Waching daily Nov 29 2017

Today is 26th November 2017

and this weekend we are guests of Radio Amateur Union of Spain

and their section in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)

This facility is their local radio club

We are in suburb of Las Palmas

And, I want to show you how it all looks like...

As you can see, they have a lot of antennas

Four towers with mostly HF antennas

for working on HF (of course)

This area is a parking lot

As you can see there is a barbacue

Let's see what is inside...

Right on the entrance there are...

...several old radio stations...

...and just one of many awards...

...won from this station.

This is probably one of the most valuable one

WPX CW Contest 2010

This is congressional hall

I thing this is used as sleeping room when there is need for hosting much more people

Small saloon for resting, playing chess or if someone likes to read...

Now let's go upstairs

Where main thing happens

Let's go here first

Reception and QSL buerau

Radio amateurs from Gran Canaria can leave their QSL cards here to be sent out

And here are sorted QSL cards that are *received*

As you can see, there is a lot of radio amateurs in Las Palmas *and* Gran Canaria

Let's go here first...

ESCUELA - which means SCHOOL

They are learning CW / Telegraphy here

few radio stations

few different keyers

whiteboard

More certificates and awards

Few more old radio stations Facility is really full of those

Here is another small meeting room

Here next is so called MESS ROOM

as you can see it is a bit "in mess" :)

They have here several small radios for working on VHF

There is a office of station manager

And now one of interesting parts...

Duplexer for digital (VHF) repeater...

...which is off at the moment. As we are told they use it only two months a year

because there is not much interest in using it

And here we have their APRS link

which is much more active

Now let's go to the main part

There is a CW of course (WC)

Here is Mr.Spider (Nikola Mitić)

- Wave for the folks - Wave for the folks !

- To whom? Wh...is...$#!@?

- We are LIVE on RTS (Serbian broadcaster)

- I'm recording man, for Facebook...

Here we are again outside of the facility

And again, one more look at many antennas and cables around us...

That's it for now. A lot of greetings from Las Palmas by Montenegro folks...73