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* 2011-11-14 * Most software updated. There will be one short reboot later during the week. |
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| With the permission from Thor, TF4M, his FAROS Beacon receiver has been added to our compilation. Thanks Thor! This makes an interesting view of scandinavian and northern propagation. Currently enabled beacons are:
TF4M at 65 Degrees LA9XKA at 60 Degrees SK6NL at 57 Degrees Unfortunately, SM5AJV (59*) and SM7OHB (55*) beacons has been offline for quite some while. If YOU are running a FAROS beacon and would like to be included in our list, please just drop us a mail with your FAROS-URL (info at sk6aw.net), we will appreciate it. The compilation and information can be found at: http://www.sk6aw.net/condx |
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At southern strong wind (or no wind, faint winds from any direction), you can land in the northern harbour. Very comfortable and close to the lighthouse. At northern winds, you have to bring a very small boat to land in "the shit bay" on the southern side. Or, as today, when we had western winds and old sea - the entire island was hit by waves, both the northern and southern sides was impossible. At the eastern side there is a small opening where it was possible to put the front towards the cliffs and keep the engine running. This was possible but it's 200 meters away from the other sites over uneven rocks, so we had to run over the island with all equipment while the boat and the landing site was flushed by waves. Not many were dry after unloading and loading the boat. The ride home was like a sunday pleasure ride. We went with the waves compared to the outgoing group who went against the waves and basically had a hell of a ride. The whole trip for the day was just finished. Starting at 10:00 from the Market Reef, by boat to Åland, then ferry to Grisslehamn (we had a great buffet of wild meat on the ferry by the way - I really recommend it!), then changing to the ferry bus to Uppsala, another change to the local bus towards Arlanda, finally, flight home to Gothenburg, and another bus and tram ride. Opened my front door at 20:15 just missing the first 20 minutes of the great football game between SM - PA that just ended! Last we heard from the finns, Martti and Juha unfortunatly ended up on a waiting list for the ferry from Mariehamn towards Finland, so if they were really unlucky they had to stay another night on Åland. During the week we had great support and company from Teija and Liisa from the Finnish Lighthouse Society, wich was greatly appreciated! Not a single guest visited the Market Reef during our stay, compared to last time in 2007 when it was summer and calm sea. It's sad to leave this very magic place! I miss it already. It has quite some charm, even close to the upcoming winter with high winds, cold temperatures, "manual" shower outside, and no supplies whatsoever from the mainland (no electric, freshwater, etc). What you bring to the island, you have. Everything else does not exist. I will get back with a real writeup and tons of pictures later on - when I have setteled into normal life again. First I have to adapt to the Swedish language again. It has only been English and very much Finnish during this week. I was the only one not speaking Finnish on the reef this time. Someone said there was almost no pictures of yours truly in the blog, and that depends on that I've only been using my own pictures, so this will be a slight ego-trip since we "file shared" quite good before leaving - sharing pictures between everyone. If you haven't read it yet, you should really read the blog of the Monk Monestary on Market Reef: http://www.qrz.com/db/OJ0X#mnk Also, check the last diary entries from the finnish lighthouse society's last blog entries including our stay: http://www.majakkaseura.fi/eng/market/market_diary_2011/diary_091011/ http://www.majakkaseura.fi/eng/market/market_diary_2011/diary_101011/ http://www.majakkaseura.fi/eng/market/market_diary_2011/diary_111011/ If someone would ask me if I wanted to join them to the Market Reef again - there is no other possible answer than "YES!". |
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Tonight, I stayed up until about three, wich was about my common schedule (go to sleep at 03:00 - 04:30 somewhere), and at 01:10 when I was working OH6GHI/Peter, 40m was very dead, and we had a few minutes of ragchewing. Unfortunatly, the power system broke down during our QSO, and outside there was really powerful winds and rain. The winds almost knocked me to the ground. The solution was to shut down the wind generator wich was overloaded, and just run on batteries and diesel. Today, we heated up the sauna good and spent most of the evening in there. It was a great way to finish up the expedtion. Bands came to live this morning and we have been running all parts of the world on the highbands today. Even some US came thru on 40m in the morning (of course just an hour after I gave up and went to sleep), despite yesterdays high K levels. This is a truly wonderful place, both radio-wise and just about being here. Amazing! I feel quite sad that we have less than ten hours left on the reef before our transport back to Åland mainlands arrives. I'll be back with a complete writeup when I landed at home. We still have a boat trip, ferry trip and a plane to catch to Gothenburg today. |
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We went out on a 'buoy rescue' today. The buoy was moved earlier but today as the waves got larger it was in danger again. The plan was to retrieve it to the lighthouse, but as most of the eastern part of the island is flushed by waves we had to make a run in between the waves to get to the buoy. We decided to just move it into a safer location and try to ancor the chain between some rocks. On our way back we didn't manage to get thru dry, the waves flushed us good up to the knees. Now drying up, and SM0W/Teemu has started to work the SAC SSB. Less than three hours into the contest, I just heard him giving out numbers above 500! As for conditions, this night was kinda slow with much static (S9 on 40m). We worked perhaps 150 NA on SSB and 200 on CW. 80m was pretty much dead. 10m and 12m provided some good JA runs on both CW and SSB during today. The HF9V might have to be moved again during the afternoon. It's almost being flushed by the waves on the southern side. UPDATE 20:23z: More blogs from the Lighthouse Keepers http://www.majakkaseura.fi/eng/market/market_diary_2011/diary_061011/ http://www.majakkaseura.fi/eng/market/market_diary_2011/diary_071011/ http://www.majakkaseura.fi/eng/market/market_diary_2011/diary_081011/ |
| Contest | At | # | Points |
| Baltic Con.. | 19 May | (0) | 0 |
| SM - OH CW | 19 May | (0) | 0 |
| His Maj. K.. | 19 May | (0) | 0 |
| NAC 1296 | 15 May | 1 | 1.851 |
| MT SSB | 13 May | 9 | 24.078 |
| MT CW | 13 May | 9 | 9.362 |
| CQM | 12 May | 1 | 64 |
| NAC 50 | 10 May | 4 | 23.673 |
| NAC 432 | 08 May | 5 | 14.552 |
| Kvartalste.. | 05 May | 2 | 8.540 |
| Time |
DX | QRG |
| 16:07z | EH6ITU | 14018.0 |
| 16:07z | 7S6W | 14263.0 |
| 16:07z | 3B8DB | 50115.0 |
| 16:07z | GQ1VDP | 14084.2 |
| 16:07z | 7S6W | 3732.0 |
| 16:07z | LU1DXV | 7070.0 |
| 16:06z | 8S0ITU | 14189.0 |
| 16:06z | GQ4KPT | 28444.0 |
| 16:07z | 4Z1TL | 50105.0 |
| 16:07z | F8FAZ | 50098.9 |
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