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Thursday, 18 June 2009 15:10 |
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I came up with the idea of the club foundation at the beginning of 90ties. We started our activity in May in 1995.
In the beginning it was not so easy as usually it is... The lack of the equipment was the major problem. The utility room were we had our seat was in very bad condition. We had a leaking roof, damaged windows and no electricity.We renovated this room thanks to our friends help and started to work on 2 m band using FM.
At first we used retuned old radio devices manufactured by polish company RADMOR like FM 302, 304 i FM 315. We also made a few contacts using a very big radio FM 325 we got from our friends.
In 1999 we started to work on HF. We bought the transceiver Yaesu FT-101EE with the damaged transverter for 2m band. When we repaired the TRV we started our activity using SSB on 2 m band.
In 2000 we bought the handy working on 2m i 70cm band. We decided to start our activity using SSB on 70 cm band when we finished successfully our trials with band pass filters on 70cm. Later we made the transverter 28/432 MHz. Since we failed in order of the 23-elements antenna for this band we came up with the idea of making one. In the beginning we made one, later two 12-elements antennas by SP6LB design, finally the system of 2x23 elements by DK7ZB design. Not too much space for antennas instalation and disapproving neighbours led us to the conclusion that there is a strong case for the location change.
Currently we work from the field location placed 7 kilometers from Gniezno. Open space, no TV antennas with the wideband amplifiers and no interference sources at the distance of 200m from our antenna system make perfect conditions for our construction works and long distance contacts.
This allowed us to start in contests on 2m, 70cm and 23cm band.
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