tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39326646858958197772024-03-18T09:48:09.228+00:00CatterblogPhil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.comBlogger311125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-83763209975800213512023-06-21T23:59:00.004+01:002023-07-22T10:39:05.971+01:00GJ/JE-001 Les Platons (Jersey)<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After five nights in Guernsey, including a day on Sark, when I activated Le Moulin GU/GU-001, we were on the move to Jersey for another four nights in a hotel on the western side of the island. I drove my Ford Kuga on to the Condor Liberation - the same vessel we used to travel from Poole to Guernsey. Liberation is a powerful trimaran and can carry up to 245 cars and 880 passengers. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI_zWy0O-lCnXC-tUr1ZOBhPIovpCN2gD4p4weEto5KMTt9oDSxlzMzEsqgrPW4O-CqdQ5LVLbPbvf4Ft_RrT9ksE4gUVNMmrKyIIy7-drborhH9GpbJfeDj0lhiDX61NSnb9vzqLpZ0b2atAhMGsviIBkn16GSB0YuoAA9WZL6xx1PFgMWH0gUrSSDHV4/s683/ScreenHunter%20293.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="683" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI_zWy0O-lCnXC-tUr1ZOBhPIovpCN2gD4p4weEto5KMTt9oDSxlzMzEsqgrPW4O-CqdQ5LVLbPbvf4Ft_RrT9ksE4gUVNMmrKyIIy7-drborhH9GpbJfeDj0lhiDX61NSnb9vzqLpZ0b2atAhMGsviIBkn16GSB0YuoAA9WZL6xx1PFgMWH0gUrSSDHV4/w640-h392/ScreenHunter%20293.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Liberation - photo by Condor Ferries</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The journey from St. Peter Port to St. Helier takes one hour. As we were not permitted to take our hotel room until late afternoon, arrival day presented me with a good opportunity to activate GJ/JE-001 Les Platons (143m ASL), which is located near St. John, on the northern coast of the island. </span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">We found Jersey to be more commercialised and "touristy" than Guernsey - less rural with wider roads. The island is around 9 miles across and 5 miles wide. We found a local cafe in St. John's for lunch and then made our way to Les Platons GJ/JE-001, which is a drive on summit if you want it to be. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I turned off the Rue de Platons into a small parking bay at N 49.246 W 2.103, and carried my picnic table and chair about 75m up the road where I set up my station on the grass verge surrounded by bracken:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNP8WggtFJWRkbKiB6bKK8eBKcv8FuGR1MNCQA8gj7DQ1zDvRGI5ZUZflGgaPxT-6QAUGwTb1jsn8ahuzXdtIEudD3BggrXzzkuuoTZZwbdK_DSBysqxsaUlvD4aVpT7FwE-Rfau8_kjUO0sFEpgoiDqahgJfJh3VyRDGC1D7sUjC_5ff9AnfD5z91mAlF/s3840/JE-001%20Operation-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNP8WggtFJWRkbKiB6bKK8eBKcv8FuGR1MNCQA8gj7DQ1zDvRGI5ZUZflGgaPxT-6QAUGwTb1jsn8ahuzXdtIEudD3BggrXzzkuuoTZZwbdK_DSBysqxsaUlvD4aVpT7FwE-Rfau8_kjUO0sFEpgoiDqahgJfJh3VyRDGC1D7sUjC_5ff9AnfD5z91mAlF/w640-h480/JE-001%20Operation-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTYuXNtpA-QqnFiBQBVDIk7tF1DLXZMg2vpjOJa0VylVCX5AxWXV8gkPh07rmTNNtKmKmTFXKQrGE-BCPWImFbmox7QsKYIXLyMih1wX__qMbaXuRNUHKdfJ4kEzutRqAFD4gZnSLmyZUu0I_2aTnt2jtsps851--QwS0x15KZjpK1L2jL_IdYj13xEEoB/s3256/JE-001%20Operation-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2733" data-original-width="3256" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTYuXNtpA-QqnFiBQBVDIk7tF1DLXZMg2vpjOJa0VylVCX5AxWXV8gkPh07rmTNNtKmKmTFXKQrGE-BCPWImFbmox7QsKYIXLyMih1wX__qMbaXuRNUHKdfJ4kEzutRqAFD4gZnSLmyZUu0I_2aTnt2jtsps851--QwS0x15KZjpK1L2jL_IdYj13xEEoB/w640-h538/JE-001%20Operation-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">HF Conditions were very poor on 21/06/23, even 40m CW only produced ten CW contacts before my CQ calls produced a blank. Moves to SSB, then 30m and 20m accrued me 37 contacts in 50 minutes at which point I packed up the station and we made out way to our hotel. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2EhB5w2woZAIA9t-StXFvUhV4Kg7Urs_NwWAyTEg7TVb3LKDOc50b-rfCZmZWPwCcDfH5YwaNTaolGoYNwHuqOqd5AVkT3-TIhHnIyMvZ1tASdPrGiAbU7I2c_TFpDWRjdjSsbOXDUdKYoNVFTcR315fuv4kYw_LXGEzpVbbwLtt_Lf-qKXnWZTh_NaPX/s3840/JE-001%20Operation-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2EhB5w2woZAIA9t-StXFvUhV4Kg7Urs_NwWAyTEg7TVb3LKDOc50b-rfCZmZWPwCcDfH5YwaNTaolGoYNwHuqOqd5AVkT3-TIhHnIyMvZ1tASdPrGiAbU7I2c_TFpDWRjdjSsbOXDUdKYoNVFTcR315fuv4kYw_LXGEzpVbbwLtt_Lf-qKXnWZTh_NaPX/w640-h480/JE-001%20Operation-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trying to keep the KX3 cool shielding it from the sun with my bag</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipakStMLrFeVSwyHYcfEUqr58gF4FFC8QNA_eGnkMoaBA9Ezt4yVPQcYHmB9NEUSGJImwX_LCwyH_uXdGDXl555PKYYx-taNAuy0_BDVuFjYE6-VhFikyYiZH4vmt7JUZ-aTvjYGBbXI90Zd4jc1YVgXzMB5VO6GUnHwTIMTqWe5lBfKqC1WfSu8dbG4Ro/s790/ScreenHunter%20292.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="790" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipakStMLrFeVSwyHYcfEUqr58gF4FFC8QNA_eGnkMoaBA9Ezt4yVPQcYHmB9NEUSGJImwX_LCwyH_uXdGDXl555PKYYx-taNAuy0_BDVuFjYE6-VhFikyYiZH4vmt7JUZ-aTvjYGBbXI90Zd4jc1YVgXzMB5VO6GUnHwTIMTqWe5lBfKqC1WfSu8dbG4Ro/w640-h534/ScreenHunter%20292.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">DX? No - only contacts with Europe were possible in my 50 minute session - and no S2S either<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We spent the rest of time in Jersey doing touristy stuff - the radio never came out of the rucksack again...</span></div></div></div></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-21174957419264208092023-06-19T23:59:00.003+01:002023-07-20T21:53:09.615+01:00GU/GU-001 Le Moulin (Sark)<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Part way through our holiday on Guernsey and before we moved to Jersey, we took the day boat from St Peter Port to Sark. The service, run by the Sark Shipping Company, leaves Guernsey at 10:15am and returns from Sark at 4.00pm. It was an interesting day out. There was time to walk to the summit for an activation, visit Le Signeurie House and Gardens and grab a late lunch before returning for the boat. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Leaving the small harbour on foot with the other tourists, you pass through a tunnel before ascending on a footpath in trees up Harbour Hill onto the very large activation zone:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8EdnIiz-4PY97UhTe5OXvg4LowfAyZ-IYtoUMb3yD3rtVtCULRZ2ohrS3q3xJcefBWqNUm0FP1bc56O4bcJ8-DaRYDu8sJCdK3UrRQ3YnNtnpmv2dJOwRlBEhnTstBVjDVNCabRc5o9sR0z7EZoyrKcaZ7LXaZkz8mS7DrwWxKrIDkfkIA5TzCKmXdDDx/s3840/Leaving%20Sark%20Harbour%20via%20Tunnel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8EdnIiz-4PY97UhTe5OXvg4LowfAyZ-IYtoUMb3yD3rtVtCULRZ2ohrS3q3xJcefBWqNUm0FP1bc56O4bcJ8-DaRYDu8sJCdK3UrRQ3YnNtnpmv2dJOwRlBEhnTstBVjDVNCabRc5o9sR0z7EZoyrKcaZ7LXaZkz8mS7DrwWxKrIDkfkIA5TzCKmXdDDx/w640-h480/Leaving%20Sark%20Harbour%20via%20Tunnel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This map of Sark shows the route to the summit in blue and the activation zone in black. As you can see, most of the island, including several self catering cottages, B&Bs, a pub and hotels are within the activation zone:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3lMWHydcFWDU8NItaCG5AU4d-dICqkJD-giS7axb6Cmt_-ts-AQqEvxpygP2t06kNFdPvrfuE2R-JM5picsOD8RpUkSonyPEB3Z4pC_u369ZoGtp3PFMD03CN3tXIc-OuDj_PSVNnhgbFlNuMQbJ_58OzBhizwD2xyDkztvhRw4yqQ1hiAe_wul2O-2lL/s824/ScreenHunter%20290.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="755" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3lMWHydcFWDU8NItaCG5AU4d-dICqkJD-giS7axb6Cmt_-ts-AQqEvxpygP2t06kNFdPvrfuE2R-JM5picsOD8RpUkSonyPEB3Z4pC_u369ZoGtp3PFMD03CN3tXIc-OuDj_PSVNnhgbFlNuMQbJ_58OzBhizwD2xyDkztvhRw4yqQ1hiAe_wul2O-2lL/w586-h640/ScreenHunter%20290.jpg" width="586" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Most of the tourists arriving on the day-boat, travel on the tractor trailer transport that trundle along the (mostly) unmetalled roads around the island. We opted to walk to the summit of GU-001 (Le Moulin) which took us 50 minutes. Le Moulin translates in English to The Windmill, and the first thing I noticed when we saw it, was that there was an end fed wire terminating on the windmill itself! The QTH of Victoria Stamps, GU0BEZ, is right on the summit. If you look at Victoria's <a href="https://www.qrz.com/db/GU0BEZ" target="_blank"><i><b>QRZ page,</b></i></a> there is a good picture of the windmill and the wire from her OCFD Windom terminating at the upper window on the mill. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1s62z5_leR5q05JxXkr_ArtuK64qa8CBgOgblg3BKsse4eaPNsgR2QW5fRyvofNOQb0bAiEMJIRkFGFIr2isBG5S5scDQ-BqApmbeNT8WDVXAbt9DSIkn7c5-1nc9oemFceUVKKgytBbiFQPzSFwTZPHTFZ5_ufmqkRevxOUSEuaaT6iPSuMz9kZ4WJrn/s3840/Judy%20at%20Le%20Moulin%20Sark%20(GU-001).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1s62z5_leR5q05JxXkr_ArtuK64qa8CBgOgblg3BKsse4eaPNsgR2QW5fRyvofNOQb0bAiEMJIRkFGFIr2isBG5S5scDQ-BqApmbeNT8WDVXAbt9DSIkn7c5-1nc9oemFceUVKKgytBbiFQPzSFwTZPHTFZ5_ufmqkRevxOUSEuaaT6iPSuMz9kZ4WJrn/w640-h480/Judy%20at%20Le%20Moulin%20Sark%20(GU-001).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Judy - G(U)4OBK XYL on Le Moulin - GU0BEZ QTH behind<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Just to the side and behind the windmill, was an overgrown vineyard. The fence protecting the vines was used to support my 5m fishing pole and inverted vee. </div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh29SgStWvirOWAcTGSP6PBYOKZreJ3esAWcLs67ZuwhFqPBI5QcV3izBEtxEzj3UQ019IQSaNaikVXoREJPTWWbjwnPMg5DKq6lc7V3iBFL806rfq6LDTqza6ur1eyFUQyWZyEashQk5nosHDIJni6CLSh0Sv8DnMk_kpZIIDrqRtkCUZ7nMtgEBBpZ-Xj/s3840/GU-001%20activation-2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh29SgStWvirOWAcTGSP6PBYOKZreJ3esAWcLs67ZuwhFqPBI5QcV3izBEtxEzj3UQ019IQSaNaikVXoREJPTWWbjwnPMg5DKq6lc7V3iBFL806rfq6LDTqza6ur1eyFUQyWZyEashQk5nosHDIJni6CLSh0Sv8DnMk_kpZIIDrqRtkCUZ7nMtgEBBpZ-Xj/w640-h480/GU-001%20activation-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Working an average of one QSO a minute on 20, 30 and 40 metres using CW/SSB, I worked 55 stations before my allotted time ran out. This was surprisingly, a "run of the mill" QSO rate for me - considering I was operating from a relatively rare DXCC Country, I would have expected to work more stations than I did. All contacts were with stations in Europe and included six S2S QSOs. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We made our way across the island to the gardens we wanted to see, passing the Sark Constable's Office, where I noticed this sign detailing the cost of various licences available on Sark which proved interesting - for example Bicycle Licences - £14 a year! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw_-LecJPbn7H5ORvI4KycTjvVzoJ3gcosmlJ4yUv8P0CxIntrgipgPp5G_3o-OZflLOM4ZnOrXGkuJhLuCDYmWWC5bPoolYkKFeovlQQ902eWqdu3C_UzrbCwDC9WeWTyPQkEn5tXFu0Lq3N6ugb1Onr4bR2oCxxmSgwlRAybCXxGBDbul3urrBkYRm1J/s3840/Licence%20costs%20on%20Sark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw_-LecJPbn7H5ORvI4KycTjvVzoJ3gcosmlJ4yUv8P0CxIntrgipgPp5G_3o-OZflLOM4ZnOrXGkuJhLuCDYmWWC5bPoolYkKFeovlQQ902eWqdu3C_UzrbCwDC9WeWTyPQkEn5tXFu0Lq3N6ugb1Onr4bR2oCxxmSgwlRAybCXxGBDbul3urrBkYRm1J/w480-h640/Licence%20costs%20on%20Sark.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After visiting the Seigneur's gardens we finished off with some lunch outside, in the garden of a very nice cafe, before heading back down Harbour Hill with an ice cream in time for the boat back to Guernsey at 4.00pm, passing this small quarry on the way:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOj5dfOGZ0jIKAD2dtT5BfZ7IP5fWqEdqpflgkUNxXZkG253ZDPg9ijBPDcY7Nu2FqC4pEZMP9nrq_KF2hM37zfOe4wfcan4yMbLwghSd32nQrYiXvKKUBYDVZGmuQJpMwKxLXDPY3kCFkDJ-YEumMee5ZRC9SaFb7U0r0VfYO3m95G6oqR_r8YXm79bB8/s3840/Small%20quarry%20on%20Sark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOj5dfOGZ0jIKAD2dtT5BfZ7IP5fWqEdqpflgkUNxXZkG253ZDPg9ijBPDcY7Nu2FqC4pEZMP9nrq_KF2hM37zfOe4wfcan4yMbLwghSd32nQrYiXvKKUBYDVZGmuQJpMwKxLXDPY3kCFkDJ-YEumMee5ZRC9SaFb7U0r0VfYO3m95G6oqR_r8YXm79bB8/w640-h480/Small%20quarry%20on%20Sark.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Our boat, the Sark Venture, arrived soon after we reached the harbour, the journey back to Guernsey taking around 50 minutes...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioptIpBfFvJ83-_Mt71NzLB6M78vM7D1hPMCyQwleFhZtjbjq_yw-i2--arYagnpFhN4iTNFYIucrolfwB3gdy_gqb0QtO_SC5MgqxhSqo673QdcP2Q02lc0PDeTWfPAnJjuPn4_N5HgolEINa6bmm2U-1Tei4s_IBFWEfUvk6tAQc8CyPyz7yM39gtz5x/s3226/Sark%20Venture%20-%20boat%20for%20journey%20back%20to%20Guernsey.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2420" data-original-width="3226" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioptIpBfFvJ83-_Mt71NzLB6M78vM7D1hPMCyQwleFhZtjbjq_yw-i2--arYagnpFhN4iTNFYIucrolfwB3gdy_gqb0QtO_SC5MgqxhSqo673QdcP2Q02lc0PDeTWfPAnJjuPn4_N5HgolEINa6bmm2U-1Tei4s_IBFWEfUvk6tAQc8CyPyz7yM39gtz5x/w640-h480/Sark%20Venture%20-%20boat%20for%20journey%20back%20to%20Guernsey.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We both want to return to Sark and stay for longer next time. It truly is a unique place.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-41566503642580808172023-06-17T23:59:00.001+01:002023-07-02T10:46:55.108+01:00GU/GU-002 Guernsey Airport GU4OBK/P<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My first visit to the Channel Islands of Guernsey, Sark and Jersey was for a holiday with my XYL Judy in June 2023. We drove the 315 miles to Poole in Dorset and after an overnight stay in a Premier Inn there, travelled over to Guernsey by boat, a three hour journey on Condor Ferries. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">This trip was a holiday, with three activations planned. Guernsey Island is 9 miles long and 3 miles wide, small than Jersey and not as commercialised. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiekeF99OD0YirsWhaliYPrjHPVwFOpn39Y7FdTddLlqJAnZp5HGIsPAJOZuGDuOEScJvN9ZVJSiSz_vNSRfBA73nCgIVxBjMpbtm-wSIJdNs5RMx2sTnGowpw4BZHzyDUmFyP8OZgnwJesNnyn7v5xExqyXBjGz7Jv3VCPvEFpcwKtHT6d5QluKPniJ6tX/s3840/On%20Board%20Condor%20Liberation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiekeF99OD0YirsWhaliYPrjHPVwFOpn39Y7FdTddLlqJAnZp5HGIsPAJOZuGDuOEScJvN9ZVJSiSz_vNSRfBA73nCgIVxBjMpbtm-wSIJdNs5RMx2sTnGowpw4BZHzyDUmFyP8OZgnwJesNnyn7v5xExqyXBjGz7Jv3VCPvEFpcwKtHT6d5QluKPniJ6tX/w640-h480/On%20Board%20Condor%20Liberation.