This page is dedicated to the 6O0CW DXpedition to Somalia, February 2005.
The place of our operations was Galkayo (Puntland, Somalia).
IK1PMR / 6O0MR
 | The 6O0CW team: IK2DIA, I2YSB (front), IZ5BRW, IK1PMR, IK2WXV (back) |
 | IK1PMR, IK2WXV and I2YSB at Malpensa airport |
 | I2YSB and IK2DIA trying to check-in our strange baggage |
 | Dubai airport |
 | A view of Dubai city (United Arab Emirates) |
 | IK1PMR in Dubai |
 | Evening shopping in Dubai |
 | Gold on sale in Dubai |
 | Djibouti airport |
 | Landing in Galkayo (Somalia), just in the desert |
 | IK2DIA and IZ5BRW assembling the 4 element yagi |
 | DSC00709.JPG (312 Kb) Andrea IK1PMR and Silvano I2YSB making the first 6O0CW QSOs on 30m CW on 3 February 2005 |
 | IK2DIA, IZ5BRW, IK2WXV, IK1PMR, I2YSB and Hussein |
 | Riccardo IZ5BRW operating SSB |
 | Radio Galkayo |
 | I2YSB at our CW low bands operating position at Radio Daljir, Galkayo |
 | Our "sleeping position" next to the low bands station |
 | IZ5BRW and IK2DIA, our main SSB operators at the guesthouse station |
 | My bed and all my stuff |
 | Our beam antenna at the guesthouse station |
 | I2YSB sending logs bt email at Radio Galkayo |
 | IK1PMR at Radio Daljir, outside the shack at night, waiting for low band conditions |
 | Sagan, one of our friends at Radio Daljir, near our 40m/80m vertical |
 | The 50m tower holding our 160m dipole; a 180m long beverage was also installed across the city |
 | Our rented car in the street |
 | Our driver at the guesthouse door |
 | The street in the center of Galkayo |
 | Another street in Galkayo |
 | IZ5BRW, guesthouse owner, IK2DIA, our driver, IK2WXV, Hussein |
 | IK1PMR and our friend Hussein |
 | Beppe IK2WXV at the guesthouse operating position |
 | IK1PMR at lunch time: we usually had pasta with camel meat sause |
 | IK2DIA and IZ5BRW working on our generator |
 | IK1PMR talking on sked with friends at home |
 | Adan and IK1PMR |
 | Hussein and two other friends at lunch |
 | Lunch time the day we get our licenses |
 | The Ministry of Communications ready to give us our 6O0 licenses |
 | Silvano I2YSB receives his 6O0CW license |
 | Andrea IK1PMR receives his 6O0MR license |
 | Typical street in Galkayo city |
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 | DSC00937.JPG (320 Kb) Andrea IK1PMR / 6O0MR elmering Sahra, the Secretary General of SARFEN (the Somali amateur radio organisation) |
 | Beppe IK2WXV, Sarah the secretary general of SARFEN, Andrea IK1PMR and Riccardo IZ5BRW |
 | I2YSB at dinner with the doctor's wife |
 | The italian doctor at dinner in his house |
 | Silvano I2YSB enjoying the dinner |
 | Our guesthouse station as configured the last day of operations |
 | Joe 6O0JT visiting us at the guesthouse |
 | DSC01027.JPG (316 Kb) Andrea IK1PMR / 6O0MR, Sahra and Joe VA6JWT / 6O0JT with a flag of Somalia |
 | DSC_0501.JPG (792 Kb) A street in Galkayo city at sunset |
 | DSC_0502.JPG (724 Kb) Local students in Galkayo |
 | DSC_0667.JPG (712 Kb) Local people at the market in Galkayo |
 | DSC_0670.JPG (772 Kb) Local people in Galkayo |
 | Doctor and Andrea IK1PMR at last dinner in Galkayo |
 | Doctor visiting our guesthouse station |
 | Local woman with her children in Galkayo |
 | Silvano trying to fix an audio system at a local school |
 | Silvano, Riccardo and Marcello waiting in Djibouti airport |
More pictures to come ...