SV8/OE3MZC/p QRV from CORFU Island EU-052 IOTA Dxpedition

From 5.June till 17.June 2000 Barbara and Mike stayed in the IONIAN SEA (southern adriatic north Greece) on the island CORFU. The island counts for RSGB IOTA award as EU-052. It is located between Sicilly and Albania, in front of the northern Greek coastline and is about 65km long. Corfu is a very green island with a lot of olive-trees, beautiful flowers, nice beaches and great food. The highest hill is 950m above sealevel and offers a great view. A lot of commercial antennas are located on top of PANTOKRATES, in between an old, picturesque monastery.
Equipment of SV8/OE3MZC/p SV8/OE3MZCīs station equipment:

YAESU FT100 HF/VHF/UHF allmode TRX

ACER TRAVELMATE 313T Laptop

SGC Smartuner SG237

Yaesu VX-1 handheld Transceiver

The antenna was mounted onto a 15m high palmtree close to the house. The longwire is tuned by an automatic antenna tuning device from SGC, a SG237 Smartuner. This device tunes any wire lenght to 50Ohm on HF and 50 Mhz bands. Some 12Volts and good grounding is required.

The antenna was just 7m from the sea shore, with good take off especially in south eastern directions.

automatic antenna tuner SGC 237  1,8 - 60 Mhz, 100 Watt pep
running 100Watt with the Yaesu FT100 Transceiver ! During afternoon and evenings we made about 650 QSOs to nearly all parts of the world!

Check the logbook of SV8/OE3MZC/p

Even in SSTV and PSK31 we have been active from EU-052 , offering nice pictures of our holiday resort. The laptop served as decoder using software as JVFax 7.1 and DIGIPAN PSK31. SSTV transmissions from Corfu Island !

Here some more pictures from CORFU:

All pictures have been taken using an OLYMPUS 900 Digitalcamera

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