Friday, July 5, 2019

African Tour

African tour

Pista, HA5AO, reports that he will arrive in Kingdom of eSwatini (Swaziland) on September 15th, and plans to stay until October 1st.
His license for the 3DA0AO callsign was issued last year. The flight and room at Mountain Inn Resort at Mbabane is booked.

His plan to start to set up antenna and station on the 16th and can be expected on the air by the evening. The station set up contains the
Elecraft K3S with a KPA500 and fed into a vertical antenna.

Pista will operate on the 80-10m bands using mainly CW and FT8 on the higher bands. Pista plans to be active on September 21 and 22nd in the

All Africa DX Contest as a Single-Op/Single-Transmitter/CW-Mode/All-Band/High-Power entry.

After the eSwatini operation Pista, HA5AO, will arrive in Lesotho on the 1st of October and plans to stay until October 19th. He will use again the 7P8AO callsign. Flight and room at Molengoane Lodge is also booked.

Due to other commitments the operation from Lesotho will take place during his free time mainly on CW and FT8 on the higher bands.
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https://www.ha5ao.com
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