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On board Liberation - the faster of the boats used to get from England and France to the Channel Islands</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The next day after arriving, there was time for an activation of Guernsey Airport GU/GU-002. This is a drive on summit. My activation took place around 400m from the airport perimeter fence at the side of a field on Rue de l'eglise at 49.429N 2.595W (Point 1 on map below). The nearby German Occupation WW II Museum closes at 1.00pm each day, so in an afternoon the place is deserted and is fine for parking. The museum itself is also within the activation zone. I would recommend a visit to the museum, if only to view the vast array of German communication equipment on display there. We spent a few hours there on another day:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSa7jJLCM3AFA-DF1YaKjaWIaGvSnpEYOS2pSjLAMFByDJnZbFtNbaPt0OJwvH-BpBSFt-sHTBfR9xGS0_rqhhIUkLdT209rs_7jm73etlHEaf9jguB3MvXuOXFlWm6_ijvmaRSSwjd_2QvXVETmgIJTymIpaKtP1xu5LE6HYpUubnzb_cPk6UrqSe5SDc/s3840/German%20WW2%20Comms%20gear-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSa7jJLCM3AFA-DF1YaKjaWIaGvSnpEYOS2pSjLAMFByDJnZbFtNbaPt0OJwvH-BpBSFt-sHTBfR9xGS0_rqhhIUkLdT209rs_7jm73etlHEaf9jguB3MvXuOXFlWm6_ijvmaRSSwjd_2QvXVETmgIJTymIpaKtP1xu5LE6HYpUubnzb_cPk6UrqSe5SDc/w480-h640/German%20WW2%20Comms%20gear-4.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh80yEfO-Tz4nLhLbJkULBmeG0T8vOPe1d3QUSKDlhOaXVOzpXG1D0SBMw85CtffYCFGmGsIaGgq6KzEko29yB_IhSk4DNi6iI1JWjOSzpF9onEiPxTAPygOTIBRw6pGejrCooeILHDF6FWB0-JWKnE4qihYpscakSCWFT943xPBZ65iRB-IctAK_Z6awpp/s3840/German%20WW2%20Comms%20gear-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh80yEfO-Tz4nLhLbJkULBmeG0T8vOPe1d3QUSKDlhOaXVOzpXG1D0SBMw85CtffYCFGmGsIaGgq6KzEko29yB_IhSk4DNi6iI1JWjOSzpF9onEiPxTAPygOTIBRw6pGejrCooeILHDF6FWB0-JWKnE4qihYpscakSCWFT943xPBZ65iRB-IctAK_Z6awpp/w640-h480/German%20WW2%20Comms%20gear-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I have to thank Mike GU4EON for surveying the summit prior to me arriving on Guernsey and finding a suitable place for my activation. Mike is the owner of Guernsey car registration 5973 - a number he chose when he got his driving licence several decades ago. In Guernsey the car registrations are numbers only. </span></div></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEginZMgIi3zys7UN8fgbDMLgujOxwDFmcY_7Hw9CFe6Xu_x-QNxeU62t_Y5MVGSWERuS9ChuKEyfENmdNeNg9eMqbx0LcuN7-nn1tN7j76ZACuqWkelQeD42Xex96XJroS4IIAa0-rhQtTXS2v0JLYKnNG3aGtYjugc26Rvg5rV2l9eJ2UFEuruLKMXkO_3/s512/ScreenHunter%20274.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="512" height="602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEginZMgIi3zys7UN8fgbDMLgujOxwDFmcY_7Hw9CFe6Xu_x-QNxeU62t_Y5MVGSWERuS9ChuKEyfENmdNeNg9eMqbx0LcuN7-nn1tN7j76ZACuqWkelQeD42Xex96XJroS4IIAa0-rhQtTXS2v0JLYKnNG3aGtYjugc26Rvg5rV2l9eJ2UFEuruLKMXkO_3/w640-h602/ScreenHunter%20274.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Point 1 is where I set up my station - 400m from the airport car park</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After receiving no callers on 2m FM using my handheld and whip, I started up at 1245z on 40m SSB and worked a couple of S2S stations - HB9/DL6GCA/P Armin (HB/NW-017) and 2E0BIA/P Martin (G/SP-004). After a handful of contacts I went temporarily QRT as Mike GU4EON joined me, bringing with him a piece of amateur radio equipment, and we did a deal on the summit - was this the first time on a summit that money had changed hands for a piece of radio equipment I wondered?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I had placed an advert on a website wanting to buy a secondhand microKEYER, a now obsolete accessory that utilises the K1EL systems WinKeyer. Mike GU4EON happened to have one that was not being used and by chance the holiday in Guernsey gave me an chance to collect the unit while I was there, right in the middle of my activation! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz-eAD93SZjYGdawZ1z_9ZdXRB2npXxsN0G1s-MpMrNDGPoH89AaYtgCTLc6-3DU5hQCwma0iVUJ0zbiNQt5EeZwc4gKlmry-0GiJ3rX4B4ZLZarlAeln9zL08XuZQ1yKWSKmdpCDBu-HI0QqdEpLD0Ve_n2IBuFxxLN-448rDIZyy8el1nPmL7hVxSd9C/s3840/microHAM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz-eAD93SZjYGdawZ1z_9ZdXRB2npXxsN0G1s-MpMrNDGPoH89AaYtgCTLc6-3DU5hQCwma0iVUJ0zbiNQt5EeZwc4gKlmry-0GiJ3rX4B4ZLZarlAeln9zL08XuZQ1yKWSKmdpCDBu-HI0QqdEpLD0Ve_n2IBuFxxLN-448rDIZyy8el1nPmL7hVxSd9C/w640-h480/microHAM.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The microKEYER I bought from GU4EON on GU/GU-002 now in use at G4OBK</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZXZqr9poFSX1EVYFrkejVsOhjdCfM74dk4uiGC6suPJqXS-MesumQYjxoogZiKbMP1vD_j5R7gdptZRchC9eXtBEYIyx4c9xhMbFNOFVIjmrsxNuCtid8VKi3L7WhOfJVbzLeil8AwtDm4MiL1dLJHYicuyqnyhCJCRGNzeMwAd6VZdoLeuWhcfB0gUuc/s3840/GU-002%20Operating%20site.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZXZqr9poFSX1EVYFrkejVsOhjdCfM74dk4uiGC6suPJqXS-MesumQYjxoogZiKbMP1vD_j5R7gdptZRchC9eXtBEYIyx4c9xhMbFNOFVIjmrsxNuCtid8VKi3L7WhOfJVbzLeil8AwtDm4MiL1dLJHYicuyqnyhCJCRGNzeMwAd6VZdoLeuWhcfB0gUuc/w640-h480/GU-002%20Operating%20site.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Operation position - Rue de l'eglise is the other side of the hedge</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAejcwKmUnrDeEx1VpNtU_9FMDWTaLs3xpZ0Ez_Qu49VQaRpB89LbmcprM33DThbEPKPGo65JHAJViV-T3mGArtUyejRzaANLzNjMGY9-OO55EJGedo1nXX84MHPcZeIOZ5SzamRkN873n884T_p4FPan-zLNlNmzLkW9J-qvMof5ZDcazZyuGr8A2mQiw/s3840/GU-002%20Operation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAejcwKmUnrDeEx1VpNtU_9FMDWTaLs3xpZ0Ez_Qu49VQaRpB89LbmcprM33DThbEPKPGo65JHAJViV-T3mGArtUyejRzaANLzNjMGY9-OO55EJGedo1nXX84MHPcZeIOZ5SzamRkN873n884T_p4FPan-zLNlNmzLkW9J-qvMof5ZDcazZyuGr8A2mQiw/w640-h480/GU-002%20Operation.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My usual station - KX3, link inverted vee dipole 5m AGL</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Having said goodbye to Mike the activation continued after an hiatus of 20 minutes. After around an hours operating time I went QRT having completed 52 contacts all within Europe. It had been well worth carrying the picnic table and two folding chairs into the field - a comfortable activation with my XYL sat reading her book some 50m away from me, using a golf umbrella as a shelter from the sun. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mike told me that the actual summit, a few metres higher than were I operated from, was a man-made mound of earth adjacent to the airport car park, so after the activation and before we went to look at a WW II German Observation Tower to the west side of the island, I went over to the airport to photograph the highest point of GU/GU-002:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNHRKEgRWby62iZKDK1ojyxm76zT7hvDZm4ZKEkTc4HLqjz8VcXwe25eGuiYOoxlX1Ce6qet3NKwIQGlytQoGISqjLZjFMj6g64XUyp_yycBe4y99KtynSCPZ8BfIFd2afLzB5376L_qPHGEt6aNKoLGkU6EOMbG3kQMCV6W--oumSQq4tTC2Tg3tSqYWd/s3840/Man%20made%20mound%20-%20highest%20point%20in%20Guernsey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNHRKEgRWby62iZKDK1ojyxm76zT7hvDZm4ZKEkTc4HLqjz8VcXwe25eGuiYOoxlX1Ce6qet3NKwIQGlytQoGISqjLZjFMj6g64XUyp_yycBe4y99KtynSCPZ8BfIFd2afLzB5376L_qPHGEt6aNKoLGkU6EOMbG3kQMCV6W--oumSQq4tTC2Tg3tSqYWd/w640-h480/Man%20made%20mound%20-%20highest%20point%20in%20Guernsey.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We stayed in Guernsey for five nights, but visited Sark and Le Moulin GU/GU-001 a few days into our stay. I will report on that activation next. </span></span></div></div></div></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-38187229655064150812023-05-15T23:00:00.031+01:002023-09-18T13:44:16.415+01:00Rheinland-Saarland-Hessen SOTA Tour - Day 7<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After leaving the hotel in Wiesbaden on the penultimate day of my tour, I had three more activations planned in the Hessen region. I soon found that Motorway 66 going west was closed due to extensive roadworks going west, and there were no diversion signs. The Satnav wasn't much help, but eventually I got into the grid lock on the minor road heading out of the city in the direction of DM/HE-044. I had planned an easy day visiting three summits in the DM/HE area, however I finished the 3rd summit earlier than I anticipated, so after eating my ham and cheese sandwich lunch (picked from the hotel breakfast table 😁) I studied the map and then added a long drive south of Mainz into the DM/RP, which proved to be a good decision.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">22. DM/HE-044 Kalte Herberge</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">23. DM/HE-045 Hohe Wurzel</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">24. DM/HE-059 Hohe Kanzel</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> (Long drive south)</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(25). DM/RP-272 Donnersberg</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>22. <u>DM/HE-044 Kalte Herberge</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQGCeMqRcmyQR001vHn_TSzD-_4tGTTftgJDeaUWriaEE6Dc_ZAGBrF7N_MUfgBKB6WxchTF6YRRlY3DW8s_e8ncvl_8634qUVe7ZFoz24bYRGyz16Fqm_ELgqFlA3MhoPzFs4nESWDLyoAwPtc2u2vKDac4tdJZreZjYuCb0cCbbC_F_0NkxiIDA0jECi/s3840/DM-HE-044%20Parking.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQGCeMqRcmyQR001vHn_TSzD-_4tGTTftgJDeaUWriaEE6Dc_ZAGBrF7N_MUfgBKB6WxchTF6YRRlY3DW8s_e8ncvl_8634qUVe7ZFoz24bYRGyz16Fqm_ELgqFlA3MhoPzFs4nESWDLyoAwPtc2u2vKDac4tdJZreZjYuCb0cCbbC_F_0NkxiIDA0jECi/w640-h480/DM-HE-044%20Parking.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Parking for DM/HE-044 </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As you can see from the photo there was a large empty car park in woodland to access DM/HE-044. I made my way up a track for 10 minutes into the activation zone. The wood had been cut, leaving some tall pine trees at the side of the track. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirEOQYt8qjMKsCUhjZY5T80u0AXCMLGZKTT1mR0TG-w1_lNnAWJqVcurR2sPaLD_G6uyrWew3sEmPjlXzFJBel-_cBGyfkzbCQcW2edknJn44Zw_JtR27V6NCF_-_AVWu3XHgvsKHTPiRLv96q_f_Z6TfFpAPjyvnu8NAHnwbmJOt4uK0fhf_tfN-XuCP1/s3840/DM-HE-044.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirEOQYt8qjMKsCUhjZY5T80u0AXCMLGZKTT1mR0TG-w1_lNnAWJqVcurR2sPaLD_G6uyrWew3sEmPjlXzFJBel-_cBGyfkzbCQcW2edknJn44Zw_JtR27V6NCF_-_AVWu3XHgvsKHTPiRLv96q_f_Z6TfFpAPjyvnu8NAHnwbmJOt4uK0fhf_tfN-XuCP1/w640-h480/DM-HE-044.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Just a 600m walk with 50m ascent to activate a 6 point summit, easy! 40m CW (29) / SSB (21) was used to make the 50 quick QSOs in good propagation conditions, before making off for DM/HE-045. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">23. <u>DM/HE-045 </u></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: underline;">Hohe Wurzel</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGUKmeYo2JOXwoCcMoFL-jv7z28BaWBBqs1zlN7zVAT6awEEF7m0Ubru4wP_Cv3VpZPINuk2RVLQ6-0feOcoP7W2eN2bS0m-cRMI8g3vQ1r25gDusv0tnsugqGUwzQmKSq3n8rq8f71MaQ30DxpOUDcuPBjsqhMSfbYyZ9CPbud1DTyxG2R8lxGtY-g7sD/s3840/DM-HE-045-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGUKmeYo2JOXwoCcMoFL-jv7z28BaWBBqs1zlN7zVAT6awEEF7m0Ubru4wP_Cv3VpZPINuk2RVLQ6-0feOcoP7W2eN2bS0m-cRMI8g3vQ1r25gDusv0tnsugqGUwzQmKSq3n8rq8f71MaQ30DxpOUDcuPBjsqhMSfbYyZ9CPbud1DTyxG2R8lxGtY-g7sD/w640-h480/DM-HE-045-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Shelter on Hohe Wurzel - 5m pole with inverted vee link dipole</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hohe Wurzel was another easy to access summit with a shelter, just a five minute walk from the car to reach it. There was a light shower so I set up inside the shelter and tied of my 5m pole into a nearby tree. 40m SSB/CW and 30m CW was used and the tally included four S2S contacts with M0GQC/P, OK/SQ9MDF/P, HB9EVF/P and DL/HB9BIN/P in the 38 minutes I was operating. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>24. <u>DM/HE-059 Hohe Kanzel</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It took a little longer to reach DM/HE-059, but not much longer. I parked my car at the end of Nachtigallenweg in the estate shown as "Wildpark" on Locus map. I walked a straight track on to some felled woodland to reach the summit:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD8ti9d9r1XZnh5lV7sUz6ggY5QVlZ4nl8zTsuFv2p39BsZDkakhHWR1WVVhKIT9wE08k2MkcBL1ll-2J2l3mc6YNVzBkvDaoyitb-cM5XJk_tEFtPhaclYtnwJlqiStNcFSz7lmV2vKmyqObiJb1QTJSE4A1nlb0BKp-ADy90bBW4xLQU64pxmJvUq-F0/s3840/DM-HE-059.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD8ti9d9r1XZnh5lV7sUz6ggY5QVlZ4nl8zTsuFv2p39BsZDkakhHWR1WVVhKIT9wE08k2MkcBL1ll-2J2l3mc6YNVzBkvDaoyitb-cM5XJk_tEFtPhaclYtnwJlqiStNcFSz7lmV2vKmyqObiJb1QTJSE4A1nlb0BKp-ADy90bBW4xLQU64pxmJvUq-F0/w640-h480/DM-HE-059.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Just 40m CW/SSB was used to make 35 contacts with the usual EU stations in SP/ON/OK/HB9/DL/G/PA/I/F/S5/EA2/GW/LA. After going QRT at 10:40z I returned to the car where I had my lunch and contemplated what to do with my afternoon, as there was plenty of time remaining to go somewhere else...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>25. <u>DM/RP-272 Donnersberg</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNgInMn3XHt06HkXzeqP8PYaZvmw3IbTK-pDIUC6DHawhu_fHX-ZyCOJLAWhHQwaVrFAoYdNb1eeT0oy4BTMj9jMi7HErjaV5DFJZHLCgclMRTDettJiughnmMu4IabEBr2kpHkqO01Z6QsBgLjIAEdWiqWrefS8EtfIjvh3c0rlY80oKyA_vdeNSC9Dfj/s1286/ScreenHunter%20318.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="1286" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNgInMn3XHt06HkXzeqP8PYaZvmw3IbTK-pDIUC6DHawhu_fHX-ZyCOJLAWhHQwaVrFAoYdNb1eeT0oy4BTMj9jMi7HErjaV5DFJZHLCgclMRTDettJiughnmMu4IabEBr2kpHkqO01Z6QsBgLjIAEdWiqWrefS8EtfIjvh3c0rlY80oKyA_vdeNSC9Dfj/w640-h142/ScreenHunter%20318.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I must have been driving for well over an hour on Autobahn 63, arriving at the car park for DM/RP-272 at around 1245z. The car park was within the activation zone, but after such as easy day I decided to walk 1 Km to the actual summit, which had an operating bench adjacent to it... </span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOVv3Of60xk1SdcntcKhGi6lymlDpFwnIqPVniaLZM5vKSqlLM233Ihmpgif3hEh56pwDUf8g--bHoIZrRi_1CKxlMHbz97eFY4I4U0KumNxs3SDtMbuSN-R1cALjmxiXg2B9E-OiJU32Q1FHCCk_xqMnINU7Nqeb00vkGfjjv72AWeXDqOIgU6lVOyxIh/s3840/DM-RP-272%20Trig.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOVv3Of60xk1SdcntcKhGi6lymlDpFwnIqPVniaLZM5vKSqlLM233Ihmpgif3hEh56pwDUf8g--bHoIZrRi_1CKxlMHbz97eFY4I4U0KumNxs3SDtMbuSN-R1cALjmxiXg2B9E-OiJU32Q1FHCCk_xqMnINU7Nqeb00vkGfjjv72AWeXDqOIgU6lVOyxIh/w640-h480/DM-RP-272%20Trig.