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| The sun has set, but the antenna is about to go up. A well-equipped night security guard at the hotel wonders what we are doing. The local taxi driver (sitting on the lawn on the left in the picture) helped me set up the DX Commander-antenna. |
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The 3DA0GY tour May - June 2025
After a long trip from Norway, I finally arrived at Piggs Peak. Piggs Peak is located in the Hhohho region in The Kingdom of Eswatini in southern Africa.
The antenna was set up same night that I arrived Eswatini (Thursday 22 May 2025) and at sunrise the day after I started fine tuning it to get the SWR down. The SWR was acceptable from 7 to 28 MHz. I still had an issue on 80 meters.
Unfortunately, the HF conditions were not great, and I noticed that NOAA had sendt out an alert about solar activity.
Well, the conditions do improve, and I took part in the WPX CW contest. Plan B was, please not tell my XYL back home in Norway, to make myself known in the hotel bar.
After the WPX contest ended and a couple of days with many CW-QSOs it was time to visit Marvin Ngwenya at ESCCOM (Eswatini Communications Commission). The license had already been received by mail home in Norway, but now I received the official paper with a "3D stamp" (see picture to the right).
Ngwenya on the right in the picture, LA9GY/3DA0GY on the left.
May 29th started off pretty bad with poor conditions on 10 to 80 meters. K-index 6 and A-index 18. Signal to noise ratio was S6 - S9 (see picture on the right).
I was QRV from Eswatini from May 22 to June 2, 2025 - about 99,5 % of the QSOs on CW and and the vast majority on 10, 15, 20 and 40 meters.
QSL in SAE to my home call LA9GY, Morten Antonsen, Hallsetreina 6, 7027 Norway.
Please notice that letters from Norway abroad are expensive and cost 4 USD (Norway to EU costs 3 Euro).
Feel free to press the BACK button at the bottom of the page to read about JW9GY, ZK2ZE and other "radio tours".
The first QSL cards sent directly to me have now been answered. All QSOs have been uploaded to LoTW this week. (9th July 2025).
This page were updated 11th July 2025
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