7QNL (OP: PA3FYM) Malawi DXpedition May-June 2014
‘Holiday style’ DXpedition to Malawi in 2014.
The special (but unusual) callsign 7QNL was issued to me.
It was my plan to participate in the CQWPX CW 2014 contest.
However, lots of stations were not able to log what they heard
in the air (namely 7QNL) due to incompabilities with their
logging software (?? !)
This resulted in slowing down rates to such a pathetic
extent that I went to bed after calling for almost two hours,
having only 12 QSO’s (!) in the log, while just before the start
of the contest I had pile ups in ‘DX mode’ with SSB-rates of around 90/hr.
To reduce frustration I begged for an additional licence
the next day, and got 7Q0NL.
7Q0NL reached 3rd place in Africa (continent).
This video also attempts to demonstrate that building
vertical dipole arrays (VDA’s) is very simple.
But… also demonstrates VDA’s are ‘performant’ anywhere
and not ‘only’ above salt water, like people are indoctrinated to believe.
Thanks to everybody who called 7QNL and 7Q0NL!
QSL via PA1AW.
Disclaimer: this was/is my first video edit project with Kdenlive.
atoll logiciel
