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U3S in Alberta and BC during holiday trip



During our voyage from Calgary to Vancouver  i had an U3S 200mW  and short wire antenna  on at some locations.
50 spots where the results   6m and 10m no spots.  using a magnet foot short VHF antenna.
With 6m wire extended I was spotted at 7 and 10 MHz  as the table down.
We traveled from Calgary to  Ucluelet Vancouver island  in 16 days.
                                                      Fraser river canyon




 Rocky Mountaines
                                                    downtown Vancouver

  Our impression fantastic scenery landscape . Beautiful national parks.
Friendly open people.  Polite and relaxed trafic. Clean public room no graffiti or vandalism.
Open public toilets  very clean and heated. That would be impossible in our country full of vandals and rude trafic behavior.
We felt save in Canada .

                                           foto:  Ben Leewenburgh  erg bedankt

very good Visible Aurora through the plane window13 Oktober
                                     flying over NWT  and Greenland.   my Huawei P10 could not catch it


 radio spots with 100-200mW

TimestampCallMHzSNRDriftGridPwrReporterRGridkmaz
 2017-10-12 01:04  VE7/PA0O  10.140151  -27  0  CN78fw  0.1  KD6EKQ  DM12ju  1918  156 
 2017-10-13 08:28  VE7/PA0O  7.040112  -19  0  CN89kh  0.1  N3IZN  DM13ji  1841  162 
 2017-10-13 00:28  VE7/PA0O  7.040113  -23  0  CN89kh  0.1  AA0DW  DN70  1723  118 
 2017-10-12 15:46  VE7/PA0O  10.140146  -16  0  CN78fw  0.1  K6SJC  CM97iw  1270  163 
 2017-10-13 02:08  VE7/PA0O  7.040113  -15  0  CN89kh  0.1  KE8FT  CM98dn  1201  174 
 2017-10-13 02:08  VE7/PA0O  7.040112  -16  0  CN89kh  0.1  KP4MD  CM98iq  1190  172 
 2017-10-11 23:48  VE7/PA0O  7.040116  -10  0  CN78fw  0.1  VE6JY  DO33or  1031  54 
 2017-10-13 13:48  VE7/PA0O  7.040113  -22  0  CN89kh  0.1  W0AY  DN26xo  740  111 
 2017-10-13 12:48  VE7/PA0O  7.040114  -17  0  CN89kh  0.1  W7OWO  CN85lh  445  179 
 2017-10-13 14:28  VE7/PA0O  7.040114  -26  0  CN89kh  0.1  VE7BPB  CN89lg  8  127

SK   I am shocked  and sad to hear that Johan PF7M  became SK 
one of our best DX'rs is no more!


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