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The Swiss Light House Activity Group,

with the amateur radio station call sign HB9LH, is an no profit associtation with members having interest for amateur radio activities and espacialy for activities concerning light houses activations.

Activations mean that operators install and exploit Ham radio equipements near a light house (< 300m) and establish contacts with others amateur radio sations all around the world. During the contact, information like quality of receiving signal, location, operator name's are given and also the reference code of the light house from which the activation occurs.

The most part of light houses around the world are refered at the ARLHS (Amateur Radio Light House Society) and each of them receive a reference code.

This kind of activity has the following reasons to exist:

  • the possibility for other people around the world to know the local light house heritage
  • the fact to keep in mind that these heritages have to be preserved because have been used to save life and continue to do it even the navigators use new technologies. Specialy because the problem of the maintenance (also about the related costs) is increasing. The most part of the light house around the world are now equiped with remote command systems and then the light house guard function is replaced by the electronic. It means that light houses becomes no light over the seas but just shadows in the darkness.
  • to honor the memory of the people who have worked (and sometimes are died) in hard conditions to build the light houses
  • for the amateur radio operators, it's always a technical and human challenge to install and exploit ham equipements near a light house

    • To validate a contact, amateur radio operators exchange cards which are called QSL-Cards. Usually, on a QSL-Card take place one or more pictures of the light house where has occured the activity and also some technicals information. This QSL-Card is the confirmation that the contact has been really established.

    Through out our activities we hope to contribute to transmit, through our maner, a bit of the story of the light houses and also to help to preserve they.

    This web site would be a window for you on our activities, on the ham world and on the forgetted sentries of the seas.

    Thank you for visiting our website - The Swiss Light House Activity Group