{"id":52709,"date":"2022-05-12T07:36:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T11:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52709"},"modified":"2022-05-12T07:37:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T11:37:23","slug":"giuseppes-ponza-island-dxpedition-with-the-icom-ic-705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/giuseppes-ponza-island-dxpedition-with-the-icom-ic-705\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuseppe’s Ponza Island DXpedition with the Icom IC-705"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Giuseppe Morl\u00e8 (IZ0GZW)<\/a>, who shares the following guest post:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Report from Ponza Island: May 6-9, 2022<\/h1>\n

by Giuseppe Morl\u00e8 (IZ0GZW)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ciao Thomas and Friends at the SWLing Post<\/em>!<\/p>\n

This is the summary of 3 days of testing of my Icom IC-705 just purchased and immediately taken to Ponza Island, my hometown, for a full immersion DXpedition only listening to amateur radio bands especially on 20 m.<\/p>\n

Day 1<\/h1>\n

I left Formia on the ship that went to Ponza and it was not a good start given the adverse sea weather conditions. After 3 hours of crossing in the rain and the strong sirocco wind, I arrived on the island at my father’s house.<\/p>\n

In the early afternoon in the rain, I hoisted a 20 meter row on the “sloper” type roof not so high from the ground and connected directly to the Icom 705 without any counterweight given the place without electrical noise.<\/p>\n

The position of my father’s house is open from West to North but totally covered to the South by a hill of 200 meters …<\/p>\n

In this video you can see all of this:<\/p>\n