Last weekend we (ON4CCC, ON4CIS and Myself ON7RU) attended for the ninth time in a row in the ILLW.
ILLW stands for International Lighthouse Weekend. We're not talking about contesting here, Lighthouses are just activated and the goal
is to handout some new references. Over the years the ILLW became more and more popular. A couple of years ago we were happy with 500 QSOs,
last weekend we passed for the first time the 1K marker.
Maybe the 100 digi modes QSOs from our visitor Tommy, ON3TD made the difference.
The installation of the antennas started on Friday, on top of the LH we installed a monoband dipole for 20m, we had a G5RV for 40 and a
homebrew dipole for 80m. Conditions were that good, that Mark stayed till 2am to handout the BEL-001 reference.
I arrived Saterday afternoon to work some CW but 20 was full with UA constest stations.
Late in the evening we had great runs on 80m SSB and 80M CW, didn't knew that so many hams were up that late @ night.
Saturday night/Sunday morning I tried to get some sleep around 3am, but a 2 x 1500w flashing light didn't make things easy.
Finally I felt asleep but around 6am I woke up and after two blinks of an eye I was back at the key. I switched between 20 & 80m and put many
more in the log. Mark & Luc arrived @ 9am with the breakfast, thank guys.
We stayed there till 6pm and managed to work + 1K QSOs, but what's more important, we had a great day/night.
We enjoyed the great comments and feedback.
 
Special thanks to Mark for the loan of his outstanding ICOM 775 DSP, Luc for his backup/2M IC7000,  Tommy for the digimode QSOs and the section EKO for their support & visits.
Another word of appreciation goes To Henri Meere, the lighthouse keeper. After all these years we are welcomed guests and without his
support it wouldn’t be possible to activate the lighthouse. The lighthouse is a museum as well (free entrance) bring Henri a visit and
ask him about the "crazy radiomateurs", he can tell stories for hours...so can I, but that's for next time.
 
So long and see you on the air.