PX1PF 1959 Andorra

Operators: DL1KB, DJ2MN, DL9PF

Hans DL1KB, Manfred DJ2MN, Walter DL9PF set up and operated from a tent on a stark, barren, rocky mountain pass of the Pyrenees.
Some of their problems were drinking water, icy gales, storms, and a lack of antenna facilities.
The other choice would have been setting up in town, in a hole surrounded by mountains. The mountain pass was chosen.
Their receiver and transmitter both failed, storms took down their antennas, and their generator was intermittent.
Two of the ops were called home with family emergencies leaving DL9PF to handle the DXpedition by himself.

The team returns to Andorra a year later in July 1960!

DL9PF tuning the ground plane. The weather changes here at 7200' by the minute.

DL9PH in a packed Volkswagen.

This 40/80 meter ground plane was donated to the group by DJ2KS.
It was lost in a thunderstorm on the second day of the DXpedition.

Walter DL9PF and Harry DL7AH by the "damn generator" as Walter describes it.

DL7AH refueling the generator.

DL9PF trying to fix a generator that gave the group lots of problems.

QSL from the estate of SP2DX
Photos from Don Chesser W4KVX DX Magazine #81, August 4, 1959.
Last 7 photos from Don Chesser W4KVX DX Magazine #102, July 20, 1960