4E1ADW – Klaus & Lita

WPX 2018 CW Contest

Surprise in the mail: plaque for CQ WPX CW contest 2018

FT-818 portable setup

Finished the setup of my portable station. All components are mounted together using maker beam profiles: FT-818, PA MX-P50M, ATM Z817, Solar charge controller and Computer interface.

Computer interface and solar charge controller

Endfed Antenna 20 m – 40 m – 60 m

Endfed as inverted vee on the 6 m portable fiberglass pole

Fiberglass pole top with coil and guy wires

The results for the CQWW WPX Contest 2018 are out for CW and SSB. I was able to achieve in both modes #1 in the Philippines for all bands, low power. In CW, first time ever, I became continental winner for Oceania.

Equipment: IC-718, 100W, Inv. Vee dipole for 40 and 80 and 3 el Spider beam for 15 m and 20 m. For 10 m I just matched the Spider beam with a matchbox.

cqww-wpx-ssb-2018 — Reached 1 Mio Pts. #3 in Oceania, #16 world wide, not too bad

cqww-pfx-cw-2018 — Didn’t manage 1 Mio Its, but still enough to become #1 in Oceania

VHF/UHF Tranceiver FTM-400XDR

Visit of JJ1DQR

INFEX 2018 – DX1ACE

The 2018 International Friendship Exchange (INFEX) and DX Contest took place on Feb 17th, 2018. DX1ACE participated from the National High School Dasmariñas.

OCF dipole for 40, 20 and 15 m on a 12 m fiberglass pole and commercial v-shaped multi band dipole

girl_scouts — Girl scouts having fun with the radio

Visit 4F1AR Ali

VHF/UHF Repeater in District 1 Philippines

I just installed a VHF/UHF antenna in Tagaytay, and tried to find a list of relay stations. It is quite difficult at the moment, most of the information found in the web was outdated. Here a short list of repeaters, I can access.

Spider beam in wind gusts

My spider beam is up for one year now in Tagaytay. Unfortunately we have a lot of wind here, and the element wires of the beam started tangling.

I can only get it down in March or April, to check and bring some more tension to the lines and wires.