Hey, I'm back!
I wasn't expecting much from a battery operated 1 Watt/14 MHz rig and a dipole into the trees, but I made a total of 8 QSO's on Corsica. Most of the QSO's were made after calling CQ, contacts were made with G, PA, UR, DL, F and ON. My finest contact was on september 5th, after a long CQ I was knocked of my chair when JH1GEX came back to me with a very loud signal... 1kW into a six-element beam, ah well... My report was 419.
I could not operate during evening hours, which was a pitty. Selectivity of my rig was really bad and I suffered from AM broadcast stations, mostly from arabic countries. During daylight the 20 meter band was really quit, propagation would only pick up at the end of the day when I could hear several QRP stations around 14.060 MHz.
So, there is a lot to improve on the rig and the other equipment, which I plan to take on my future holiday trips. It was great fun!
