VHF Activities - 144 MHz
YU5FAD
First activities were in the most popular ex Yugoslavia contest Tesla Memorijal in july 1982.
We worked from good location which is 1700 meters above the sea level about 40 km away from my city.
At that time we had just FT 221 and about 10 watts in 11 el. yagi antenna.
YT5G
The most interesting place for work in contest for me was the location which is about 250 km away from Gevgelija and the mountain hill is about 2.600 meters high.
From that place we made Macedonian record in number of qso's and the final result in 1990.
The working equipment was quite good for that time: Kenwood TS711 E, TS-811E, home made amplifier with 400 W output and 44 el. antenna sistem.
In 1987 i started to work on 144 MHz through meteor scater (MS) as YT5G and I made many qso's, some of them were even on SSB.
At that time we used about 400 W and 44 el. YU0B antenna, Uher 4 speed audio recorder and memory key with 1.200 wpm.
I had some lucky days to catch E-Sporadic several times but the most memorible was the first one in 1986 which was extremely long with very strong signals from all over Europe.
4O3T
In 2006 was my first 144 DX-Pedition in Montenegro from famous 4O3A location. With Anton ON6NL we made first meteor scatter contacts in new DXCC.
Anton made first EME qso with W5UN and some more with other stations.
More about this expedition HERE