ES3RF: Estonian HAMRADIO Station

On May 7, 1895 a Russian physicist and electrical engineer Alexander Popov presented a device, that received signals from the Hertz spark vibrator at a meeting of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg.
This experiment demonstrated the possibility of transmitting messages over a distance without wires. In Russia and some other countries, May 7 is celebrated as the “Day of Radio”.
In connection with the 120th anniversary of this event the SRR (Soyuz Radiolyubitelei Rossii) organizes and conducts the Activity Days “120 Years of Radio.” More info radio120.hamlog.ru The Activity period was started at 21.00UTC  UTC  March, 31  and will be over at 20.59 UTC April, 30, 2015.
There are 4 types of awards: MIXED, CW, SSB, DIGITAL. Below are, which I received.
          

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Very strong wind crashed my YAESU G-1000DXC azimuth rotator on 144 mhz antenna
(4 x 2M18XXX) one week before VP8DQE expeditions was activated from grid GD18BH (Falkland islands). But nothing happened with elevation rotator. So, it was possible to get new DXCC and main grid square to rotate antenna manually.  Of course, I need to lower down a mast, to disconnect the rotator from the H-shaped frame and to ask the Lord that there was no wind…
After QSO was completed, on the next day the hard job was started. Few pictures below shows the process.

Step by step:
– some elements of a mast were cutted off;
– special tool for fixing mast after disconnection from reductor;
– screw jack for lifting up antenna’s mast;
– mast is lifted up and fixed;
– rotator removed,
– device for fixing mast.
I installed the same rotator, but older version: G-1000SDX,  so no need to make new holes for screws.
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DXCC # 38 is confirmed on 70 cm EME.
HB0/DM1CG QSL cards for EME QSOs on 144 and 432 Mhz was arrived on last weekend. HB0 on 2m was confirmed before by PA2CHR.

On this morning, around 07 UTC, I’ve got SMS from my friend Matej, OK1TEH. He suggested to check 2 m band for tropo, as he heard beacon OH2VHF/B in JO70FD. Sure, I turned ON my TS-2000 and found “CQ de OK1TEH” with 579 signal report! We complete QSO and  after we tried on 70 cm, but without success.  Than I started to monitor 2 M band and 20 minutes later found SP3IYM, DM1VPL, DL1HTT and some other stations. All from SSW direction. This fine tropo was proceeded almost whole day. My last QSO was with R2FAD on 70 cm at 13:51 UTC. 32 QSO on both bands. More useful to see some statistic by pictures below. And extraction from my logbook in the end of this article.
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Looking back, I was very surprised of my activity in the air. Unexpected, many QSOs on HF bands. But this is, because, I participated in a two great sport events in Russia: The Winter Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi and F1 Russian Grand Prix Sochi Circuit. For this participation I’ve got awards.

Total QSO score 1378: 593 on HF and 785 on VHF and up bands.

Full statistic for VHF bands in the table below. And couple of diagrams too.