SARL QRP contest 16th July 2011

Another beautiful day down here in the Western Cape, a perfect opportunity to set up a field station on the beach.

I decided to use my RACAL PRM4051 rig with NVIS horizontal dipole and a long wire kite antenna.













Here the station with the horizontal antenna set up at about 2.1m high and just on last night's high tide level.

Drama, drama, drama ! Don't try a kite antenna in dry air "berg wind" weather conditions without a static discharge system ! The long wire antenna was disconnected very quickly after a couple of hefty shocks !

The kite shackled to the rig, I had to drop the long wire because of the static build-up .