177 RC-BLI Barberyn Island |
The Barberyn Island has present no own IOTA Reference, AS003 is only valid |
for the Main Island Sri Lanka. If there a new IOTA Ref. publish. I put this here |
on this site. |
This activation is also valid as LOTA (Lighthouses on the Air) |
Barberyn Lighthouse - SLI 002 |
Story: LOGS The QSL |
177 RC-BLI Barberyn Lighthouse Island |
by 177 RC 101Chris and 13 RC 345 Danny ( The Manager) |
Location: 50 Km south of capital Colombo on the
west coast. The Island is about 300 meter from the Mainland. Inhabitans 4 familys. |
Wake up in the Morning at 7:00 ( 01:00 UTC) |
We taked the Equipment by a motor boat and arrived at 8:00 on the Island. |
Then we bring all, with the help of some guys, to
the Lighthouse. We talked the Lighthouse Guard: If its possible to transmit from the Inside of the LH. No problem, he said. The Island has two generators for the Light. One for day and the other for the night. At the Day the Light of the LH is out of course, but the people needs the power.
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Our luck was, we could use the power direct. The lighthouse is 35 meter high. We used a HB9CV on the top of the LH with 30 meter RG58 cable into inside. This was the best position for that horizontal beam.
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RX/TX was a Yaesu FT 900 (60-100W) powerd by a 80
Ah batterie, and a batterie charger.
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So funtastic working conditions. |
At 09:00 was the Station ready. Until 11:00 (05:00 UTC) only about 20 Stations are in our Log. We never think we could broken the 100 Prog wall. But after 12:00 the activation was in good Running.
The last # was 345 at 17:15. |
Min 20 LH exists in Sri Lanka. Klick here for the list of LOTA |
This was the first activation on 11 meters from a Lighthouse and a |
smaller Island in Sri Lanka. Klick here for Islands of Sri Lanka |
In this period its not possible to make again a activiation there but |
maybe again in 6/7 years. |
We will see. A special QSL is printed. |
73´s Chris & Danny |