Dear Fellow Hams,

 

We recently had the opportunity to visit a beautiful place in the the north known as Kumrat. This area has not been explored properly as the terrain is very tough hence Pakhams in collaboration with IJC carried out the visit to the area to explore nature and to carry out DXpedition. Our hard luck was that owing to rain at the time of camping the HF DXpedition couldnt be done however to our amazement we were able to communicate with our fellow hams through 2 meter repeater hence fullfilling the requirement of VHF Dxpedition. The R3 repeater was covering the area almost 80% and we were able to get hooked with fellow hams in Islamabad area. We had a clear 5/5 QSO with one of the hams stationed in islamabad. Since the Mobile coverage is not available hence cashing on the opportunity we engaged islamabad hams for calling our families and passing on our well being messages. There were almost 3 Hams (ap2nas, ap2cj and myself) and almost 20 SWL's that witnessed the communication. The SWLs also learned how propagation and weather effects the communication while parked at the same place. Over all the entire team enjoyed the communication, cw beeps and echolink announcements throughout the trip.

 

 

Valley Height above sea level is from 4500 feet till 8500 feet.

Surrounded by mountains above 15000 feet

Aerial distance from Islamabad 207 km

Aeria distance from R3 100 km

Signal report. 5/3-5/9 on 3 db gain antenna (nr 770) and output 50 watts Motorolla GM 300 & Kenwood TM 271A. Frequency used was 144.850 simplex with tone 123.0

73s

AP2AUM