KONG48 - Farewell To Loran

For those familiar with our Loran site, it has been dismantled. Previously, I gathered the 70 support rods and several ground rods. Today, we walked up to retrieve the steel antenna spool, which contains 1000 meters of wire—a real behemoth! We transported it to our vehicles, a kilometer downhill, using a wheelbarrow. The photos  below were taken in the vicinity of the site.

Massive swells originating from the Barents Sea.

Kjølnes Lighthouse dwarfed by the waves

On our return journey, we paused several times to capture the diminishing storm - the wind and waves had subsided significantly, yet the sight remained impressive. Photos can never fully convey the same impact. As a "road man," I took photos from where road damage occurred precisely a year ago from a similar storm and forwarded the images to my colleagues for assessment if there were any further damages. With any luck, the scheduled repairs from last year's storm will proceed.

That's me. The KONG-HQ isn't visible, but it's located across the fjord, just to the left behind me. Photo: OJS.

White inferno. In my youth we used to fish salmon in small open boats from this bay.

So, what else is there to say? Everything seems to be working fine here. Some issues regarding the AND and Smøla HQs were also sorted out via remote control.

Since we're off very early on Monday morning, dinner was earlier than usual. So, a lamb steak is never wrong. Served with a sauce comprised of beef stock, fried mushrooms, chili, ginger, fresh juniper berries and red wine, and a stew of potatoes, carrots, seleriac and rutabaga. Flavoured with butter. With the lamb we enjoyed a Scarpa red wine from Piemonte (shame on those who don't know it's Italian). 

For dessert we had the usual chocolate pudding with custard, Grappa and Amaretto. So, all in all quite a substantial contribution from Italy this evening.

And that's it from the KONG crew! We'll be back in the second half of October. Cheers from Ole, OJS and Bjarne. Happy DX!

PS! Finally something nice to hear! 1269 ABC Radio National, Bussleton WA at 19:00 and 729 ABC Radio National, Adelaide SA at 19:20!