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DL/G4OBKs Meindl fabric boot at the trig point on DM/RP-272</span></td></tr></tbody></table><u><br /></u></b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinp9nnSk4MhwTecid_xUsDoNM0U-hS5ntPsWQQRuIJC3GZpB-276KK24UGff1J2d3KI3yAfN-jynWEs6KvT9J8iCJyscOeuYvva7t1wOkGa8OWK9N5DKpYPHrLCiOyXdyelNV3WO9HZUxm2F_TORYT-XogrNMcwgK5jbt3gcpfE9-2W0yof3UBquIS6fol/s3840/DM-RP-272%20Operating%20Seat.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinp9nnSk4MhwTecid_xUsDoNM0U-hS5ntPsWQQRuIJC3GZpB-276KK24UGff1J2d3KI3yAfN-jynWEs6KvT9J8iCJyscOeuYvva7t1wOkGa8OWK9N5DKpYPHrLCiOyXdyelNV3WO9HZUxm2F_TORYT-XogrNMcwgK5jbt3gcpfE9-2W0yof3UBquIS6fol/w480-h640/DM-RP-272%20Operating%20Seat.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My bench seat for the 33 QSO activation</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The 40m SSB rate was poor on this summit, maybe it was the time of day. I only made three contacts using voice with G0FEX, HB9DDZ and 2E0ESY before the callers dried up. The other 30 contacts were on 40m and 30m CW during my 30 minute session. I then drove back to Wies baden, deciding to try a Pizza Hut out for my evening meal. It was a very dissapointing meal. The Lasagne I chose was nothing like the real thing. I won't be returning to Pizza Hut again I said to myself, wishing I had opted to pay a little more for my main meal and eat in the Italian restaurant not far from the hotel where I had eaten on the first night of three in Wiesbaden. I was leaving the next day for my Ryanair flight back to Stansted at Hahn airport, but before that on Tuesday morning there would be time to squeeze in two final six point activations in the DM/RP area before I handed my car</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">back to the rental company and headed through security. </span></div></div></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-56836803932462514762023-05-14T23:59:00.021+01:002023-06-14T21:32:26.513+01:00Rheinland-Saarland-Hessen SOTA Tour - Day 6<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Day 6 after breakfast saw me leaving Hotel Toskana on the outskirts of Wiesbaden for these four summits:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">18. DM/HE-097 Steinkopf</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">19. DM/HE-003 </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Großer Feldberg</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">20. DM/HE-547 Nickel</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">21. DM/HE-151 Staufen</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">One advantage of staying in a corporate type of hotel, catering for business people, is there are a lot of breakfast choices, and its easy to make up a ham and cheese sandwich for your lunch and slip it into your walking trouser thigh pocket before you leave the restaurant.... this is what I did for Day 6 and 7 as </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I had used up my supply of vacuum packed Lidl sandwiches bought on Day 2 of the tour. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><u>18. DM/HE-097 Steinkopf</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It took around 90 minutes to reach the DM/HE-097 parking place, on the road outside the Forsthaus Winterstein Restaurant. From there woodland tracks and a mountain bike trail leads to the summit. I walked up on the woodland tracks and came down on the mountain bike trails keeping an attentive watch backwards in case any cyclists were coming up behind me. There are GPX files for both tracks in the SMP and SOTLAS:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwuWiLYV6HsOBTaArrp9tBMXxX9wEq-fMeyzYegWrFD0OAXWz3yC15YOHqdmLIywYjNzDuifCQGdh1uDzhfVjzO3TX2-o3r0Hkl0lQgncfOFHHwaCAsrO-jl3MbfRIUHYkGCCsDYuDv1RH_aFdgM99wF_--bkewP_3rrXy7prJfNJwktoIjfTnB6olWA/s730/ScreenHunter%20267.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="730" height="622" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwuWiLYV6HsOBTaArrp9tBMXxX9wEq-fMeyzYegWrFD0OAXWz3yC15YOHqdmLIywYjNzDuifCQGdh1uDzhfVjzO3TX2-o3r0Hkl0lQgncfOFHHwaCAsrO-jl3MbfRIUHYkGCCsDYuDv1RH_aFdgM99wF_--bkewP_3rrXy7prJfNJwktoIjfTnB6olWA/w640-h622/ScreenHunter%20267.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I set up in a sparse area of woodland away from the TV transmitter on the summit. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8eoF6sGkXmEdZPiyJV97B_Sw3M1g6TIX_YHDKRQtbOLaZ8DgApAJmSyWvHg5TXJ_Pz0yNDOrtSBNddUk7FiuQ_0RITllL7pYFozgknA7_8BsRegJVwueRWlN4qPYozzLuZONmrR50gm2BBZ0UGBylVBYivUUwrM7YTBuvhXtGy-Z3gi5q0GGuvSkUHw/s3840/DM-HE-097-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8eoF6sGkXmEdZPiyJV97B_Sw3M1g6TIX_YHDKRQtbOLaZ8DgApAJmSyWvHg5TXJ_Pz0yNDOrtSBNddUk7FiuQ_0RITllL7pYFozgknA7_8BsRegJVwueRWlN4qPYozzLuZONmrR50gm2BBZ0UGBylVBYivUUwrM7YTBuvhXtGy-Z3gi5q0GGuvSkUHw/w640-h480/DM-HE-097-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There's nothng much else to say about what was another typical woodland summit in this part of Germany. Thirty contacts made, I packed up and went to the next summit.</span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><u><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">19. DM/HE-003 </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Großer Feldberg</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><u><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The only 10 point summit of my tour. After the long drive to my first summit the other three summits were much closer to each other. I thought </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Großer Feldberg would be a drive-on summit. It was Sunday and the roads around and leading to the summit were choked with cyclists, motorbikers and motorists like myself. The summit is served by public transport. I got to the car park on the top and it was solid, no space. A brass band was playing and there was a hotel, restaurants and several communications towers:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb_Z7a8yEuHH4pTrI5r29okS5hSEsaNbTF6Wm5ra7-RHbpdSBPLrir_5qflshriytyiOjDlIowVHEj0Pd3OAuJ27ekJQ5ITML57Nb4x2fbEOSHvnyYU9n7W-USBsOEvoBnMTB5i_CeleVnKEqZ33BHIEWMnywI7t3fTRUADw7deVDyHHN-5e1Pg6mvxA/s3840/DM-HE-003-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb_Z7a8yEuHH4pTrI5r29okS5hSEsaNbTF6Wm5ra7-RHbpdSBPLrir_5qflshriytyiOjDlIowVHEj0Pd3OAuJ27ekJQ5ITML57Nb4x2fbEOSHvnyYU9n7W-USBsOEvoBnMTB5i_CeleVnKEqZ33BHIEWMnywI7t3fTRUADw7deVDyHHN-5e1Pg6mvxA/w640-h480/DM-HE-003-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I turned the car round and went back down the hill where there were plenty of echeloned parking places alongside the hill road. It took less than 10 minutes to walk from there to a seat and fixing post on the summit, where I set up my station and made 51 contacts:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHFtUtK-8vWQCW-82zbWc6bU4bF0VRkwz-dqS9Wvbtad3X8qbVuSOuG5dMBowQDr0e-b52d7_4Yk-TS5hO56McnpRP2buQzTdcCCJkmfSjkh4kPLJcjhaWgtIL_ohQwV185qO4eqpdk5n115owRhMQLbqd-EXORcmnzVsBtvL7B2OmzFEpk15Xo6ZtQ/s3840/DM-HE-003-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHFtUtK-8vWQCW-82zbWc6bU4bF0VRkwz-dqS9Wvbtad3X8qbVuSOuG5dMBowQDr0e-b52d7_4Yk-TS5hO56McnpRP2buQzTdcCCJkmfSjkh4kPLJcjhaWgtIL_ohQwV185qO4eqpdk5n115owRhMQLbqd-EXORcmnzVsBtvL7B2OmzFEpk15Xo6ZtQ/w640-h480/DM-HE-003-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The nearby rocks and viewpoint attracted a lot of tourists, no one bothered me, operating with my headphones on. I never went over to see what the attraction was. Returning to the car, I had my lunch and then drove 18 Km to the parking place for Nickel DM/HE-547. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><u>20. DM/HE-547 Nickel</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">An easy 20 minutes walk up in a felled forest, with lots of log piles waiting for collection. Nothing worth photographing. There were a few passing walkers and cyclists, 35 QSOs made, all in Europe. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6aoL0ybsHTqS_xaJL91Tp1-Us1pHarGxlBaxfORUGnfqGT3UbiFDMIeB37-aAtLydVFmovLBGjPrwhtuAWzaE2N6O2kyG1SN2dNIZRgpROmjLENHfZUirHCxWW4pTf4_Cdz6ERodycW9az8IzB18mKmSjBPd-yG-RCFkme3mI5bS9bKjjkDnks1jd6g/s791/ScreenHunter%20268.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="791" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6aoL0ybsHTqS_xaJL91Tp1-Us1pHarGxlBaxfORUGnfqGT3UbiFDMIeB37-aAtLydVFmovLBGjPrwhtuAWzaE2N6O2kyG1SN2dNIZRgpROmjLENHfZUirHCxWW4pTf4_Cdz6ERodycW9az8IzB18mKmSjBPd-yG-RCFkme3mI5bS9bKjjkDnks1jd6g/w640-h350/ScreenHunter%20268.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><u><b>21. DM/HE-151 Staufen</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A pleasant 25 minutes walk up in woodland from a housing estate (155m ascent). The viewpoint, which was well populated with people sitting in the sun, is not within the activation zone. I continued and stopped short of the top at a Foresters Cabin, which I was able to use as my antenna fixing point, with the steps up to the door being my seat:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio3_N4vv0RvpYjwhy1bLMoDsp3gb5JDWl_k12z6Us6ZA7QA8f8SqRE8ixfpYTIylDRBGbhYPTAIUV7zvetH3RMVnC0ToQScXbFc901Prq9FIoxodRMFlghLXuQq-zrF8hvfrCYT8lMyKhDvH0t64sj1BBVCNrVxGKHSwW19cLIwTe_O8soXnVhhGdvwA/s967/ScreenHunter%20269.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="967" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio3_N4vv0RvpYjwhy1bLMoDsp3gb5JDWl_k12z6Us6ZA7QA8f8SqRE8ixfpYTIylDRBGbhYPTAIUV7zvetH3RMVnC0ToQScXbFc901Prq9FIoxodRMFlghLXuQq-zrF8hvfrCYT8lMyKhDvH0t64sj1BBVCNrVxGKHSwW19cLIwTe_O8soXnVhhGdvwA/w640-h412/ScreenHunter%20269.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Foresters Cabin in AZ on DM/HE-151 Staufen</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On my way down near the viewpoint where all the people were, this unique looking scooter was parked. I hadn't see one like it before:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivfNMEFqk0A_IcZpF5JO_3KthaExj2cDHoqaq1BDqFh-lGmFkk1opuH60-iwPH2zwrhvdCl6NeILsdm5olFr91Nq7gTFlHgrOFDhAXNlkqTvxq1TI08RNCi4HHOUONDBpSWRlllL82A83-167oXxmWbPb2SCYpJiyl69R31ID7HgeIhw6Ehp8BJZXZ_A/s3840/DM-HE-151%20scooter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivfNMEFqk0A_IcZpF5JO_3KthaExj2cDHoqaq1BDqFh-lGmFkk1opuH60-iwPH2zwrhvdCl6NeILsdm5olFr91Nq7gTFlHgrOFDhAXNlkqTvxq1TI08RNCi4HHOUONDBpSWRlllL82A83-167oXxmWbPb2SCYpJiyl69R31ID7HgeIhw6Ehp8BJZXZ_A/w640-h480/DM-HE-151%20scooter.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I headed back to my hotel in Wiesbaden, calling for some fast food at a Burger King on the way. The Hotel Toskana didn't serve evening meals, only breakfast, and the excellent Italian restaurant I used near to the hotel on the Saturday was closed on Sundays.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-67339337161628896032023-05-13T23:59:00.003+01:002023-06-11T21:38:37.333+01:00Rheinland-Saarland-Hessen SOTA Tour - Day 5<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Day 5 and by the evening I would be in the DM/HE Hesse area, staying in the largest city in the Hesse region, Weisbaden. Before that I was to activate four more summits in the DM/RP area including meeting up with Joerg DO1DJJ for joint activations on DM/RP-002 and DM/RP-001. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">14. DM/RP-002 Ernst Berg</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">15. DM/RP-001 Hohe Acht</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">16. DM/RP-470 Karmelenberg </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">17. DM/RP-193 Kandrich</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><u>14. DM/RP-002 Ernst Berg</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My Gasthaus in Udersdorf was only 18 Km from the parking place for DM/RP-002. Joerg DO1DJJ arrived on time for our 20 minute walk through the woodland to the six point summit. There were no other people present amongst the trees. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Joerg made a short video of me operating on 40m CW:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwpTBJUzS_llOUTxps8LDPg51wIa1JpzV7sKACfuOowADGbm3s-6MtstzA16nB4OdqlpTAsZuJhyqspyzfxMw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Joerg set up about 20 metres away from me and used the 15m and 2m bands for his activation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEFEaAKepjCzUs6M6XdmRXAzo4VezTDfJWEhQbYfqw6Dw9dPFWwN0dr0WBqVi_M3ajj2osWi8AkZKF-oGbCp1YLkNVV201fgc-_wrbr0puzYeKYK89BhwXWIPK8OARWyqWDfKNYLiPLkFUEcgaxJtHG2P8iCBg-s38ksMD8KXp51Sn8yjkWMuhd9FSug/s3840/DM-RP-002%20DO1DJJ%20Joerg%202.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEFEaAKepjCzUs6M6XdmRXAzo4VezTDfJWEhQbYfqw6Dw9dPFWwN0dr0WBqVi_M3ajj2osWi8AkZKF-oGbCp1YLkNVV201fgc-_wrbr0puzYeKYK89BhwXWIPK8OARWyqWDfKNYLiPLkFUEcgaxJtHG2P8iCBg-s38ksMD8KXp51Sn8yjkWMuhd9FSug/w640-h480/DM-RP-002%20DO1DJJ%20Joerg%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Joerg DO1DJJ oparating with his Yaesu FT-897 with internal battery</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I went on the 40m band and finally 30m, to finish with 44 contacts. We packed up and made our way to DM/RP-001, around 35 Km to the east of DM/RP-002.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><u><b>15. DM/RP-001 Hohe Acht</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After driving near to the Nurburgring motor racing circuit we arrived at the parking area for Hohe Acht. We were on the summit within 20 minutes again, this time the walk was less than 1 Km with an ascent of 125m. I set up my station on a picnic table and Joerg set up round the back of the Emperor William (Kaiser Bill) observation tower on the summit. Here is a picture of me and the tower, which was built in 1909:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW4De0K_O_IkMPnm8xRWC-360iqig0X2k_-3monSn7vtnt-z0BJN4LbO6llzE9HOLY4ux25QjE3W0JhEMHsVrcSbOpGywEOM2qg1Q1aoLPxrpVhP3njld42O4zfbj2qvOSCHwgVYDx7Y-eHsKA7VE0fboUNWcbLePsg0QF-yr6YNnvZ-Z5qQuYpi5b_A/s3840/DM-RP-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW4De0K_O_IkMPnm8xRWC-360iqig0X2k_-3monSn7vtnt-z0BJN4LbO6llzE9HOLY4ux25QjE3W0JhEMHsVrcSbOpGywEOM2qg1Q1aoLPxrpVhP3njld42O4zfbj2qvOSCHwgVYDx7Y-eHsKA7VE0fboUNWcbLePsg0QF-yr6YNnvZ-Z5qQuYpi5b_A/w480-h640/DM-RP-001.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We both had successful activations, with several people coming up to the tower and climbing it while we were there. