23.06.2016 - Activation from an inactive volcano

“FIELD FLOWERS” MARATHON (11)

Date of activity: 23.06.2016
37 km round trip by bicycle to an inactive volcano Duvalo, Kosel near Ohrid.
100% green expedition.
1 location activated, valid for WWFF.

Location: Duvalo, Kosel near Ohrid
Fixed outdoor portable (P) from an inactive volcano Duvalo, Kosel some 10 km from Ohrid (10 km away from previous activation place in this area - multiplier x 2). The first activation valid for WWFF ref. Z3FF-0024.
The area has not suitable places for seating, so all operating was standing imposed on a sun, with the radio hanged on a neck and the battery on a bicycle saddle.
Duvalo is a miniature volcanic crater of 50 cm from where gaseous carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide are realized from the hole and the smell of sulfur is spread 3 km in radius (strong smell of spoiled eggs). During the Ottoman Empire it was used to mine sulfur.
It was a challange to operate from here.

RIG:
Elecraft K1 @ 5 W
12V - 1,3 Ah battery
Bulldog mini paddle
14 MHz wire vertical with 4 ground radials
4.5 m fishing rod
Total weight +/- 2 ,5kg

A total of 20 CW QSOs on 14 Mc (45 with dupes)

Vlado, Z35M/p
Z3 Portable Group # 001

This activation was from the most unusual location from the inactive volcano.