Belize (formerly British Honduras)
2011 Consejo Shores, sunset, backscatter of evening sun as seen in the East
2011 Plants at the restaurant entrance Blue Marlin Lodge, South Water Caye
Korallen
spotted trunkfish
yellow tailed snapper
leon fish
turtle (Schildkröte) and dive master Carlos
nurse shark (Ammen-Hai)
under water photo by Gisela V31GW DK9GG
2011 V31YN/P 10 m antenna
2011 V31YN/p
2011 Gisela
2011 portable operation as V31YN/p from Blue Marlin Lodge South Water Caye Belize
2011 mast top
2011 additional antenna wires from the mast top to our houses
2011 our house is at the text "15:38" in Consejo Shores at Smugglers' Den
2011 Tim's house as seen from the mast top. Beverage antenna starts right of his lot, crosses his lot, and goes into the bush.
2011 Smugglers' Den restaurant building as seen from the mast top
2011 restaurant building
2011 Torsten V31TF DG7RO with antenna tuner project, before wiring.
coatimundi "quash" bear in front of our house
2010 Anreise ab München FJS mit Air Berlin
2010 Anreise Cancun ab München mit Airbus A300 330 von Air Berlin
2010 Anreise Cancun direkt über die U.S.A. St. Louis, Golf von Mexiko
map of Belize
2007 Hurricane Dean 21st Aug. 0845 UTC/0245 local time. (c) NOAA
2007 Hurricane cumulative wind history August 21st 2007
Consejo Shores
Smugglers' Den Restaurant
3 cabanas
10 m vertical antenna, in background 120 ft mast for 160 and 80 m
10 m vertical antenna
2009 Gisela V31GW in front of the vertical 10 m and 120 ft tower in the background
vertical 10 m and 120 ft tower in the background
air condition built 2009
2009 Gisela V31GW DK9GG
2009 V31YN V31GW licenses at the window
OP V31YN
STN V31YN
2009 V31YN
2009 Kenwood TL-922A power amplifier, Drake W4 wattmeter, antenna selector 160 m / 80 m coax to antenna mast
PA with Receive/Transmit-Relay Box
Antenna Tuner
2009 ICOM AT-130 professional marine automatic antenna tuner for 10 m vertical (4 elevated radials)
MFJ Analyzer
2009 V31YN new WLAN equipment on top of the 120 ft mast and guy wires, one as 80 m end fed sloping dipole
2005 160 m antenna tuner; follow yellow markers for exciter wire
36 m (120 ft) tower as seen from the sea
2005 V31YN 120 ft mast
2005 V31YN 120 ft Mast - not Gerd and Gisela, but two professionals installing WLAN antennas
120 ft mast used as quarteer wave vertical for 160 m and as a support for WLAN equipment
grey box houses antenna tuner for 80 and 40 meters test setup
guy wires used as sloping vertical antennas. Rightmost vertical half wave dipole end fed for 80 m. 2nd from right three quarter wavelength for 40 meters.
2010 Antenna tuner for 80 and 40 meters. Coiled Coax is a 200 pF condensor for 80 meters.
Unsere Badebucht in Consejo Shores
Unsere Badebucht in Consejo Shores. Im Hintergrund Chetumal (Mexiko)
Blue Marlin Lodge IOTA NA-180
Blue Marlin Lodge IOTA NA 180 South Water Caye: base of 10 m vertical
portable station at the Blue Marlin Lodge IOTA NA-180
antenna tuner for all short wave bands; two radials 10 meters, one radial 40 meters long
IOTA NA 180
Gisela checking one long elevated radial (invisible)
Iguana
Female Ieguana
2008
Hibiskus
Black Orchid (schwarze Orchidee)
V31AE Consejo Shores
Our car - in fact V31AE's second car
2002 V31YN 160 m-antenna tuner made from parts lying around at the remote location in Corozal Town
2006 2nd Place World in ARRL DX Contest
2007 1st place world in ARRL DX Contest single op 160 m
To get the ICOM 756 PRO II transceiver ready for operation on 5 MHz/60 meter we would have to remove 3 diodes 3751, 2, and 3. Still not QRV there, no time to do it.
2010 Beverage Projekt: Da müssen wir durch.
Danger! Poison wood, black juice causes severe burns
2010 Beverage Projekt: Bäume ca. 10 m hoch
3 poles set for antenna direction 40 degrees to Europe, we go 220 degrees in reverse direction
Festelegung der Richtung -- Defining working direction into the bush
Ready to go into the bush
V31YN/DJ4KW überprüft noch einmal die Richtung 220 Grad (entspricht 40 Grad nach Europa)
Gerd V31YN/DJ4KW am Beginn der Schneise in den Wald
look back to the entrance of the trail
5 Männer mit 1 Kettensäge, 4 Macheten arbeiten gegen die grüne Wand, die Richtung bestimmen Peilstäben in ihrem Rücken
Bäume im Weg müssen gefällt werden. 5 Männer mit 1 Kettensäge, 4 Macheten arbeiten gegen die grüne Wand, geführt von den Peilstäben in ihrem Rücken
Setzen der Antennendraht-Tragemasten, 8 Fuß Länge, davon 2 Fuß in der Erde; Abstand 50 Fuß (1 Fuß ungefähr 0,3 m)
Einsetzen der Antennenmasten. Arbeiter links mit Maßband
Einsetzen der Antennenmasten ins Erdreich (2 Fuß / 60 cm tief)
Antennenmasten wurden am Wegesrand gewonnen und zurechtgesägt
Antennenmast - Abstand 50 Fuß (ca. 15 m) zum nächsten Mast, dazwischen Peilstäbe zur Richtungsvorgabe
Verlegung der Antennendrähte, noch nicht gespannt
Length of antenna masts (6 ft) demonstrated by size of Gisela (V31GW/DK9GG). Smaller slim poles were used for direction finding by adjusting them in line before masts were set.
Verlegen der Antennendrähte. Die dünnen Stangen sind Peilstäbe zur Vorgabe der Richtung.
2 x 1000 ft / 300 m antenna wire used
Mast 17 von 18 mit parallel geführten Antennendrähten an Weidezaunisolatoren in 6 Fuß Höhe
Mast 18 von 18, links am Boden RG58 Antennenkabel (insgesamt 300 Meter)
RG58 Antennenkabelanschluss und kleines Erdnetz 5 x 5 Meter am Europa zugewandten Ende der Antenne. 2-Draht-Leitung, da Antenne in zwei Richtungen nutzbar angeschlossen)
far end of Beverage antenna
Terminating transformer and ground connection at far end of antenna (Symmetriertransformator und Erdung am fernen Ende der Antenne)
Switchbox at beverage feed point: left top relay to reverse beverage direction; right top dummy load; below RF/DC separator for relay supply via coax cable.
Route of 1000 ft/300 m Beverage in the bush, directed towards Germany 40 degrees. Our 3 houses are at the seaside in a row directed NNE encircled by road/footwalk.
Google Earth view of V31YN-location; antenna direction 040 degrees to Europe. Radiation/reception over salt water.