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQBg6mbWTTTGX3hosC1Jt5MaIupIL9z5VM0Rmh3R2csmegRllZ8WMPkqSHZR1-Hqy5DeA4jOtlZH90r8_Xu1VnGo1CVkiBbZ-MCIWUDQvP047LCaCN-opMpfPbSOlng-0WJ9Ogj5aXpdFkFpxBTtu3GKgxSrWL-TMC6lrABJ29ATaJqX_WfBzWL-m0tQ/s795/DM-RP-001%20DO1DJJ%20-%20DL-G4OBK.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="795" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQBg6mbWTTTGX3hosC1Jt5MaIupIL9z5VM0Rmh3R2csmegRllZ8WMPkqSHZR1-Hqy5DeA4jOtlZH90r8_Xu1VnGo1CVkiBbZ-MCIWUDQvP047LCaCN-opMpfPbSOlng-0WJ9Ogj5aXpdFkFpxBTtu3GKgxSrWL-TMC6lrABJ29ATaJqX_WfBzWL-m0tQ/w640-h540/DM-RP-001%20DO1DJJ%20-%20DL-G4OBK.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Joerg DO1DJJ and Phil G4OBK on DM/RP-001 Hohe Acht</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It had been great to have had Joerg's company mid way through my tour of the region. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Returning to the car park we bade our farewells and I headed off to another summit, DM/RP-408, this however was not to be activated by me today...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">16. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">DM/RP-470 Karmelenberg</span></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">DM/RP-408 Hochsimmer was listed as my next summit, however when I reached the parking place at 50.365N 7.216E, north of Ettringen, it was pouring with rain. I didn't fancy the 4 Km 170m ascent in the rain, so I drove away in the direction of Koblenz, to reach the easy access summit of DM/RP-470, which had a church on the top. It took just 15 minutes walk to reach the top from an official car park:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiI1cZlc6ee7FDFtVAX3Y6Xjua6ZwDkqhHv0Cz2xPcLngDV_KwUdqGF_Ll3fQPfIiCaMM6zTBePd4d4EVvEOdT3zDePCi8-mL_DFXYkghcelHM_19QtP0KL4qKYefHgjZ6EcQ1pn7lW9eS8WcoirzQ55Rb2zxARm5PUc79xaz8vLqIYgLgtF-_SYRaqA/s3840/DM-RP-470%20Parking.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiI1cZlc6ee7FDFtVAX3Y6Xjua6ZwDkqhHv0Cz2xPcLngDV_KwUdqGF_Ll3fQPfIiCaMM6zTBePd4d4EVvEOdT3zDePCi8-mL_DFXYkghcelHM_19QtP0KL4qKYefHgjZ6EcQ1pn7lW9eS8WcoirzQ55Rb2zxARm5PUc79xaz8vLqIYgLgtF-_SYRaqA/w640-h480/DM-RP-470%20Parking.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Parking for DM/RP-470 Karmelenberg</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A picnic table and bench had again being supplied for the activators:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc-9aKHTEMdyeGxZt7gUYWQZThh59SF7hP_z6ZeX0kmUW30RMJxK78bjKom5KOWo6aLB-UNYZjdo0BmQdXIM3bMxvtlMLqe1okbSQH1ZjdnsppyQN6wfSju5WZoIm-37F5OotPcnCiHXcoh_uZmR4K-yZDhzPT8hUnIlTC9W_weanAyKZcI_eYpIn4vg/s3840/DM-RP-470%20Table.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc-9aKHTEMdyeGxZt7gUYWQZThh59SF7hP_z6ZeX0kmUW30RMJxK78bjKom5KOWo6aLB-UNYZjdo0BmQdXIM3bMxvtlMLqe1okbSQH1ZjdnsppyQN6wfSju5WZoIm-37F5OotPcnCiHXcoh_uZmR4K-yZDhzPT8hUnIlTC9W_weanAyKZcI_eYpIn4vg/w640-h480/DM-RP-470%20Table.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It was threatening to rain, so after 17 QSOs on 40m I packed up the station and headed to the last summit of the day. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><u>17. DM/RP-193 Kandrich</u></b></span></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After deciding to leave DM/RP-408 I had to find another summit in the direction of Wiesbaden where I was staying for the last three nights of my tour. DM/RP-193 (6 points) looked ideal. Kandrich is located within a wind farm and I parked at the start of a forestry track 2.2 km from the summit. I hadn't planned my route in advance and once I got nearer the summit I realised I could have parked at the Waldgastatte Emmerichshutte Restaurant which was much closer to the summit:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGg94GdctjYWU_U3IIsIXcEOYNLCGGEbeGnNEYMrfQ19fi8hlCUCTebUk16QmrAc6cF2AFx7NLrCAjnnYp1_9FspXISy1LwMVwdTyfepwab67eZKuukP4ofh0oeP3RTl1ANEyS2bG4IdJqCjPsZgxNOWSvJ4mrnheaer2IyL4Ob6bb6b_KXxAPRGTJqw/s1567/ScreenHunter%20262.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1567" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGg94GdctjYWU_U3IIsIXcEOYNLCGGEbeGnNEYMrfQ19fi8hlCUCTebUk16QmrAc6cF2AFx7NLrCAjnnYp1_9FspXISy1LwMVwdTyfepwab67eZKuukP4ofh0oeP3RTl1ANEyS2bG4IdJqCjPsZgxNOWSvJ4mrnheaer2IyL4Ob6bb6b_KXxAPRGTJqw/w640-h360/ScreenHunter%20262.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I wasted 20 minutes walking to the restaurant but as this was my last summit in the day it wasn't an issue. I set up around 100m from one of the turbines in a QRM free location. The best DX worked of the tour was here - this was a contact with Galih, YC2VOC who has been appearing in EU Activators log regularly this year:</span></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDvCD-agiiu23LNWa-bD8tgo5UP63bkH1-2-z_-JzvVQuoAA650N602Ex-tMktJKFdeir_SpWpsXSZEGVmw-WEh5c7GJn1RMy5IkPq-lDDKZuXmfh2TaVan5NYlcNxwMFMLy0aB_XZaqu1kkhbfTsWYbkmbICXv5JUwr_RIu1L1ickK7Ifoq5cvx14MQ/s914/ScreenHunter%20263.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="914" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDvCD-agiiu23LNWa-bD8tgo5UP63bkH1-2-z_-JzvVQuoAA650N602Ex-tMktJKFdeir_SpWpsXSZEGVmw-WEh5c7GJn1RMy5IkPq-lDDKZuXmfh2TaVan5NYlcNxwMFMLy0aB_XZaqu1kkhbfTsWYbkmbICXv5JUwr_RIu1L1ickK7Ifoq5cvx14MQ/w640-h360/ScreenHunter%20263.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFMa-eS3W4ZWSU5sVNjXaGzzQuNoskQip9gPQFCTULhM14gh2NH6KMZEaC7ara8icKKl0vLBIdubUAB_XkqUP3asc-1Ege3ylsRIiojplosaqK_usX7SiU6ou_sauKdi3KGPXS0BUmYsVVHL1eXCTrlIK-9n7yb2vAZPhsnnpsropwY0PMkUQ27--rsg/s3840/DM-RP-193.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFMa-eS3W4ZWSU5sVNjXaGzzQuNoskQip9gPQFCTULhM14gh2NH6KMZEaC7ara8icKKl0vLBIdubUAB_XkqUP3asc-1Ege3ylsRIiojplosaqK_usX7SiU6ou_sauKdi3KGPXS0BUmYsVVHL1eXCTrlIK-9n7yb2vAZPhsnnpsropwY0PMkUQ27--rsg/w640-h480/DM-RP-193.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rain wasn't threatening and it was pleasant operating in the late afternoon sunshine. I made 25 contacts before calling ceased on 40m SSB. One of the last stations worked was the very active Leszek, who was OK/SQ9MDF/P today, operating from OK/KR-005. </span></div></span></div></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-3717816604275244032023-05-12T23:59:00.004+01:002023-05-31T22:44:52.789+01:00Rheinland-Saarland-Hessen SOTA Tour - Day 4<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With DM/SR-075 already activated I was able to leave Losheim after a 7.00am breakfast and head straight over to Luxembourg, where the price of E10 unleaded petrol was slightly cheaper. The Ford Puma was filled at €1.51 per litre, whereas in Germany the price was between €1.72 and €1.83 at the places I had passed. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">11. LX/LX-005 Preventbusch (QRV 0756z-0809z)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">12. DM/RP-466 Hohe Piesport (QRV 1028z-1110z)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">13. DM/RP-412 Hohe Haardter Hochwald (QRV 1257z-1332z)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><u><b>1</b></u><b><u>1. </u></b></span><b><u>LX/LX-005 Preventbusch</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hI4qmQwWUnC0sIzsLQb68Mj7BCVIvZlzvqviQSJa9AA11njEJZoKsO8h7ETwQ5WxWSB1xrFZHfh2waIuHRwsTPZgvu9tR0plw4stCcvIBdiPvi1w_Ft7rQei8usXAtubUuRSyHRdw8cPam5Tm6SWHucRVJUiweI1lZRqhPdo7ITrC216Km1IS7CneQ/s3840/LX-005%20parking.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hI4qmQwWUnC0sIzsLQb68Mj7BCVIvZlzvqviQSJa9AA11njEJZoKsO8h7ETwQ5WxWSB1xrFZHfh2waIuHRwsTPZgvu9tR0plw4stCcvIBdiPvi1w_Ft7rQei8usXAtubUuRSyHRdw8cPam5Tm6SWHucRVJUiweI1lZRqhPdo7ITrC216Km1IS7CneQ/w640-h480/LX-005%20parking.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Car Parked by the comms mast on LX/LX-005 </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Within minutes of arriving at the parking place for LX/LX-005 it started to rain. I set up as quickly as I could and made 20 CW contacts on 40m before packing up. It was a shame not to do justice operating again in Luxembourg, however I did re-complete the country. The last time I visited for SOTA there wasn't an LX-005. But after a prominence re-assessment, LX/LX-002 was deleted and LX/LX-005 replaced it. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Amn0pVzEa1fhFvWSZSyU8zpfr49Xbhpy-Uww39VsO2JoMJ6_7BA4INOZuishMP06mfnUrazUH-Rwq1eBKzmboYCu-lKKAIoDfMelrf5lg6cnZjf8_QFAMwTLZolDDKL3vwLUVrh2WtY5DThtGEVlc3xi_a4sqygbfjYdVK8hl5Acin6E13FROTDM_w/s3840/LX-005%20operating%20site%20in%20rain.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Amn0pVzEa1fhFvWSZSyU8zpfr49Xbhpy-Uww39VsO2JoMJ6_7BA4INOZuishMP06mfnUrazUH-Rwq1eBKzmboYCu-lKKAIoDfMelrf5lg6cnZjf8_QFAMwTLZolDDKL3vwLUVrh2WtY5DThtGEVlc3xi_a4sqygbfjYdVK8hl5Acin6E13FROTDM_w/w640-h480/LX-005%20operating%20site%20in%20rain.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">LX/G4OBK/P roadside station in the rain</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe6jNHLj_X0AJXpFeOn0K14BXL8wOOsz752x2ztNSV9o3tKWKA8ymFzRDtGSPbl4WF4DGgE1lwuvHxsAUCtV4f5PvQ_w4LXzUZeTua2hvLOS9EJ3fqK_8E-oxwNbO3P0FYqugLI9Pw5V07sxuv_YEpL5mCxVuUV1H1rYo2P4SifeuxBztJYJZlTqMe8g/s3840/LX-005%20Tower.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe6jNHLj_X0AJXpFeOn0K14BXL8wOOsz752x2ztNSV9o3tKWKA8ymFzRDtGSPbl4WF4DGgE1lwuvHxsAUCtV4f5PvQ_w4LXzUZeTua2hvLOS9EJ3fqK_8E-oxwNbO3P0FYqugLI9Pw5V07sxuv_YEpL5mCxVuUV1H1rYo2P4SifeuxBztJYJZlTqMe8g/w480-h640/LX-005%20Tower.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mast on summit -</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> no interference on the 40m band 150m away from it</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBHtSDZjI_3PEFUdqyowbaqje9VFMMYSlMoGlRLR7ac0FkKhR7a07HiYbk9fru_sPmUVlcN31SUijVnZmhImvqA0WreOuNeB5fnKxqN9FwQuE_gYIXRIq419RloJTc0UlBjTqOoR63MPO4ITs3Mc0_WaC1v3T9Gq_F3MyKJsp5XBtDX9ll-26u5MmaZA/s3840/LX-005.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBHtSDZjI_3PEFUdqyowbaqje9VFMMYSlMoGlRLR7ac0FkKhR7a07HiYbk9fru_sPmUVlcN31SUijVnZmhImvqA0WreOuNeB5fnKxqN9FwQuE_gYIXRIq419RloJTc0UlBjTqOoR63MPO4ITs3Mc0_WaC1v3T9Gq_F3MyKJsp5XBtDX9ll-26u5MmaZA/w640-h480/LX-005.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Decathlon stool in use again</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I made my way back into Germany, it took about 75 minutes to reach the parking place for: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">12. DM/RP-466 Hohe Piesport </span></u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The summit is named after the nearby town of Piesport which lies on the other side of the Mosel, 1.5 Km from the summit.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When I arrived at the parking place it was raining. I passed the time for 30 minutes before the rain stopped. Luc ON7DQ had uploaded his GPX track into the SOTA Mapping Project website and had </span><span style="font-family: arial;">told me about a shelter well inside the activation zone, which I intended to use as the showers were persisting. Just 23 minutes walk time and I reached the shelter - a 50m ascent over a distance of 1.7 Km. The unpaved road is for farm traffic only:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiisvxZ0WxIKH_psFFnx0DJDzLYnKqUj0inpWrqtjEXaas1ry5C9wb487MiwNCjpSd4kw3UzP6eXdZFjJPyXYRG8ACsEEFrjDXHTrEJXvaR4bDw-01zgAEiCpV-H_yu3Uli3EjsSXdOjbtJ4yJgh599CRx1ggyToPHRZ6sjd07APSDV2-zIJQivkWygHA/s3840/DM-RP-466%20Walk%20start.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiisvxZ0WxIKH_psFFnx0DJDzLYnKqUj0inpWrqtjEXaas1ry5C9wb487MiwNCjpSd4kw3UzP6eXdZFjJPyXYRG8ACsEEFrjDXHTrEJXvaR4bDw-01zgAEiCpV-H_yu3Uli3EjsSXdOjbtJ4yJgh599CRx1ggyToPHRZ6sjd07APSDV2-zIJQivkWygHA/w640-h480/DM-RP-466%20Walk%20start.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I reached the shelter there was a tie off point for my pole within the reach of my coax cable. Shortly after starting up my operation three friendly German hikers arrived, who were very interested in what I was doing. One of them even gave me a spicy German sausage, which I enjoyed after explaining what SOTA was about!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB2ZmTt2vhpLT6KmInbDr9BzVdYZk7YnIH00K4ZYQ1EwZjX3yPqBKygOGBmYKRGuNGWCNpajAEgWbTH7O1n3nmEkSbgp2qHgKlhyseXw83WjDH0SBWB6UU4ZJ9qgq-y8J0ZzzxLcJ74p_X4uxxZZmwj8p1xCQqJ2VZN3QdpI6UUWGrbqPMzNWPtkMZ4g/s3840/DM-RP-466-4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB2ZmTt2vhpLT6KmInbDr9BzVdYZk7YnIH00K4ZYQ1EwZjX3yPqBKygOGBmYKRGuNGWCNpajAEgWbTH7O1n3nmEkSbgp2qHgKlhyseXw83WjDH0SBWB6UU4ZJ9qgq-y8J0ZzzxLcJ74p_X4uxxZZmwj8p1xCQqJ2VZN3QdpI6UUWGrbqPMzNWPtkMZ4g/w640-h480/DM-RP-466-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Two of the walkers (left) and Phil DL/G4OBK/P on the right</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhey2IovwjPtMGDFdFFuzQnxxKLvKRKu0vhXo48CYXk9X2nRKb8zMw2lJ0mM7g-l3QLv_Ydkiv6dWogqDhGjuLiSSrRAp8kE8dpFR3171IUiyHkFbiN-1F8wAXhobD-cB0HFJL8cqMvPvSvujJYaJePrwwsXdHyaNgCHy3v3BtzWRXcDV5Oq-h-cuigJA/s3840/DM-RP-466-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhey2IovwjPtMGDFdFFuzQnxxKLvKRKu0vhXo48CYXk9X2nRKb8zMw2lJ0mM7g-l3QLv_Ydkiv6dWogqDhGjuLiSSrRAp8kE8dpFR3171IUiyHkFbiN-1F8wAXhobD-cB0HFJL8cqMvPvSvujJYaJePrwwsXdHyaNgCHy3v3BtzWRXcDV5Oq-h-cuigJA/w640-h480/DM-RP-466-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Shelter with tie post for pole</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_uInKxAjXWPU6vA4mpONlrGj9S8Cb68HcArDz3ljnNNwyswL83lgHKKTgXa94epI_Km_Zawac8NtraGwtlFteq3elhaKe6VcFA1b8yCkAniy7Au94wwbJIN2IyLKOx0_ETR5al5xW_3jNptetMQqlS_t9d-tvB3qS7_09Mw10CjHPv9xQo4nYRJra5w/s3840/DM-RP-466-3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_uInKxAjXWPU6vA4mpONlrGj9S8Cb68HcArDz3ljnNNwyswL83lgHKKTgXa94epI_Km_Zawac8NtraGwtlFteq3elhaKe6VcFA1b8yCkAniy7Au94wwbJIN2IyLKOx0_ETR5al5xW_3jNptetMQqlS_t9d-tvB3qS7_09Mw10CjHPv9xQo4nYRJra5w/w640-h480/DM-RP-466-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Elecraft KX3 on the air</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I enjoyed interacting with the walkers, they spoke excellent english. I had spoken to so few people over the previous three days, apart from hotel staff. The hikers told me their route was of around 12 Km, and this lunch stop for them was around half way round.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I used all three bands (20/30/40m) to make 35 contacts around Europe all told, before moving on.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYHm6b6xNV-asiZI2NX4qEGeJOodZVQargiZ3OE4-ZQ1-i4ZneYIHlkIwxeKBHvGxYX3STYyw1raL5mhhq7I3z1mxlfJOfpaRN-iNcpRRgKRjMC-cZ4Hlr5LOW8ODBRqxg_G1uhu0FrCK6r0S4iXrNdNYuxZ2AdZcP0ty4VS9BumG8qCk91oUK5iabjg/s802/ScreenHunter%20259.