DL – Bad Ems, Germany

Dates: 21 to 23 June 2015 and 5 July 2015

Callsign: DL/WJ2O and DL/K2KAR

DL – Bad Ems, Germany 2024-04-02T19:01:25-05:00

Bad Ems Germany

Germany is the first of 10 DXCC Entities that we plan to visit during our Central Europe Trip. Total QSO Statistics for Germany can be seen here.

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Hacker’s Grand Hotel, Bad Ems, Germany

Rental

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Brand new E Class Mercedes we’re going to have to suffer with for the next two weeks. Let’s pop the hood and junk it up!

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Oh, yes. I think I can get 12 volts from here.

Relaxation Time

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Seems to be the house beer.

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Waiting for dinner. We’re seriously jet lagged. Karen is eeking out a nice smile while we’re waiting for dinner.

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She drank the whole thing.

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We went for a rainy day walk in the pubs. If I remember well it rained all week!

Bad Ems Germany

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Lahn River. We’re on a river. It needs a sign.

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Hackers, home of the internet hackers.

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Beatles memorabilia. Just to make my XYL jealous.

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More Beatles stuff

Operating Hams

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That’s right, we bad, radio works, we’re making QSOs!

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Karen, DL/K2KAR, making her first QSO
on 20 meters with Peter from Munich.

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This was our second trip up the mountain today. Conditions where pretty bad. Worked a lot of UR’s.

DL/WJ2O and DL/K2KAR QSL Card

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QSL By:KB3IFH

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With the understanding of how the CEPT Licensing Agreement works, we assigned ourselves the callsigns DL/WJ2O and DL/K2KAR.

Trip Statistics Report

Going Mobile

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Karen, K2KAR, making her first QSO in Kemmenau, Germany

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Dave, WJ2O, operating from Kemmenau, Germany

The mobile set-up:

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Connection to the battery

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Tarheel telescoping antenna attached to trunk lip

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JFK to Frankfurt Germany

This is the bad boy who flew us to Germany. The biggest airplane I’ve ever been on and I understand the biggest passenger plane in service today.

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Spending the whole day at JFK with Karen Farnsworth and Adrianna.

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