At the 28th July we woke up and had plenty of time until we should be at our contest location at 15UTC. We knew that I takes at least 1hour from Lerwick to the Lighthouse. Sabine made a very strange suggestion: why should we not activate some other Shetland Islands? First I thought it might be a joke, but then we really made a tour to SH-21, SH-22 and SH-23. All these islands were connected through bridges to the Mainland. So it was again very easy to drive there by car. After about 3hours of activiation we went back to Lerwick to buy food for the contest weekend and continued our tour to the contest location.
About 3miles before we reached the contest location we passed by a building where a man was pulling up something like a portable tower. We parked at the street for about 5min and watched him going in and out pulling coax through a window. I looked at Sabine and said: No, I can’t be possible that someone else is here next to our location. I was not right. Steward GM4AFF came on Friday to our location because he saw my car. The Outbacker Perth was to big that it might have been a CB radion station so he was curios if there might be someone at the lighthouse. But there was no QRM between both station during the Contest even though we were pretty close to each other located.
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