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="802" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYHm6b6xNV-asiZI2NX4qEGeJOodZVQargiZ3OE4-ZQ1-i4ZneYIHlkIwxeKBHvGxYX3STYyw1raL5mhhq7I3z1mxlfJOfpaRN-iNcpRRgKRjMC-cZ4Hlr5LOW8ODBRqxg_G1uhu0FrCK6r0S4iXrNdNYuxZ2AdZcP0ty4VS9BumG8qCk91oUK5iabjg/w640-h524/ScreenHunter%20259.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">13. DM/RP-412 Hohe Haardter Hochwald</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By early afternoon the rain had stopped. There was a parking layby for DM/RP-412 which looked like a piece of the old road.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEWP0X8MuFu3GdGwce0ODGlgasTYOye0GMYDyeSKeNlsyAUz0wViBh2UeEVl6deLWzrOT9mfBFuLlPuBlfhya8YD8kJRI5zAGI8veEmuK_gU7X0O6NaCeVBJXyYCYAFmat42udRqp0hHpFbv94CAlq1WNUS7zcQhVtSjF_QQqejEr9JbnD1ddRXV9Sxw/s3840/DM-RP-412%20Parking.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEWP0X8MuFu3GdGwce0ODGlgasTYOye0GMYDyeSKeNlsyAUz0wViBh2UeEVl6deLWzrOT9mfBFuLlPuBlfhya8YD8kJRI5zAGI8veEmuK_gU7X0O6NaCeVBJXyYCYAFmat42udRqp0hHpFbv94CAlq1WNUS7zcQhVtSjF_QQqejEr9JbnD1ddRXV9Sxw/w640-h480/DM-RP-412%20Parking.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I crossed over the main road, leaving the forest track on a slightly overgrown, but easy to negotiate but wet track into woodland. It was only 1 Km to the summit with 125m ascent - twenty minutes walk. The activation followed the same pattern as the previous one - this time I got 40 contacts on 20/30/40m before finishing.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1z-aHIGkc35doZEpO4LVnc2xzbCwv5ZXAo_TRcKq0nb-23XjXbvVos2f8JQNly1mhXmFOVHUuqyVToi6bEQiNUZV6o2jpKd0JDrcJJ1Xsks_CdWr_jZh5ov8FFazLnu3YgXCfFfEhMoNYQ3K41No7j3wYpr318LKhg-c0jC50VMYPdcIckv1CXkJn2A/s3840/DM-RP-412%20Woodland.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1z-aHIGkc35doZEpO4LVnc2xzbCwv5ZXAo_TRcKq0nb-23XjXbvVos2f8JQNly1mhXmFOVHUuqyVToi6bEQiNUZV6o2jpKd0JDrcJJ1Xsks_CdWr_jZh5ov8FFazLnu3YgXCfFfEhMoNYQ3K41No7j3wYpr318LKhg-c0jC50VMYPdcIckv1CXkJn2A/w640-h480/DM-RP-412%20Woodland.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">5m Travel Pole fastened to tree supporting link dipole </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My final one night stay in the DM/RP area, before a three nighter in Weisbaden, DM/HE Hessen Region, was near the village of Udersdorf - an excellent gasthaus managed by welcoming hosts, Wilfred and Paula. There was complementary coffee on arrival, a 250 ml bottle of Rose wine to drink whilst I was submitting my log into the SOTA Database in my room, and a dinner of spare ribs with Weiss beer to look forward to later.....</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVBqVGB4NPPdkmp7nBtffikKPy0YpaBj6Bh1TnODTMBB7Xer2zQT4DmyZ7TA5HRirRLr8JZrfImIXGWKp-E5ylwQrjcyBTSycMkMXLqrjHVTclHbZ7OFKovP0pkK8OZYrTc2qE5V6muVSj5UQEZbI7-dop2pzIp8Fk0-G0Cf3QwiCwuDTWp7kZxyozBQ/s3840/Gasthaus%20Paula%20Udersdorf%20-%20excellent.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVBqVGB4NPPdkmp7nBtffikKPy0YpaBj6Bh1TnODTMBB7Xer2zQT4DmyZ7TA5HRirRLr8JZrfImIXGWKp-E5ylwQrjcyBTSycMkMXLqrjHVTclHbZ7OFKovP0pkK8OZYrTc2qE5V6muVSj5UQEZbI7-dop2pzIp8Fk0-G0Cf3QwiCwuDTWp7kZxyozBQ/w640-h480/Gasthaus%20Paula%20Udersdorf%20-%20excellent.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Gasthaus Paula at Udersdorf</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-30310515582935725992023-05-11T23:59:00.035+01:002023-05-29T15:11:17.888+01:00Rheinland-Saarland-Hessen SOTA Tour - Day 3<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">11th May 2023 was a day spent mostly driving with little walking. Traffic was fairly quiet with only one umleitung due to road works. So I had free time in the afternoon, allowing five summits to be activated when my itinerary said I would visit only four:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">6. DM/SR-006 Trautzberg (QRV 0634z-0700z)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">7. DM/SR-012 Schaumberg (QRV 0814z-0851z</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">8. DM/RP-171 Roster Kopf (QRV 0957z-1023z)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">9. DM/RP-449 Teufelskopf (QRV 1128z-1148z)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">10. DM/SR-075 Langensteinchen (QRV 1305z-1336z)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A breakfast bag got me away from Grafendhron at a early hour and I headed towards the state of Saarland - said to be the most religous region in Germany. I had stocked up on the necessary items needed at Lidl the previous afternoon to get me through several days activations - bottled water, fruit, pre-packed sandwiches and energy bars. It is amazing how long the Lidl vacuum packed sandwiches remain fresh, there must be something in the bread... The weather again wasn't so good so they would not bake too much in the car. I had enough for two days activations. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><u>6. DM/SR-006 Trautzberg</u></b> was a relatively small scale wind farm and a drive on summit with permitted access. I parked on a wide mouthed junction and walked 100m to a tie off point for my antenna. There was no noticable interference from the windmills on the 40m band:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjITJVDvsxbQFcgB9JQ3Ii8P71moandntYGCeOElzomBKN7Bwqr0fj_fOTTarvY0DtFUwcoaHygwaBlzYbuPrfEBQi33P4IuqJH6SywlABE3LtCbu3JYBOoXBYEqVZWLPQDSjO8pnxV3fkErzLVv267ryg7cgWifbQADJWU1FWBHgWnHq_LA9VB3MEQuA/s3840/DM-SR-006%20Drive%20on.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjITJVDvsxbQFcgB9JQ3Ii8P71moandntYGCeOElzomBKN7Bwqr0fj_fOTTarvY0DtFUwcoaHygwaBlzYbuPrfEBQi33P4IuqJH6SywlABE3LtCbu3JYBOoXBYEqVZWLPQDSjO8pnxV3fkErzLVv267ryg7cgWifbQADJWU1FWBHgWnHq_LA9VB3MEQuA/w640-h480/DM-SR-006%20Drive%20on.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><u>7. DM/SR-012 Schaumberg</u></b> was next - a "fully furnished" summit with cafe's, toilets, educational stuff for schoolchildren and other things. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The summit is served by public transport.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I parked a little way down the hill on a large free car park. After a short walk I found a large bench seat out of the way from people, where I could operate. The head gardener still found me and enquired what I was doing. There was no problem and he continued with his work. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNuUbwved4PkqoLle2xOZM_4sv6X7Dj24mZsHaX4DU-gd8J_qrtIc2UBJ7NIA0FiSxbMM8YXTKsaCoXo0ZZHXTjFJR2CsFBvjuuUwgAxzoRoxLC1--E_sxxRy9qHQCKfZ7wf9Kn8DHMKJsgPR9R_1U00vrAl7TT5TXEYY-PtGpfYy2rv7FaolMv6t0zQ/s3840/DM-SR-012-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNuUbwved4PkqoLle2xOZM_4sv6X7Dj24mZsHaX4DU-gd8J_qrtIc2UBJ7NIA0FiSxbMM8YXTKsaCoXo0ZZHXTjFJR2CsFBvjuuUwgAxzoRoxLC1--E_sxxRy9qHQCKfZ7wf9Kn8DHMKJsgPR9R_1U00vrAl7TT5TXEYY-PtGpfYy2rv7FaolMv6t0zQ/w640-h480/DM-SR-012-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggLVuS58oVNBcC37xFSvjLKzahIzIYZOC4DaW3uJfMBzPILRHBBnNFM91qngsvcudWKon-Z7uXO7Q4K9mL9VpvhHkARmC9Q-ddt6XhyLb8kb5vUOqfQ9spZ6GncSDLRyD3mLkmSyt8K0nfCnln--0yc-25GLRfuV3ReHTjZ-3slB-5IYTCvQ4lSzUV7Q/s3840/DM-SR-012-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggLVuS58oVNBcC37xFSvjLKzahIzIYZOC4DaW3uJfMBzPILRHBBnNFM91qngsvcudWKon-Z7uXO7Q4K9mL9VpvhHkARmC9Q-ddt6XhyLb8kb5vUOqfQ9spZ6GncSDLRyD3mLkmSyt8K0nfCnln--0yc-25GLRfuV3ReHTjZ-3slB-5IYTCvQ4lSzUV7Q/w640-h480/DM-SR-012-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXQtfs6vY5F8Jhi2bmTVTvApcNnPAyNJn1k_UBjUhUMqvVNY9VpD9OpIEqlx6HY1XkYavI-rSPc902Ozw8H-JR8B3WSwqDbiz86Rfv01p31DsPy-QRpGO4YAFqQjxj9W8kzRHpHaUjTftAtlhWiZ8etaCFqJAPMb5JtBJZWsZ0T2zPBPBgwSp_Ycfm4w/s3840/DM-SR-012-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXQtfs6vY5F8Jhi2bmTVTvApcNnPAyNJn1k_UBjUhUMqvVNY9VpD9OpIEqlx6HY1XkYavI-rSPc902Ozw8H-JR8B3WSwqDbiz86Rfv01p31DsPy-QRpGO4YAFqQjxj9W8kzRHpHaUjTftAtlhWiZ8etaCFqJAPMb5JtBJZWsZ0T2zPBPBgwSp_Ycfm4w/w640-h480/DM-SR-012-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nick, G4OOE was again the first contact on 40m CW, followed by Tonnie PA9CW. </span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There was only one S2S contact amongst the 51 40m band contacts - with Fabio HB9/IK2LEY/P who was operating from HB/TI-158. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><u>8. DM/RP-171 Roster Kopf</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_iFIYQEAOUU2aCGk5UNPZaGstufHJpEdifL0djHRgN_jIBzrIAF5S39vUNyuAx4IUEhyIgsqjPnW9y8rNtdZK5zsOakMAs1jfJM28mUqeG8gMcG-66YVXSs_4YWOLzGcA4QfZk89uwcUz9KvhDnZW9fjHP7Wj8amAk93VEHG4ci4YsYPpzBt-gQzYKg/s3840/DM-RP-171.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_iFIYQEAOUU2aCGk5UNPZaGstufHJpEdifL0djHRgN_jIBzrIAF5S39vUNyuAx4IUEhyIgsqjPnW9y8rNtdZK5zsOakMAs1jfJM28mUqeG8gMcG-66YVXSs_4YWOLzGcA4QfZk89uwcUz9KvhDnZW9fjHP7Wj8amAk93VEHG4ci4YsYPpzBt-gQzYKg/w640-h480/DM-RP-171.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This was another woodland summit which provided me with a picnic table and bench after a short walk from the car park into the woods. I can't remember much more about the summit to be truthful... For a change I started on 30m and also added 20m and 40m. All contacts on this summit were in CW. Avoiding operation in SSB was deliberate - Rene DL/OT6V/P and Rudy DL/ON5VR/P had activated this summit earlier in the day on that mode. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Chasers calls were soon drying up though, so </span><span style="font-family: arial;">band hopping proved necessary - </span><span style="font-family: arial;">It's always worth a band change or two in such circumstances. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I only made 25 contacts before going QRT after no further replies to my CQ calls. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><u>9. DM/RP-449 Teufelskopf</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There was an even more substantial bench and table on Teufelskopf along with an open fronted chapel in the middle of what was a large wood:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGoS5bmEgYMSfMBSqBmoSU880_BrMY_Y72_lL9Zn8bLQiNt32PQJSqt4qE_v4ms4yJlnBGQcOyvMzOTY_EqtX2RM-WsJ8kozuLEevm9ofon4tDhmizrARd_xMR-fEJdZ6OJUZwCfsLl_Tnk9EZWYuFTaFtlkNJzxF20nBctsp2VNS5lM8Gz1Va1kra0A/s3840/DM-RP-449.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGoS5bmEgYMSfMBSqBmoSU880_BrMY_Y72_lL9Zn8bLQiNt32PQJSqt4qE_v4ms4yJlnBGQcOyvMzOTY_EqtX2RM-WsJ8kozuLEevm9ofon4tDhmizrARd_xMR-fEJdZ6OJUZwCfsLl_Tnk9EZWYuFTaFtlkNJzxF20nBctsp2VNS5lM8Gz1Va1kra0A/w640-h480/DM-RP-449.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilZWpmKz9EJuR9za-P0nL6OM84ESub7lt1w4mk_ohfBnQHpj_w2XaAPgXgrCR3AaLpp1coy-qPEMkHDmZFNG5unrhuCvR1S65nDFd-5trZd8XPFKc1qYDQetQKSdUtP6Hxh2JKpopQCUoxdnv39rTYbLtH0VuqBgoucovbdYgOZLPuWtGRaHwOK25plA/s3840/DM-RP-449%20CHAPEL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilZWpmKz9EJuR9za-P0nL6OM84ESub7lt1w4mk_ohfBnQHpj_w2XaAPgXgrCR3AaLpp1coy-qPEMkHDmZFNG5unrhuCvR1S65nDFd-5trZd8XPFKc1qYDQetQKSdUtP6Hxh2JKpopQCUoxdnv39rTYbLtH0VuqBgoucovbdYgOZLPuWtGRaHwOK25plA/w640-h480/DM-RP-449%20CHAPEL.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Again Rene and Rudy had been here using SSB earlier in the day so I concentrated on CW only using the 30m and 40m bands.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><u>10. DM/SR-075 Langensteinchen</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A 4 point summit in the woodland with a shelter and table - this was a good thing, as it had now started raining. I used SSB and CW on this final summit - and found my friends Rene and Rudy operating on 40m from DM/RP-158 Erbeskopf, where I was active from the previous day. I didn't take a photo on DM/SR-075, so I copied this photo from SOTLAS, acknowledging the owner, DL3NM:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4DBYJwcCqLucpGjTCHqcHQM66GU-QZx1Qx6OkBFsxMWQotzk-gtlp1oKmXxHlFDsXMN7uW7gmm5lsv-CeYc8jrzcbal4ss2wUeKf8yAmZvZBMXOJykzxeY5SEsTBLiwe_VCoQZKJpjwJKYUEQdCe5wOZk4Cw8oh8f4lkyaMkz_QAzjJaWSVxVw7nYgg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1144" data-original-width="1600" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4DBYJwcCqLucpGjTCHqcHQM66GU-QZx1Qx6OkBFsxMWQotzk-gtlp1oKmXxHlFDsXMN7uW7gmm5lsv-CeYc8jrzcbal4ss2wUeKf8yAmZvZBMXOJykzxeY5SEsTBLiwe_VCoQZKJpjwJKYUEQdCe5wOZk4Cw8oh8f4lkyaMkz_QAzjJaWSVxVw7nYgg=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo courtesy of DL3NM</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I can confirm that there were no restrictions to vehicles in reaching the junction where the shelter was located. This was also the same place as from where Luc ON7DQ operated, when he visited in 2018. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My evening destination was to the Seehotel near Losheim. An excellent place, to stay, serving good food and a splendid Weiss beer. This was a marked improvement to the Landhaus in Grafendrhon, where I had spent the previous two nights.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIago-zBeUk2l6Ukm9NKQ4fcQ8t4qiR0lIJbGt7e1odh6Epbw62w29Ixtam4SoEzthrqY0vPSnLzg76DB1OLwz6yJXyxrFhY6gqe7r9-n2U-SLKay-Bpu3HASaHTPm1ZUl9HQ8GqUY-ih-5BCrtO3tP7G1sTbRTfDrDHzLUyVDJSFpy-WQKDeCAUASxA/s3840/Seehotel%20Losheim%20excellent.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIago-zBeUk2l6Ukm9NKQ4fcQ8t4qiR0lIJbGt7e1odh6Epbw62w29Ixtam4SoEzthrqY0vPSnLzg76DB1OLwz6yJXyxrFhY6gqe7r9-n2U-SLKay-Bpu3HASaHTPm1ZUl9HQ8GqUY-ih-5BCrtO3tP7G1sTbRTfDrDHzLUyVDJSFpy-WQKDeCAUASxA/w640-h480/Seehotel%20Losheim%20excellent.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-24966038249898006172023-05-10T23:59:00.001+01:002023-05-29T15:08:47.267+01:00Rheinland-Saarland-Hessen SOTA Tour Day 2<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My first full day in Germany, the plan for today was to activate two drive on summits and two I had to climb, before returning for my second night at Landhaus Grafendhron:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1. DM/RP-158<span> Erbeskopf (Drive on)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2. DM/RP-150<span> Kinheimer Berg (Drive on)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">3. DM/RP-436<span> Rothenburg 1 (2.3 km 140m ascent one way)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">4. DM/RP-452<span> Wehlener Wold (2.7 km 220m ascent one way)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>As the Landhaus served breakfast from 8am, which was too late a start for me, I had opted for a "breakfast bag" on both days. This consisted of sandwiches, fruit and an energy bar. As I had no dinner the previous night during my journey from the airport to DM/RP-187, most of my breakfast bag was consumed that evening, leaving me little for the next day. Driving between the summits in the countryside meant I did not pass though any towns with supermarkets, so by the middle of the day I was running short on food, and by the time I was walking to Wehlener Wold, energy.