Again from South America - 2019

In February, we were once again at our South American QTH, where we worked on the installation. The low-power transmitter at the site had "crashed" and was out of order, so a new 130-watt carrier transmitter had to be assembled. The antenna also needed some maintenance.

The 10-watt transmitter was repaired, but modified for use as a beacon transmitter only. On February 25th, this transmitter was put on the air on 6930 kHz, but it failed again after only a couple of transmissions. We finally gave up on it due to time constraints, as we also had to assemble the new transmitter.

The new transmitter was ready for use on March 2nd, 2019, and worked nicely on 6930 kHz. We initially set the output power to 100 watts carrier. Later in March, the frequency was changed to 6945 kHz.

We received a lot of reports, and at the time of writing, 25 reception reports have been received from North and South America, as well as from New Zealand.

Check out our audio player to hear how our transmissions were received in different locations. Amazing results for only 100 watts carrier (approximately 400 watts PEP)!