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The designer of the Arctic King, Villi, TF3DX arrived to inspect and salute the King on Thursday along with his brother Gunnar.
In between measurements, we rummaged in my “junkbox” (several outbuildings) for High Voltage RF Capacitors and adjustable Inductors which will crown the King at a later date when 80m capability will be added.
Villi operated TF4X casually in the Oceania DX Contest – CW and in between consuming good food and wine, we also watched the stars and the Aurora and a historical First Ever QSO was made in this contest with KH6ZM in Hawaii on 160 meters.
Finnbjörn of Litlaeyri and Ása Dóra performing the Kalos Sthenos followed by a swim in the arctic sea.
I have completed maintenance on the Arctic King in preparation for winter. I replaced the support wires for the top-load wires of the antenna with Dyneema rope. This rope has a breaking strength of around 5 tonnes but I ran into some problems because of its elongation under load.
The tension on the top load wires is around 200kg (440lbs) and it was quite a formidable job to accomplish.
The photos were taken last night and it is quite tricky to photograph the full moon in the dark.
Finnbjörn of Litlaeyri conquered the 1.5 Pood (24kg) kettlebell today.
My brother, Gisli did the one Pood (16kg) kettlebell easily on his first attempt.
Kalos Stenos means “Beautiful Strength”
Today was a really HOT day – 17°C, so we decided we needed to cool off after the training session.
5 sets of 40 swings with 12 and 16 kg kettlebells.
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Today we used the 16kg kettlebell for 4 sets of Kalos Stenos, with some Joint Mobility exercises performed before and after.
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Today´s training session consisted of 5 sets of 30 repetitions of Swings. The kettlebells are from left to right – 24, 16 and 12kg.
We warmed up with a quick session of Joint Mobility exercises.
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