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><u><b>2. DM/RP-158 Erbeskopf</b></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>The summit is located on the edge of Hunsruck-Hochwald National Park, and is also a counter for POTA as DA-0026. The hill forms part of a radar station operated by the German Military. I obtained a permit to operate on HF from there on a specific day, 10th May 2023. A car park is provided and I walked 100m to this shelter, which was fortunate, as it was starting to rain:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvSyICJCL26wA0I9gALX7TtOqYKvC5VOKkmMiim_N3an3r6rxM-Dj5Y5bArcLgo5HmNwgwLV1Cg2RiVrF2CpCyp6D1bcuRYKB70taiBJlT6HxE-175L6sdeBiBFCKH9ryZr0FkzK7xs3R_M99pPw9FcSDay9qXqLOJ-4PfbPQYTyCrinisgn9cghsToA/s4608/DM-RP-158-2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvSyICJCL26wA0I9gALX7TtOqYKvC5VOKkmMiim_N3an3r6rxM-Dj5Y5bArcLgo5HmNwgwLV1Cg2RiVrF2CpCyp6D1bcuRYKB70taiBJlT6HxE-175L6sdeBiBFCKH9ryZr0FkzK7xs3R_M99pPw9FcSDay9qXqLOJ-4PfbPQYTyCrinisgn9cghsToA/w640-h480/DM-RP-158-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Link Inverted vee dipole on 5m pole</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnh2oIVa8WLtYfSkLFArrrGNqDDO131Bq6OvlHNEo5vsIg3CerwJSu96yOYYbE-x4bD0UYoy_K7Y8ohsqCHj2hN93dhyLIhQFYfGqORsz1GfrPNB5wMn-59Gs7AsjskHTIOFWxNYTYVw40_o3t3bQbJj_ZE9mQLunhgusxd3h4E9Jh4ws20eyDVQZxQw/s4608/DM-RP-158-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnh2oIVa8WLtYfSkLFArrrGNqDDO131Bq6OvlHNEo5vsIg3CerwJSu96yOYYbE-x4bD0UYoy_K7Y8ohsqCHj2hN93dhyLIhQFYfGqORsz1GfrPNB5wMn-59Gs7AsjskHTIOFWxNYTYVw40_o3t3bQbJj_ZE9mQLunhgusxd3h4E9Jh4ws20eyDVQZxQw/w640-h480/DM-RP-158-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJx_6WTN2a0vMWXhz3DuxjhPx2CoFRwyu5gETcC0h7RxcqSDdtZbJwd87nHlOo3hBu6dnQJCwydYEzbFvkYhk7jQ5Ul8MmiaJuoEDuJ6QWGIgb2OyAJVI9VceyonEkO-a7izGN5ruFK6AIJOHWjkhSlt8LmRVMycQ1cLJSB9NoxSCxoIclIxSHGvjJBw/s4608/DM-RP-158-4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJx_6WTN2a0vMWXhz3DuxjhPx2CoFRwyu5gETcC0h7RxcqSDdtZbJwd87nHlOo3hBu6dnQJCwydYEzbFvkYhk7jQ5Ul8MmiaJuoEDuJ6QWGIgb2OyAJVI9VceyonEkO-a7izGN5ruFK6AIJOHWjkhSlt8LmRVMycQ1cLJSB9NoxSCxoIclIxSHGvjJBw/w640-h480/DM-RP-158-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Viewing tower on the summit of Erbeskopf near the shelter</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">My first contact was with Nick G4OOE in Scarborough at 06:07 UTC on 40m CW. I was off to an early start and only stayed on the air for 12 minutes, finishing with an SSB contact with QRP Chaser Mariusz, SP9AMH. Leszek OK/SQ9MDF/P was worked as an S2S on OK/OL-018. Condx on 40m at that time in a morning can be variable, and many chasers I assumed were having breakfast or were still in bed. By 0620z on SSB there were no more callers so I moved on. Out of the 27 summits activated on this tour this was the only one where I was unable to bungee my pole to some sort of support - I used a 3 point guying ring. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><u><b>3. DM/RP-150 Kinheimer Berg</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I tried to find a better place to operate in a field on the edge of the woodland but couldn't find anywhere suitable, so I returned to the roadside layby on the road that runs over the summit. An uninspiring summit that produced 45 QSOs however, mostly on 40m CW/SSB. There were zero S2S contacts. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVdip9t8tV2OcgZRulv-mbIfim4-G3svKYRWTVpC8SxyPGn2QjUyq8eMiX4UEyAdtVjj7Efb2CoKbbvkz2-XYX4TOVabXzXTI0ihD73wq64nXX5gFInvHQwQm28-gBcvORQRBTIqW8w3uioaCTlHM0P3-4orWMhe0w95VRTXOd6ODSa0Tz4fgtoM1NSQ/s4608/DM-RP-150%20Drive%20on.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVdip9t8tV2OcgZRulv-mbIfim4-G3svKYRWTVpC8SxyPGn2QjUyq8eMiX4UEyAdtVjj7Efb2CoKbbvkz2-XYX4TOVabXzXTI0ihD73wq64nXX5gFInvHQwQm28-gBcvORQRBTIqW8w3uioaCTlHM0P3-4orWMhe0w95VRTXOd6ODSa0Tz4fgtoM1NSQ/w640-h480/DM-RP-150%20Drive%20on.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Layby activation of DM/RP-150 - so the Decathlon 3 legged stool was deployed again</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>4. DM/RP-436 Rothenburg 1</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUjaL_kDdHLIqEVrPPzVwGrFnUwiNEhr1MruRLQ9WlP66mGhHLUGXuus38RbQammhqKy_HXuGZp7UQEK1Db_GhosnmLiVM9jFlFyGSTsBGxCuzFBYDP3Gxfu174wju_4xZGMNv9ExYPji5qB7WQxfZSDjldr2wtYAWjABRaBbnihTdwFr-0zIHrvhBA/s1570/ScreenHunter%20250.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="818" data-original-width="1570" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUjaL_kDdHLIqEVrPPzVwGrFnUwiNEhr1MruRLQ9WlP66mGhHLUGXuus38RbQammhqKy_HXuGZp7UQEK1Db_GhosnmLiVM9jFlFyGSTsBGxCuzFBYDP3Gxfu174wju_4xZGMNv9ExYPji5qB7WQxfZSDjldr2wtYAWjABRaBbnihTdwFr-0zIHrvhBA/w640-h334/ScreenHunter%20250.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGe2XEWhUZ5iBk9ni48LP9gC3RZMPy2JTxuUJnnAX3HbFGNZRDCGhFnT73o4lIJqJ1nWPfnSjXCu5Fd8gGN89uzBWSuB9ionXuAysNiEA_AeKgmRibvQsZOaxTdJ2tGlpuWQaL-Kd1lxKI_yTBBrDSKhinz47OlXXkhRvIDXBIcwc9tdaL61jyd6_M1A/s4608/DM-RP-436%20start%20of%20track.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGe2XEWhUZ5iBk9ni48LP9gC3RZMPy2JTxuUJnnAX3HbFGNZRDCGhFnT73o4lIJqJ1nWPfnSjXCu5Fd8gGN89uzBWSuB9ionXuAysNiEA_AeKgmRibvQsZOaxTdJ2tGlpuWQaL-Kd1lxKI_yTBBrDSKhinz47OlXXkhRvIDXBIcwc9tdaL61jyd6_M1A/w640-h480/DM-RP-436%20start%20of%20track.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Vehicles were not permissable on the track leading to Rothenburg 1. I parked just off the main road, which was busy. The Mosel river lies close by, and there is a impressively engineered motorway bridge with an enormous span way above the valley, just north east of the summit:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbS8XTAV0POUZa-Gx5t1AtTZUGauDKt3pUiS_DS_cOtVc9QR1rreHgmQslCikSa-yfMGf-768WVfrc642bDP3XVIsm146v-4prrXg6BhZx99UhIOKnV9NZAhDVpmJje85vHWt8mC78xR1bEWkGLxTFBTJauVOXhGRoiChqAgT4zRgBnpSJ-f8IwIk85w/s3840/DM-RP-436%20motorway%20bridge%20over%20Mosel%20Valley.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbS8XTAV0POUZa-Gx5t1AtTZUGauDKt3pUiS_DS_cOtVc9QR1rreHgmQslCikSa-yfMGf-768WVfrc642bDP3XVIsm146v-4prrXg6BhZx99UhIOKnV9NZAhDVpmJje85vHWt8mC78xR1bEWkGLxTFBTJauVOXhGRoiChqAgT4zRgBnpSJ-f8IwIk85w/w640-h480/DM-RP-436%20motorway%20bridge%20over%20Mosel%20Valley.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I left the track after 2.1 km to walk through the woodland to the summit and saw my first ever wild boar! It ran straight across my forward view around 20m away. I must have frightened the beast, and I never saw it again. We don't have any Wild Boar in the UK so I was pleased to see one in the wild. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMON8SXqXjW_rpkqcNo6Li1k4A1R09_j6OgZy0dehRSG_qGOe0-7Cq2DC4p1tbwFZiQZP7jq_afYSqOnUYnjGqi9x9E9Z53_ZwsjLqDyGdKV1gxVKBAwnnvoY-FDozYdIRQxWSQ6P2hp1rtpUCsrMN4JSYmuQr6YuwY4blZGFflRtaLw70DMEOYeOFxA/s3840/DM-RP-436-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMON8SXqXjW_rpkqcNo6Li1k4A1R09_j6OgZy0dehRSG_qGOe0-7Cq2DC4p1tbwFZiQZP7jq_afYSqOnUYnjGqi9x9E9Z53_ZwsjLqDyGdKV1gxVKBAwnnvoY-FDozYdIRQxWSQ6P2hp1rtpUCsrMN4JSYmuQr6YuwY4blZGFflRtaLw70DMEOYeOFxA/w640-h480/DM-RP-436-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUqyqk1gUcrqsNBYDL_NE9mHFEhnuMLztTqO01dxRXLIw8ywoUsAxXspTHuD9t6fja4UBPEvnDzNxMHzpePVIcYVkPdPfItQj2E7eXnjJdfcgAwrHr6qb9bvjfulKVZU1BLRVus9uWbCMKqoVCMcNFjOMBNxXGW5bANfAG9t3e7Md9dCwn8v0X2zThg/s3840/DM-RP-436-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUqyqk1gUcrqsNBYDL_NE9mHFEhnuMLztTqO01dxRXLIw8ywoUsAxXspTHuD9t6fja4UBPEvnDzNxMHzpePVIcYVkPdPfItQj2E7eXnjJdfcgAwrHr6qb9bvjfulKVZU1BLRVus9uWbCMKqoVCMcNFjOMBNxXGW5bANfAG9t3e7Md9dCwn8v0X2zThg/w640-h480/DM-RP-436-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I operated within the woodland, at the trig point, tieing off my pole to a tree. I stayed on 40m. The first contact was with Victor GI4ONL and I was active for 20 minutes, before packing up and moving on. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>5. DM/RP-452 Wehlener Wold</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpwNOL6KbWs5M7vVMyThJMT00JYK1EKN2Rm1riwWFaX7OWAZtOYzUDdb2l7vYbR1pq5G_6031uEi6CwzkYAC4SxwogsDrKm0f0vZ7eMTYFqWsbrFGq1xXWquXkR7tQkpVmJ-A56x2TDjoA_Qkj2W-4VaZaaapRqfsSUE3TJ4PtNd_QJqdqul7MqY0KFg/s1916/ScreenHunter%20251.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="859" data-original-width="1916" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpwNOL6KbWs5M7vVMyThJMT00JYK1EKN2Rm1riwWFaX7OWAZtOYzUDdb2l7vYbR1pq5G_6031uEi6CwzkYAC4SxwogsDrKm0f0vZ7eMTYFqWsbrFGq1xXWquXkR7tQkpVmJ-A56x2TDjoA_Qkj2W-4VaZaaapRqfsSUE3TJ4PtNd_QJqdqul7MqY0KFg/w640-h286/ScreenHunter%20251.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Pletten village to the summit of Wehlener Wold in the woodland</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For my 4th and final summit today I had to walk further than anticipated. The tarmac road up the hill was restricted to farmer traffic, so I parked in the village of Platten in a residential street and walked up into the forest, passing on the way, this historical wine press:</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFge-Z_kmlhfUhbZfIlWRy5fRps0Ex_nuxPXRGuuYh40HCusxhU670Dl1xlYkt1rIu_VO8Syd_wyLT-2uXyYR9aaUSH-y6UNdP3oRa4FUUq85uSMIJqmpqc3bM-nkeDG_ZrrY6F99yo-vHM0kb5pNFyfwDoKVDnJD0m56vCAh3AwcZe3zMM1yU6tqaMg/s3840/DM-RP-452%20wine%20press%20seen%20on%20walk%20up.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFge-Z_kmlhfUhbZfIlWRy5fRps0Ex_nuxPXRGuuYh40HCusxhU670Dl1xlYkt1rIu_VO8Syd_wyLT-2uXyYR9aaUSH-y6UNdP3oRa4FUUq85uSMIJqmpqc3bM-nkeDG_ZrrY6F99yo-vHM0kb5pNFyfwDoKVDnJD0m56vCAh3AwcZe3zMM1yU6tqaMg/w640-h480/DM-RP-452%20wine%20press%20seen%20on%20walk%20up.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wine Press near Platten on the hairpin bend at 49.947N 6.956E</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Continuing on to the summit, the tarmac road melded into a forest track. I left this to join a slightly overgrown path that took me to another forestry track running across what was a non-descript two point summit:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzwiN_0HbKDhIabvCjhiDUOCWMRuyXZS6zO5oket0p8NaYHCHWmnECfm-OqdVFxrlGheHEv_rFa1lJmeF-n0Rq3_SwJ5cR1XjaSJ3DbA7JAneu7sMYTkbbK6JIrs1zLQXpaE6e5VmpvCSHm-ZOQSNtOVh5oOT5mABJKA2aNIMqnj-B_3jQXKGuzms7TQ/s3840/DM-RP-452%20summit%20in%20featureless%20woodland.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzwiN_0HbKDhIabvCjhiDUOCWMRuyXZS6zO5oket0p8NaYHCHWmnECfm-OqdVFxrlGheHEv_rFa1lJmeF-n0Rq3_SwJ5cR1XjaSJ3DbA7JAneu7sMYTkbbK6JIrs1zLQXpaE6e5VmpvCSHm-ZOQSNtOVh5oOT5mABJKA2aNIMqnj-B_3jQXKGuzms7TQ/w640-h480/DM-RP-452%20summit%20in%20featureless%20woodland.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The track running over the summit of DM/RP-452 Wehlener Wold</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Contacts on 40m CW/SSB dried up again after 20 minutes. I was quite hungry by now and had run out of water. I was back at my car though by 1330 UTC, but decided I had done enough for the day with the four summits, so I went in search of food and drink using the SATNAV POI function to take me to a Lidl supermarket in nearby Wittlich, where I sat on my Decathlon stool in the car park and consumed pastries, cake and coca cola before returning to my room in the Landhaus at Grafendrhon. </div></div></div></span></span></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-30729719824356801442023-05-09T23:59:00.003+01:002023-05-29T15:07:56.368+01:00Rheinland-Saarland-Hessen SOTA Tour Day 1<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The DM/RP Rheinland Pfalz area looked to be a good place for me to go and activate some unique and easy to access summits. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The adjacent SOTA areas of Saarland DM/SR, Hessen </span><span style="font-family: arial;">DM/HE and Luxembourg LX, where I had unfinished business, where also reachable within the hire car mileage allowance of 1400 Kms on a 7 day rent, at 200 Kms per day. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><u><b>Day 1</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><u><b>1. DM/RP-187 Wildenburger Kopf</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Cheap flights by Mr O'Leary's Ryanair were available from Stansted, 200 miles by road from my home, the roads to there are good so the airport can be reached from North Yorkshire within 4 hours. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The afternoon flight brought me into Frankfurt (Hahn) airport by 18:00 local time, so I was in my Europcar hire car and driving out of the airport within the hour, leaving me time for one activation before it was dark. The weather was horrible and wet as I made by way to the drive on summit of DM/RP-187 Wildenburger Kopf (6 points). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLBSpk7ol8LmFcuaOUv3ol1TMngG_7Alh7Rz4s-7I9-EY4c8hVbBbcdo9unAiqNLUbv2L1mW2VfnfiW1RdczWv4X4vdiBRT3eDdTALVmTv9YBqolfC8XmtXWhr0Jv7XJoTVuuR3DpxvKgZJxBPUy9Q767OG0dv6yHXoAAwDZXnvBj_qzWUTA0wF_TJwA/s883/Tues%20Arrival.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="883" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLBSpk7ol8LmFcuaOUv3ol1TMngG_7Alh7Rz4s-7I9-EY4c8hVbBbcdo9unAiqNLUbv2L1mW2VfnfiW1RdczWv4X4vdiBRT3eDdTALVmTv9YBqolfC8XmtXWhr0Jv7XJoTVuuR3DpxvKgZJxBPUy9Q767OG0dv6yHXoAAwDZXnvBj_qzWUTA0wF_TJwA/w640-h442/Tues%20Arrival.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Driving route Frankfurt (Hahn) > DM/RP-187 > Landhaus Grafendrhon</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFYOttpBbIxefyvBbQQ1Hu4F8pGR6MKh0gp1TPyjps7ue2MUHQfPcFGMGh_0so2q3GqyOV5f3dLzgbPhJ3aG6Gph5WLPTgnKwCcLgFazPeacWjT_w1p5RcTnju-upZh57N81IQQ1HHbPE9yjhazLLzlgwWU4h2qztfNKv1YjrQwmrS3L3Mz8zPoiOgJg/s4000/DM-RP-187%20Drive%20on.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFYOttpBbIxefyvBbQQ1Hu4F8pGR6MKh0gp1TPyjps7ue2MUHQfPcFGMGh_0so2q3GqyOV5f3dLzgbPhJ3aG6Gph5WLPTgnKwCcLgFazPeacWjT_w1p5RcTnju-upZh57N81IQQ1HHbPE9yjhazLLzlgwWU4h2qztfNKv1YjrQwmrS3L3Mz8zPoiOgJg/w640-h480/DM-RP-187%20Drive%20on.