47DX/SJ27 Gavn Island (Gavn Ø)

On the 15' of June Søren 47DX002 and I made the trip to Gavn Island to activate it for the first time on 11meters.

This activation was part of the DXRC Island festival 08. It was a lot of fun and a good lesson for me, this was my first time on a small activation, i were for some time ago with Tom and Leif on 47DX/FY015 "Tåsinge Island". This activation is a little different from 47DX/FY015 "Tåsinge Island" due to the more primitive things on Gavn Island.


And big thanks goes to Søren for letting me get along, and for the first time see what this kind of activation is all about. The trip from my home to Gavn Island was about 1 hour and 15mins.

On my trip to the island i made a couple of qso's, first my wife who was at home making her hobby ;) and then John 47DX101 came in and said hi.

The Propagation was very poor this Sunday, really a pity because the day before the propagation was quite good, a little Aurora the night before Saturday may have killed the good propagation we had on Saturday.

The Equipment used was:- Antenna 1: 1 element quad - horizontal (primary antenna) - Antenna 2: 1/2 wave - vertical - antenna 3: 1/4 wave - vertical (Not used) - Radio: Yaesu FT-857- Radio2: Icom 706mk2G - Microphones: originals - Power: 300 watts from amplifier - logsystem: "in the log on a notebook". And my car for office and power :)
















From home Søren and me arranged that i brought lunch, and Søren brought something to drink. Søren also brought some chairs and a little table, it was used for the long lunch and nice and good conversation..

We only made 30 in the log due to the bad propagation. But we listened the guys from 212DX/EU002 Kumlinge Island several times, and also a fast hallo from Tom and Carsten on 47DX/SJ007 - Nekseloe Island about 60km away from us. Not to forget Leif on 47DX/SJ023 Bog Island.

We had a blast of WX sunshine all the time only paused with a little rain, nothing heavy it stopped right away. In fact I got a little burn on the left side of the face by the sun.. ;) The wind was a little heavy but the bamby and ½wave antennas made it all the way. We were most of the time waiting and calling and calling.

The stations in log was pulled in, almost all of them with little signal.
After lunch we took a little brake with a walk in the park near by the castle on the island, and took some pictures for proof.















I had in all an 8hour day trip for the activation.

Conclusion.
I was a little disappointed with the propagation.
But exited about my first time of this kind of activation...

Thanks a lot for a great time Søren.
This was surely not the last trip for me. :D