Equipment: Transceiver: YAESU FT1000 MkV field and ICOM 706MKIIg Amp: ACOM 1000

Tower: triangular section (self construction) 14 meters of heigth. Using HyGain T2X

Antenna: Force 12 XR5 (currently in use) Optibeam OB16-3 (in the garage)and CUBEX markIII (in the garage)

Callsign used during international contest: EC1DX, EF1DKD, ED1EA, ED1DGZ

Experience in Dx-Activities:

8Q7KD-Maldive Isl. in 1997 ZD8C-Ascension Isl. in 2003 8Q7EA-Maldive Isl. in 2005 CQWW DX contest.

to come: TI9K-Cocos Isl. (Costa Rica) in 2008

Short term projects

step1: Remove FORCE 12 antenna and put in place a new CUBEX markIII 5 bands.(never had a Quad before, it will be total new experience).

step2: build a 20 meters tower of 45 cm triangular shape in 5 sections of 4 meters to set up a brand new Optibeam OB16-3. at about 40 meters separation between tower1 (CUBEX) and tower2 (Optibeam).

Everything should be finished before summer 2008.

Regards Carlos EA1IR