As sometimes happens we had already deviated on this tour plan. On our way down to the Ham Radio I over-estimated our capabilities and we ran short of time, so the planned activations of DL/BE-094 and DL/AL-149 were dropped from our planned schedule which you can read below in the two worksheets produced for the tour:
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I'm publishing these worksheets to give readers an appreciation of what goes into planning these SOTA Road Trips abroad. The column headings should be self explanatory. We program our car satnav with lat/long coordinates to get us to a safe and legal parking place. Our days start at around 08:30 local time when we leave the guest house and end at around 18 or 19:00 when we get back there or arrive at another place for the night. On this tour we stayed over the 11 nights in eight different places, seven German, one Czech, with an extra night for me at the start in Manchester and and extra night at the end for Victor in Prague.
As the worksheet shows - Weds 29 June - we deviated from the above plan and made better progress than we anticipated. So this is what we activated on 29 June:
DM/BM-047 Grosser Arber (10)
DM/BM-261 Wolfgangriegel (10)
DM/BM-262 Rabenholz (8)
DM/BM-295 Abendberg (8)
We wanted to make up for the two summits we missed going down to Friedrichshafen and on this day we pulled one back. The plan was restructured then day by day as went along, as DM/BM-047 was pulled forward from the 30th, and BM-368 had already been pulled from the 30th and done on the 28th. The standout summit on this day was the one where we used the Gondola up to BM-047 Grosser Arber. The cable car station is below the activation zone, but it was only a short walk to the summit. I'm afraid I only took the one photo as the weather turned nasty and it rained. Victor turned left on the top path. I turned right and found some shelter with a bench for operating under the eaves of a deserted ski-club hut:
The 40m band was unusable due to QRN - maybe it was the proximity of my link dipole to the metal roof of the building or the LNB in the satellite dish close by. I stayed on 20m and the mix of CW and SSB produced a healthy 25 QSOs.
The weather improved after we got down the hill and we made our way to a mountain alm at Frath below DM/BM-261. I don't have any photos as this was a non-descript wooded summit, but it was an enjoyable walk of 2 Km each way with 140m of ascent, chatting as we went as we do:
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| Victor DL/G4ONL/P waiting for his lunch back at the Alm in Frath after DM/BM-261 |
My lack of photos for the other two summits tells me they weren't exciting.... I think one was where we both got bitten to death by insects. So I will proceed with a write up of the next day - Thursday 30 June when we activated these four summits, after making a late decision to venture over the Czech border late afternoon that day, to activate a summit we had planned to do the following day:
On the German side I thought Hadriwa and Proller were stand out summits. I liked walking the path up to the summit of Hadriwa, after leaving a track the easy scrambly rocky path was sparse of trees and a really enjoyable climb. I didn't take any photos, but here is the route. I left Victor on the highest point and ventured a little further on to find a site with good seperation from trees:
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| Phil DL/G4OBK/P Victor DL/G4ONL/P |
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| Summit Cross DM/BM-002 |
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| Walking down from Proller DM/BM-002 |
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