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hire car - a Ford Puma ST Hybrid with 7000 Kms on the clock</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The small budget airport at Hahn is actually 40 miles from Frankfurt and in a good place to start a SOTA Tour. I reached DM/RP-187 in around 30 minutes and found an operating position that would allow me and my equipment to remain dry, once my antenna was erected:</span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK173rEfuhoEaj-ZajaENPxDVDvmEp5Dl5WTL6GdcfAHY1tFAf-iQ460wvC2Gnw9Oo2UV3q2qDhhqQcbeQ6TLHngkv090zZB9VgAKXQWQ2pl5-Ut3XLXmoRgnLJPMX_jMhV9J8s7rXG524_6qGjL_mw-DVQIdmPS7bP8E8lEpgwTbTF_J02AHDyU-dqw/s4000/DM-RP-187%20Operating%20shed%20in%20rain.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK173rEfuhoEaj-ZajaENPxDVDvmEp5Dl5WTL6GdcfAHY1tFAf-iQ460wvC2Gnw9Oo2UV3q2qDhhqQcbeQ6TLHngkv090zZB9VgAKXQWQ2pl5-Ut3XLXmoRgnLJPMX_jMhV9J8s7rXG524_6qGjL_mw-DVQIdmPS7bP8E8lEpgwTbTF_J02AHDyU-dqw/w640-h480/DM-RP-187%20Operating%20shed%20in%20rain.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The shelter for my activation - with fixing post close by for travel pole - superb! </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCTJhBlIuabYOO4eSuyS-SaeMLq2xt0KBJGJsyqIbvpCD6UEp0dICJe4N0LxfnkpKFW5qMoxgKLBymO_mukmMoEjXZMIbmCF5E_mjkw6bmemBnI6aab0NH41IRfo6P2NxTBj_OO0sQcsiZ5hlx5gxU6Ak9okc5yjwoq-_RNyTVZQfph3iaVa6Sn4QeEw/s4000/DM-RP-187%20operating.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCTJhBlIuabYOO4eSuyS-SaeMLq2xt0KBJGJsyqIbvpCD6UEp0dICJe4N0LxfnkpKFW5qMoxgKLBymO_mukmMoEjXZMIbmCF5E_mjkw6bmemBnI6aab0NH41IRfo6P2NxTBj_OO0sQcsiZ5hlx5gxU6Ak9okc5yjwoq-_RNyTVZQfph3iaVa6Sn4QeEw/w480-h640/DM-RP-187%20operating.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Operating from my Decathlon stool with the KX3 on my knees</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I didn't have much time to spare before driving to Grafendhron and my Landhaus B&B for the first two nights, so I made 17 fast QSOs from 17:35-17:51z on 40m CW/SSB before packing up. The first station logged being GI4ONL Victor, near Bushmills, followed by Tonnie PA9CW. Last man worked was the very active Markus IN3ADF. By the time I arrived at Landhaus Grafendhron it was dark and very wet and there were no signs of life in the building. A note in German on one of the doors titled "Liebe Gaste" appeared to be directed at me. It was inviting me to ring a mobile number. After failing to get a signal on the phone I normally use in Europe, I was getting desperate, fearing a night sleeping in the car. However, my backup mobile phone had a signal and after speaking to the proprietor I was able to locate the hidden key to get me into the building and my room. I would not recommend staying at this place for several reasons....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once I had unpacked in my tiny room I went back into the car to change the language of the digital dashboard in my Ford Puma to English. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Day 2 will follow....</span></div></span></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-21781694380726917652023-03-22T23:00:00.004+00:002023-03-27T13:35:28.145+01:00Half wave end fed antenna tests on Cringle Moor G/TW-002<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The half wave end fed - I was a doubter, even a non-believer you may say, in the popular half wave end fed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On 100s of HF SOTA activations since I started from the hills and mountains in 2005 I have always used the half wave resonant link dipole without baluns, configured as an inverted vee. I have used an inverted L on top band a few times on summits, but not in the last ten years.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Despite working 1000s of SOTA activations mainly in Europe, and UK but also worldwide (I have over 200,000 Chaser points) at very good signal strengths, I was still dubious <b>UNTIL LAST WEDNESDAY</b> when I tried the half wave end fed out on an activation myself on Cringle Moor G/TW-002. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5dVYEuJMERVCxK4gTS14A6_RLDMMbPtgrTc8vgRORgtIZ1DuddIvyObLAnBATw_DH9XjGarzvCTIdZaNPvP23kDMdeZX4dbv5Nwo4Hg8LTuk07VYdXhMxE4_A7gNCGTV2N2S2TbfBaoaNgGJLa61cCzUN4i3eV41ZXrggvs59D0CiwQOOsZm-zfdxNQ/s1638/ScreenHunter%20192.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1638" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5dVYEuJMERVCxK4gTS14A6_RLDMMbPtgrTc8vgRORgtIZ1DuddIvyObLAnBATw_DH9XjGarzvCTIdZaNPvP23kDMdeZX4dbv5Nwo4Hg8LTuk07VYdXhMxE4_A7gNCGTV2N2S2TbfBaoaNgGJLa61cCzUN4i3eV41ZXrggvs59D0CiwQOOsZm-zfdxNQ/w640-h282/ScreenHunter%20192.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Leaving the Lord Stones Cafe and Farm Shop Car Park (No charge) at OS grid reference NZ 524030, I was on the summit within 27 minutes. Approaching the top I passed the Alec Falconer Monument and stone seat:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh64hq8LeQorm9S83VV40yabNcHBgz5CSy8mJ7G8dgWWgbOv76Lpgs61e4nZPJZAxhwdUysoa15f2nf8vg9JSjtfyeotspM1yhtG0HsFxVPmzH2oWkTr7vmSv8vqonwEKZp6gQanlrWvPR--nOsDFjZIQfJGTvhiavkprmitKsoj7ASXe3-BIYUZsue6w/s3840/Alec%20Falconer%20memorial.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh64hq8LeQorm9S83VV40yabNcHBgz5CSy8mJ7G8dgWWgbOv76Lpgs61e4nZPJZAxhwdUysoa15f2nf8vg9JSjtfyeotspM1yhtG0HsFxVPmzH2oWkTr7vmSv8vqonwEKZp6gQanlrWvPR--nOsDFjZIQfJGTvhiavkprmitKsoj7ASXe3-BIYUZsue6w/w640-h480/Alec%20Falconer%20memorial.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The reason I wanted to try out the half wave end fed was because I am undertaking a solo trip to the German DM/RP DM/HE and Luxembourg SOTA regions in May. Without a fellow operator with me (of late this is usually <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/gi4onl">@GI4ONL</a>) I was worried that if my KX3 lets me down or my link dipole breaks beyond an easy repair, I will have substitutes by way of my YouKIts HB-1B and a half wave end fed antenna.</span></p></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So a few weeks ago I sourced a 49:1 balun rated at 50 watts made by G4ICD (<a href="http://www.rfcomms.co.uk/">www.rfcomms.co.uk <span class="badge badge-notification clicks" title="1 click">1</span></a>). This was secondhand on eBay and cost £15. Its quite well made - the internal components are potted and the connector is a good quality N type. The radiating wire fits into a spring connection and I have a strainer fitted which can be pegged into the ground or be left floating a foot or two above ground in mid-air. I resonated a 67 feet length of wire in my garden for optimum SWR around 7050 KHz and shortened this slightly to get the resonance as good as I could on that frequency. The SWR on 20m,15m and 10m was well under 2:1 over a wide bandwidth on all three bands. On 30m as expected, the SWR was around 8:1. I fitted a link at an appropriate point for 30m operation. This is easy to reach from ground level when the HWEF is mounted on a 5m pole. I also found that with the 30m link open the SWR on 18 MHz was a very usable 1.5 - 2:1. I used no counterpoise, just a 6m length of RG-58CU coaxial cable to the radio. (I use thinner RG-178 on my resonant dipole). The antenna is resonant on six bands therefore without needing an ATU.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On Wednesday I headed up <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/G/TW-002" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G/TW-002</a> - one of the nearest summits to where I live, and my favourite out of the three TW summits in the Cleveland Hills which I visit every year.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here are a few photos of the antenna and parts of it on the summit. I configured this as an inverted L fed at ground level, no counterpoise, just reliance on the 6m length of coax braid in the feedline. I tied off the far end to a stunted tree on the moor at a height of around 1m above ground.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Half wave end fed on 5m pole" data-base62-sha1="zZJVtTSuydiegJUcneZvtULvCRs" data-dominant-color="596980" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/f/c/fc46c2cbe96ca3bde33a3795343c61e9444bfc42_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/f/c/fc46c2cbe96ca3bde33a3795343c61e9444bfc42_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/f/c/fc46c2cbe96ca3bde33a3795343c61e9444bfc42_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/f/c/fc46c2cbe96ca3bde33a3795343c61e9444bfc42_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" style="aspect-ratio: 666 / 500; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="666" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Half Wave end fed 20m long on 5m fishing pole<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Half wave end fed tie off point" data-base62-sha1="5IVKpxFd3A5DeXu2Zq1eoLVZ0DO" data-dominant-color="807F7D" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/2/8/281f1bc9f9fa385e0a5a49a0a46a315319de906c_2_375x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/2/8/281f1bc9f9fa385e0a5a49a0a46a315319de906c_2_375x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/2/8/281f1bc9f9fa385e0a5a49a0a46a315319de906c_2_562x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/2/8/281f1bc9f9fa385e0a5a49a0a46a315319de906c_2_750x1000.jpeg 2x" style="aspect-ratio: 375 / 500; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="375" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">HWEF feed point - 49:1 balun at ground level</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/ce9873eb5e5862e125a934c23619065111b22a1d" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/c/e/ce9873eb5e5862e125a934c23619065111b22a1d.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="30m link on half wave end fed"><img alt="30m link on half wave end fed" data-base62-sha1="ttCZe9hgXJIq0A86tBY7Z1VOVQ1" data-dominant-color="838079" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/e/ce9873eb5e5862e125a934c23619065111b22a1d_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/e/ce9873eb5e5862e125a934c23619065111b22a1d_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/e/ce9873eb5e5862e125a934c23619065111b22a1d_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/e/ce9873eb5e5862e125a934c23619065111b22a1d_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" style="aspect-ratio: 666 / 500;" width="666" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">30m link on antenna wire - using a Spiderbeam insulator as a former for the link</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/e51b602eaa81701a02865446cb89ac5a04c1d0b2" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/e/5/e51b602eaa81701a02865446cb89ac5a04c1d0b2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="HB-1B"><img alt="HB-1B" data-base62-sha1="wGLZyNVRL5jRrk4scTTXllHWp1g" data-dominant-color="625B4F" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/e/5/e51b602eaa81701a02865446cb89ac5a04c1d0b2_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/e/5/e51b602eaa81701a02865446cb89ac5a04c1d0b2_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/e/5/e51b602eaa81701a02865446cb89ac5a04c1d0b2_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/e/5/e51b602eaa81701a02865446cb89ac5a04c1d0b2_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" style="aspect-ratio: 666 / 500;" width="666" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My YouKits HB-1B Palm key - battery - earbuds - logbook & pencil</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><br /></div><div class="lightbox-wrapper" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Despite my doubts about the half wave end fed, I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised. I wasn’t using my Elecraft KX3 running 10 watts with it’s superb receiver and filtering. Instead I used an inferior 10 year old Chinese made YouKits HB-1B running 4-5 watts depending on the band used. I operated on 40/30/20 metres for a period of 45 minutes and made 37 CW contacts, all were with EU stations and included 5 Summit to Summit contacts with stations who called me (Thank you <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/hb9bin">@HB9BIN</a>, <span class="mention">@F</span>/DL6GCA/P, <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/ik2ley">@IK2LEY</a>, <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/hb9cev">@HB9CEV</a>, <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/hb9bqu">@HB9BQU</a>).</span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">1119z-1134z 40m 18 Qs</b></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1138z-1146z 30m 6 Qs</b></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1148z-1204z 20m 13 Qs</b></div></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I didn’t try the half wave EF on any other bands.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So am I a convert to the half wave end fed? I would say not yet, but it’s a great tool to have in the cupboard and I will definately be using it again!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Point of note - an aside to the thread - I did not work <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/oe6gnd">@OE6GND</a> during this activation. Although he did claim a chaser QSO. Gerhard clearly couldn’t hear me. He called over the top of Art <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/hb9cev">@HB9CEV</a>/P twice when I was in S2S QSO. I called him out in my response to Art sending “SRI ART QRM FM OE6GND” unfortunately Gerhard took this to mean he had a QSO and wished me 73. Reports were not exchanged and the QSO was not logged. If Gerhard had called me later, correctly, I would have been happy to work him, but he didn’t.</span></p>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-12887517391628484162022-12-02T23:59:00.004+00:002022-12-30T09:57:22.933+00:00Final activation in Fuerteventura EA8/FU-008 Montaña de la Muda - 689m<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My plan was to activate two Fuerteventuran summits on 2nd December, but I ended up settling for one very wet activation instead.</span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I arrived at the parking place for <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/EA8/FU-017" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EA8/FU-017</a>
at 0730z in terrible weather. Weighing matters up my second planned
summit seemed a better option in such conditions, so I drove for around
20 minutes to reach a parking place for <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/EA8/FU-008" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EA8/FU-008</a>,
which Victor GI4ONL had told me about after his previous visit. The last 400m of the unpaved road up
