (Islands of Four Mountains group)in Alaska.
According to Homer office of U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service, permission to visit this island is not needed. Dangerous was an active volcano.

They are using the callsign KL7DX wich is courtesy of Alaska DX Club.
On the website from the team, you can learn much more about this expedition:
RRC expedition to NA-234
The awesome and great video about the activity:

Around the IOTA contest, the team is not very connected with the rest of the world, because poor sunspot conditions, in the northern hemisphere especially poor.
I had worked at this contest also with my call DL5AWI. The result was over 800 contacts mostly with island operators. I´m a member of the RRC, my mebership number is 289 and I operated from several rare islands in the past years.

The KL7DX team make a short video about the poor conditions during the IOTA-contest on this place:

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Operation from the " Muehlburg"

At the foreland of the
Thuringia Forest
between the cities
Arnstadt and Gotha
are prominent castle
silhouettes outlined
against the landscape.
If you driving on the
Autobahn across this
area, you can see this
wonderful panorama.
It is the scenic
imposing terrain of
the steeped
"Drei Gleichen". The name originated from the 11th
century castle Gleichen (THB-037) and the Muehlburg
(THB-36) constructed in the year 704.
The adjacent "Veste Wachsenburg"(THB-088) was build
up in the 10th-century. The two castles are seperated
around 6 miles. Only ruins remain from the first two
castles, while the "Veste Wachsenburg" is the best preserved
castle of the three.
Today is it a hotel with restaurant.
This area is a very popular destination. The countryside with
its rare plants and flowers presents an unforgettable picture
of unity and harmony

Every year in July, in occasion of the
IARU HF World Championship a part of the team DA0HQ
(German National Team) operate from the castle ruins of
Muehlburg (THB-036). The team compounded the best
amateur-radio operators around this area and she working
together on the higher shortwave bands, mostly of
10 meters/28mcs.
All technic and antennas, power supply/generators need
to load up from the valley to the hill from the boys in a very
hard work.