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.

 

 
  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.  

 

 
  RX/TX was a Yaesu FT 900 (60-100W) powerd by a 80 Ah batterie, and a
  batterie charger.

 

 
  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.


  At 17:30 our boat comes to catch us. 

  The last # was 345 at 17:15.
  We had heavy Pile Up in the evening. Big surprise. This activation
  gave us much luck and happyness.

 
 

 

   

   

 

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