Story 13DX/ST044 Story from 13DX/ST044 activity. Hi dear radio friends Wolf came to my house at 6 o clock, then we went to the island. We needed 30 minutes and reached Zedenbach at 6,30 o clock. The lock is opened by 7 clock so we are waiting for the lock keeper. Previously we had spoken with the authority "Unstrut" we get to this weekend with access to the 2 islands in the lock area. Then it went very quickly we brought the equipment over the lock gate to the island of Z # 1 and began to build the station. We used the first time the new SKYPPER (built by Jarek 161AT080) so I had my antenna tuner at it to verify this to the SWR. But there were no problems, the antenna has a very good SWR of 27440 to 27700. When the station was fully assembled and the generator (1,4 KW) purred, we launched the first call. First in log was 35AT160 that was good conditions and the log filled up quickly, we were surpised that many stations from Germany who called us, but the frequency was clean so we could also hear calls with S1. Later, the band was so wide open the stations from Europe from North, East, South and West all with S9 (and more) to hear in the first Pile up. We operate in pile up until it was a little quieter and we stop for the first time to the lunch, we checked the band what the others do. It was very nice to hear so many activations. The temperatures went steeply upwards at the end when we closed the station we had 33 ° C in the shade. In the log were 154 entries, we dismantled the station and leave the island 03:00 utc time in the afternoon. Many thank 's to the friendly lock keeper we have the allowed our equipment in the garage of the lock area for supporting us in the friendly lock keeper us. He then informed us that the lock keeper on sunday comes an hour earlier, we could start earlier on the island of Z # 2 (ST045). Many thank's to all who calling us, see you all soon on Sunday from ST045. 73 from DXRC "wide wild east team". 13DX014 Wolf & 13DX056 Uli. return