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4x5ele on 6mtrs and single 6ele on 4 mtr Yagis..G5WQ..
Dammika,4S7DF making the first ever HF Mobile contact in Sri Lanka,
photograph was taken whilst we were travelling over to the East coast to deliver medical aid after the Tsunami.
I also have a full license for Sri Lanka 4S7MHG,thanks to 4S7DF for all his hard work.
1200 people died here at Hikkaduwa
Shortly after the Tsunami hit Sri Lanka myself (M0XAT) and John (G0MTQ)
took medical aid and ham radio equipment over,we had permission to travel over to the east coast, Our driver Wicky done a great job co-driver and radio op 4S7DF,On the way we carried out comparison tests between mobile phones and HF radio,HF radio won hands down 99% of the time there was no signal from the mobile where as HF was no problem,the photograph shows Dammika 4S7DF making the first ever HF mobile contact (operating mobile in sri lanka was not allowed, we had special permission).
We covered about 1500 miles and slept in a red cross tent on plastic chairs
Every now and then we would hear a loud bang this was to scare the wild elephants away,in the morning it was a walk accross the field to one of the stand pipes from the water purification plant for a cold wash,just up the road there were about six camps full of people that had lost thier home,over the road from our camp was a bay where a lot of people had drowned.
Further up the road in a place called Komary 99% of the houses and the large army camp had been destroyed some of the people had seen the wave comming and managed to climb up to the top of the palm trees even then the water was hitting them but they were able to hang on. Just a bit of Imfo>Our room bill + meals and drinks came to RS26,983 for 2 people,that would have fed 154 people for 1 week !
Allowance by the gov =RS375 per person per week crazy or what.
GM7TUDs Cushcraft HF2V for 40/80 mtrs
This picture is of Florence Iron Ore Mine,europes last deep working Iron ore mine,the mine was closed in 1980,It is now run privately and open to the public at certain times of the year.In its hay day we produced up to two thousand plus tons of high grade ore per week,some of the ore was produced at the Beckermet mine but the richest was from Florence I worked in the ~Ullcoats area as a fitter for 7 years until its closure (a sad day).
The picture below is of me standing on an Atlas Copco T2GH compresed air driven loader.
GM7TUD-5 element Trident for 50 mhz
Cushcraft MA5B
This Photograph was taken in the Lonley Hearts area of the mine.
Due to high pumping costs the mine is now flooded,hopefully it will
reopen soon.
Kidney ore.
photography by Roger Savage ABIPP Berrier Penrith
phtography by RogerSavage,ABIPP,Berrier,Penrith
Taj Mahal
Carbide Lamp as used in the mine later replaced by the Electric lamp
Goa
Myself and Lily @ theTaj Mahal
This is a Fire Rainbow the rarest of all natarally occuring atmospheric phenomena.This picture was taken in Idaho/Washington Border and lasted for 1 hour.
