Hi all

The plan was to operate from a high site on Gozo NFD style with homebrew antennas,in our Campervan, inspired by Peter G3LET’s visits. We travelled via Folkestone to Zurich, then down to Genoa , where the ferry inspector at first denied us access, passing through the red tape by skin of teeth; after taking the PCR test in Guildford we had 48 hours to get the boat in Genoa ! Thankfully then the overnight ferry, to Palermo in Sicily. We drove accross Sicily past Mt Etna, then took the 2 hour ferry to Valletta Malta then the last ferry to Gozo , all with the camper Van full of the station poles antennas and generator. ! So with the xyl driving too we finally met Colin 9H4CT in Gozo who had booked our site. This site was 300 feet asl with sea views and a pond nearby…hopeful! Then setup on Friday was good in sunny weather with dipoles for 40-10 and verticals for 80 40m 20 ,10 and an elevated GP for 15M., connexcting to an FTDX10 recently acquired. the contest started well, good runs to G and VE on 15m 20m and some Dx on 10m… till wx went bad at sat evening. This high spot had rain , wind, and I was in the camper awning! with the awning flapping , rain coming in , then the dipole mast came down in pieces at 3 am.

Carrying on after a break to eat, warm up, fix the awning and move the rig away from the drips, the xyl fed me cheese butties and I kept on with the verticals . 80m was OK on a vertical, and the other bands kept going. On 10m there were short openings to ZD7,5B4, VK and G, 15m to G, VK, ZL, as its a great site and I made 570 QSO s and 5000 PTS ish.

80m 34 Q

40m 147 Q

20m 202 Q

15m 171 Q

10m 6 Q

560 Q , 111 Bonus 5280 pts

I was not a big signal so there were lots of repeats thanks to all who put up with my sigs.

Thanks to Colin 9H4CT and his xyl, for greetings and coffee and getting the site permission, Peter G3LET for advice.

now on home after great trip round Sicily, Italy ,France, Swiss. Mike G3VYI