{"id":15249,"date":"2018-02-12T13:50:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T11:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pi4com.nl\/?p=15249"},"modified":"2018-02-12T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T20:17:14","slug":"pacc-2018-is-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pi4com.nl\/?p=15249","title":{"rendered":"PACC 2018 is history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite a limited antenna park and a small team of operators, PI4COM was active in the PACC contest last weekend. Not an easy task, but in the end we look back with pleasure.<\/p>\n

As is known, our main weapon, the 5el 20m yagi, did not come out of the winter storm unscathed, so we had to promote another antenna for 20m to head antenna. Fortunately, we have a 3el 20m yagi which is fixed on a lower mast. This antenna therefore had to play an important role for our score. After all, 20m is one of the bands which every contest is the basis of the score.<\/p>\n

Saturday morning we started early, in good spirit, with the plan to make this antenna “armstrong” rotable, but when the antenna was checked it was not usable. Part of the coaxial cable had disappeared (cut off) and the connection to the antenna itself had been damaged by the vandalism in such a way that a completely new connection to the antenna had to be made. A firm job that took a lot of time. It was only an hour after<\/span> the start of the contest that this antenna became available and valuable 20m qso’s were lost.<\/p>\n