I have no much to say about that day. Actually it was the second day of the 9th Aegean Contest.For someone who is not a "ham" (radioamateur) that means nothing but for a ham is like a fest. Ham teams looking for the best place to set up all their equipment (tranceivers-cables-antennas-power supplies-laptops etc).
That what the J41P team did. They set up everything at the top of the mountain Panio using the buildings of the former NATO military base as their headquarter. And they did the right choice.When i reached the top i found the team in a frenzy. 4 operators in a row with microphones on their hands talking loudly , calling CQ-CQ (seek for any radioamateur) and spelling various callsigns [every radioamateur get a callsign -something like a car license plate- and none else in the world can get the same. My callsign is SV1LHJ and it's one of a kind. Each part of the callsign has its own meaning. For instant, SV-1-LHJ. SV means Greece.Number 1 means a specific geographic part of Greece (a ham from Crete has no9 (SV9) from Macedonia no2 (SV2) etc. And the 3 letters at the end of the callsign is something like a serial number. The ham before me got the LHI and the next one got the LHK and so on.]
It was the second day of the contest and they were exhausted. I was forced to replaced a team member in order to took a nap. Ok. I made a long distance contact and the rest of the time i was screaming CQ-CQ with no reply. I was on 2 meters band in SSB with a horizontally polarized antenna. Because of the screaming my voice became totally husky, something that many women like but there weren't any around.
Anyway, my shift in front of the microphone was ended and i was enjoying the view from up there.
Then i drank a cold beer, took some pictures of the building debris around and drove back home. Then came the 'end' of a long weekend.
73 de SV1LHJ *
* 73 in radioamateur language means "bye" it's a salute. So. 73 to everyone.
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