Our first real work on 160M from Vietnam 

             Special Contest Call   3 W 3 W - Doson, Vietnam

 We are back in Hanoi, the expedition was successful, but we had many problems with the local authorities to get permission to setup the antenna and equipment. We got very close to canceling the expedition as the local police phoned all hotels along the coast line, not to let us operate and rent rooms to us. Saturday 27.01 at 1300 Local we got the permission at the 3rd alternative location after the primary locations were rejected by the police and the hotel owners.

After inspection by the local police, signing of agreements and checking of serial numbers on the equipment, we started operation 3 hours after sunset. The first night we used a dipole on a 17m mast, 2 meters from the sea. For the second night this antenna was modified to an L antenna or modified GP antenna, 20m slanted vertical part and 20m horizontal, plus one radial of 42 meters long about 3 meters above the sea water. This worked better. We`did not have enough height for the projected delta loop, which was planned for location 1.

In order to escape the local electrical noise of S9 + 40dB on 160m, we had to operate from the car of Stan 3W9JR, sitting at a table beside the trunk of the car under an umbrella, the temperatures outside were quite low at night, we had to wrap ourselves in blankets while operating.... The receiving antenna was an active whip, 2 meters tall, with 100m coax, away from the transmitting antenna. We made about 250 QSOs, many EU and a few US stations.

Finaly we made 257 QSO with more than 100K points. Special thanks is to all OK/OM friend in our log. You can search you callsign in our log HERE !!!!!

We made OM7M, OM3DX, OM0WR, OM8A, OL1A, OK1KT, OK2ZC, OK1VD, OK1TN, OK1AU, OL5K,OM1BM, OK2W, OM7CA, OM3JW, OM3PC, OK1TP and  OM7JG