Thanks to Col at DX World for the image and to Bernie at the Daily DX - and to both of them for publicizing this holiday style operation that will begin in October.
I'd like to emphasize that this is a vacation, not a DXpedition. All radio ops will be a bit on the spur-of-the-moment but I will be able to pre-announce them on my blog and the POTA website a couple hours beforehand.
Dates:
- 8-13 October in Theth National Park in northern Albania. I plan to *try* to activate it but will be surrounded by mountains. NVIS?
- 13-18 October we'll be in the Tirana area and I plan to be on the air from the old Radio Tirana site 40 minutes west of the city.
- 18-30 October - southern Albania, Gjirokaster and near beaches.
Rig:
Elecraft KX2 (10 watts), 1/4-wave vertical, 10-20m, CW.
No phone, no FT8.
This combination served me well in Iceland a couple years ago with fast set-ups and plentiful DX.
The Plan:
To activate as many of the 8 parks that will be in our vicinity as possible and to operate from the grounds of the old Radio Tirana shortwave transmitter site.
I used to listen to Radio Tirana as a kid, back in the 1970's when Albania was closed to the rest of the world. The magic of radio was not lost on me, even at that young age - the magic of being able to hear news and music from a country that was shrouded in mystery.
Being able to operate from the antenna field from which those signals emanated would be, for lack of a better terms, a Long Delayed Memory-Echo for me.
And there are two radio-related sites I want to see and write about in Tirana. More about that later.
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