From: dxcoffee@alt119.net.remove-xvw-this   
      
   3 May 2017   
      
   Dave GM0LVI informs DxCoffee readers:   
      
   "Barra is a tiny, windswept and beautiful little island out in the Atlantic   
   and reached by a four and a half hour ferry trip from mainland Scotland. I   
   arrived late evening so didn't get the 12m pole with a trapped 20/30m GP   
   erected until the following    
   morning. The QTH was a holiday cottage with the sea just a few metres away   
   from the base of the pole. It was also at the southern end of the beach runway   
   and under the flight path of the small planes that land there during low tide   
   so before we left home    
   I checked with the airport that my antenna would not cause a hazard.   
      
   To say propagation was poor during the five and a half days I was QRV on the   
   island would be an understatement as it was awful most of the time and 20m   
   closed completely at times. Being fairly far north during times of ionospheric   
   disturbances is not the    
   best of latitudes for playing radio. I did though find a few very brief   
   openings to the Far East and a good number into NA. One big surprise for the   
   operators at both ends of the QSO, was with KL7TH - Traci who knew Barra very   
   well having worked on the    
   island a few years ago and who had also lived on South Uist. The world of   
   amateur radio is a small one!"   
      
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   12 April 2017   
      
   Dave GM0LVI will be active from Isle of Barra, IOTA EU-010, 16 - 22 April 2017   
   as GM0LVI/P.   
      
   Operate on HF Bands.   
      
   QSL via home call.   
      
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