ON7DQ Friedrichshafen 2025 - Day 7

I had taken my folding bike, so no car driving today ... only visiting ...

The Ham Radio fair

There is not so much to write about the fair, so I'll leave you with a few pictures.

CW keys for everyone

This was a heartwarming piece of equipment for me, I have been teaching a transmission line course for over 30 years, which includes teaching about the Smith Diagram.
Of course, you can buy a 30$ nanoVNA now, which will show the Smith Diagram as well.

In the afternoon was the SOTA meeting

Lucky that there was also the SOTA booth, where it was all about SOTA

The raflle, where some nice prizes could be won. Joe, OE5JFE is holding his hand above the 4 ON7DQ Clothespeg Paddles that I made for this edition of the raffle.

Nice to see a happy Uli, DC1UH, winning a QMX transceiver from QRP Labs

After a day at the fair, I quickly went across the street to see a Zeppelin take off, always a nice experience. Click the picture to see a short video of the Zeppelin.

And of course some good food and a beer made the day complete !

And I lied at the beginning of this post ... I did use the car to drive to a restaurant, some 10 km outside of Friedrichshafen. When returning, I got an alarming message on my display, that one of my tyres had a too low pressure. Oh boy !

But it was already getting dark, so I decided to look into that the next morning ...

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