to a good turning point was rough, but good enough to get traction from
the Citroen at low speed.</span></span></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My GPX Track:</span></span></div>
<p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/fbaa182c4cd9a92b56deaf081f58d6bd5b0e4baa" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/f/b/fbaa182c4cd9a92b56deaf081f58d6bd5b0e4baa.png" title="ScreenHunter 28"><img alt="ScreenHunter 28" data-base62-sha1="zUkgMBGvYxB9X3lWSF2zutEqNV8" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/f/b/fbaa182c4cd9a92b56deaf081f58d6bd5b0e4baa_2_10x10.png" height="405" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/f/b/fbaa182c4cd9a92b56deaf081f58d6bd5b0e4baa_2_690x405.png" width="690" /></a></div><p></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Parking Place:</span></span></div>
<p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/87c91c34084280d7b4811fccf7df3a4271fef98e" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/8/7/87c91c34084280d7b4811fccf7df3a4271fef98e.jpeg" title="FU-008-1"><img alt="FU-008-1" data-base62-sha1="jndkLYhgHCNUWpADFjHH6QGQc7I" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/8/7/87c91c34084280d7b4811fccf7df3a4271fef98e_2_10x10.png" height="500" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/8/7/87c91c34084280d7b4811fccf7df3a4271fef98e_2_666x500.jpeg" width="666" /></a></div><p></p>
<p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/d5edad16694e5aaef2e9ca86e212ae21ea107050" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/d/5/d5edad16694e5aaef2e9ca86e212ae21ea107050.jpeg" title="FU-008-13"><img alt="FU-008-13" data-base62-sha1="uwuV2i7nwNRyn8CWdAkxkBJ3ZjG" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/d/5/d5edad16694e5aaef2e9ca86e212ae21ea107050_2_10x10.png" height="500" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/d/5/d5edad16694e5aaef2e9ca86e212ae21ea107050_2_375x500.jpeg" width="375" /></a></div><p></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Car park shown above after the rain and mist cleared when I returned after my activation.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Waymarker for the Camino route that passes over the summit:</span></span></div>
<p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/6e06391ad741eeacee5571b4106309a54c335392" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/6/e/6e06391ad741eeacee5571b4106309a54c335392.jpeg" title="FU-008-12"><img alt="FU-008-12" data-base62-sha1="fHjQZ6DkeQCYNr1wCzmifPyCiFc" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/6/e/6e06391ad741eeacee5571b4106309a54c335392_2_10x10.png" height="500" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/6/e/6e06391ad741eeacee5571b4106309a54c335392_2_666x500.jpeg" width="666" /></a></div><p></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Undriveable track up to the military comms site:</span></span></div>
<p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/1d5d64ae1a2f050f2c4d65a67697827a6cad1edb" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/1/d/1d5d64ae1a2f050f2c4d65a67697827a6cad1edb.jpeg" title="FU-008-2"><img alt="FU-008-2" data-base62-sha1="4bLWkxb9YR4Rsqa2jKIu1OcPvpF" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/1/d/1d5d64ae1a2f050f2c4d65a67697827a6cad1edb_2_10x10.png" height="500" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/1/d/1d5d64ae1a2f050f2c4d65a67697827a6cad1edb_2_666x500.jpeg" width="666" /></a></div><p></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bank of three low VHF log periodics on the military comms site below the summit:</span></span></div>
<p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/f58fc199e734215611e695fdb0c45259c61ba009" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/f/5/f58fc199e734215611e695fdb0c45259c61ba009.jpeg" title="FU-008-10"><img alt="FU-008-10" data-base62-sha1="z2kYy6IHsufVLYr1C9JBjDWu6k9" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/f/5/f58fc199e734215611e695fdb0c45259c61ba009_2_10x10.png" height="500" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/f/5/f58fc199e734215611e695fdb0c45259c61ba009_2_666x500.jpeg" width="666" /></a></div><p></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A cable duct and a climbing rope to a microwave link further up the
mountain. I used the climbing rope as an aid coming down as I had no
walking poles on this trip:</span></span></div>
<p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/e325ba6db1a29b5feb82d8ef99633c75db8a081d" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/e/3/e325ba6db1a29b5feb82d8ef99633c75db8a081d.jpeg" title="FU-008-8"><img alt="FU-008-8" data-base62-sha1="wprdwCVjrBDSuBrZHWpuowQQP2R" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/e/3/e325ba6db1a29b5feb82d8ef99633c75db8a081d_2_10x10.png" height="500" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/e/3/e325ba6db1a29b5feb82d8ef99633c75db8a081d_2_666x500.jpeg" width="666" /></a></div><p></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Microwave link at stone hut just below the summit, note the climbing rope is well fixed into the rock:</span></span></div>
<p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/c64bc3bdcb0f8103b3afe8070d090c30cef2bb4d" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/c/6/c64bc3bdcb0f8103b3afe8070d090c30cef2bb4d.jpeg" title="FU-008-5"><img alt="FU-008-5" data-base62-sha1="sicRzydUKhEVmii5AUpvVNFLOAl" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/6/c64bc3bdcb0f8103b3afe8070d090c30cef2bb4d_2_10x10.png" height="500" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/6/c64bc3bdcb0f8103b3afe8070d090c30cef2bb4d_2_666x500.jpeg" width="666" /></a></div><p></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The operating position at the eroded trig point, with the KX3 inside the rucksack to protect it from the rain whilst operating:</span></span></div>
<p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/45e2e54e1416cc5274573335873995e1cfe8de66" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/4/5/45e2e54e1416cc5274573335873995e1cfe8de66.jpeg" title="FU-008-6"><img alt="FU-008-6" data-base62-sha1="9Yf4aIBGAuglsmSQ9WKa4WBkdIq" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/4/5/45e2e54e1416cc5274573335873995e1cfe8de66_2_10x10.png" height="500" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/4/5/45e2e54e1416cc5274573335873995e1cfe8de66_2_666x500.jpeg" width="666" /></a></div><p></p>
<p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/b31ec25aee53ba8f43eef03c592e538ed74b3a23" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/b/3/b31ec25aee53ba8f43eef03c592e538ed74b3a23.jpeg" title="FU-008-7"><img alt="FU-008-7" data-base62-sha1="pyzmQu460WXaAmiFHbkzb2jiy8b" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/b/3/b31ec25aee53ba8f43eef03c592e538ed74b3a23_2_10x10.png" height="500" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/b/3/b31ec25aee53ba8f43eef03c592e538ed74b3a23_2_375x500.jpeg" width="375" /></a></div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Apologies for the rubber stamp type no name CW operation today, which was
down to the weather, it led to a good rate though. The 44 Flora & Fauna crowd found
me again, but the operating today was much improved than my last
session.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">74 completed QSOs on 20m in dire weather with the radio in the neck
of my rucksack - so I was very pleased with the number of contacts
completed, which included S2S QSOs with Ben <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/gw4bml">@GW4BML</a> on <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/G/WB-022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G/WB-022</a> and operating couple Ioan <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/yo5ia">@YO5IA</a> and Mihaela <span class="mention">@YO5MCM</span> on <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/YO/MC-246" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YO/MC-246</a>.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I was far to wet to contemplate going back to the start point for <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/EA8/FU-017" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EA8/FU-017</a>, so with the weather uncertain, I drove back to the holiday complex for a
cuppa and Twix, followed later by a nice all inclusive lunch!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks to all chasers for being brief today and filling up my log
book in a most satisfying way! No more ops from me on this holiday in
Fuerteventura. It is most unlikely that I will ever return there, as I do not like the barren volcanic terrain. <br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">73 Phil EA8/G4OBK/P</span></span></p>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-31494269090385623632022-11-30T22:30:00.002+00:002022-12-27T22:24:40.284+00:00More activations in Fuerteventura: Montana del Arena & Montana de Caima<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I climbed two more summits in Fuerteventura on 30th November 2022. There were no people here as they weren’t Caldera summits. I only worked one member of the North Yorkshire SOTA Association on my second summit <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/EA8/FU-036" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EA8/FU-036</a>. This was Pete M0HQO who lives less than half a mile from my home QTH in Pickering! 20m CW was the band and mode. I had many contacts on both summits - 77 on <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/EA8/FU-031" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EA8/FU-031</a> all on 20m, and 78 Qs from <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/EA8/FU-036" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EA8/FU-036</a>. The Flora Fauna 44 crowd found me on both summits I reckon. So many blank names in my Saisie SOTA name file to bother filling in names from QRZ! As many CW operators will know, the operating standards of some of the FF operators leave a lot to be desired. I operate full break in and there were lots of them transmitting at the same time as I was. I only black listed one - he isn’t a SOTA guy - ON5GM - it took me over 2 minutes to actually work the chaser station I was calling thanks to him. He sent me his 73s but he isn’t in my log…</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The photos I took aren’t so good. I had an early start so I could get back to the holiday village for my dinner and activate two summits. Both summits took around 30 minutes each to climb. <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/EA8/FU-031" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EA8/FU-031</a> was more unstable ground, like walking up a snow slope, or on crumbly coking coal. <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/EA8/FU-036" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EA8/FU-036</a> was much more stable to walk on and I could actually get a couple of tent pegs driven in to the ground to support my dipole. 15m band was pretty good on the second summit <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/EA8/FU-036" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EA8/FU-036</a> (VE2JCW worked on 15m CW), but clearing the 44 ers on <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/EA8/FU-031" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EA8/FU-031</a> held me on 20m for a long time from my allotted period, so when it eventually dried up on 20m SSB I packed up. I got plenty of S2S Qs on the second summit, and Fabio IK2LEY/P was worked S2S on both. I am having a (Juerg HB9BIN style) “lady day” tomorrow and hope to activate another two in one session on Friday morning, which will be my only day left operating before we go home on Sunday. Thank you to Victor <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/gi4onl">@GI4ONL</a> for two good GPX tracks for todays walking, both summits I believe, where he was the first activator.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Five pics on and around Montana del Arena <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/EA8/FU-031" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EA8/FU-031</a>, best I could do, I did not use the toilet / bidet on the way back to the car!</span></p><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/b75f66708f6fe3cea9001482d3a21d392f40fc0c" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/b/7/b75f66708f6fe3cea9001482d3a21d392f40fc0c.jpeg" title="FU-031-1"><img alt="FU-031-1" data-base62-sha1="qabLNEwo0yUSY3jrYlXIm0LptJa" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/b/7/b75f66708f6fe3cea9001482d3a21d392f40fc0c_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/b/7/b75f66708f6fe3cea9001482d3a21d392f40fc0c_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/b/7/b75f66708f6fe3cea9001482d3a21d392f40fc0c_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/b/7/b75f66708f6fe3cea9001482d3a21d392f40fc0c_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/b/7/b75f66708f6fe3cea9001482d3a21d392f40fc0c_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" width="666" /><div class="meta"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon"><use href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/g4obk-now-septuagenarian/30879/63#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><img alt="FU-031-2" data-base62-sha1="hhlAnZP2VNBJ3uY7mXRNiVEema3" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/7/9/791afbe7bc81dca7e53fdc3110f5ccc17df440b7_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/7/9/791afbe7bc81dca7e53fdc3110f5ccc17df440b7_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/7/9/791afbe7bc81dca7e53fdc3110f5ccc17df440b7_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/7/9/791afbe7bc81dca7e53fdc3110f5ccc17df440b7_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/7/9/791afbe7bc81dca7e53fdc3110f5ccc17df440b7_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" width="666" /><div class="meta"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon"><use href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/g4obk-now-septuagenarian/30879/63#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></div><p></p><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><img alt="FU-031-3" data-base62-sha1="rLFnKYwulEiZnOSHLoPbDDK5c5r" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/2/c29e1cbc0c4cfe7fbf0916bc368251c5fe01c999_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/2/c29e1cbc0c4cfe7fbf0916bc368251c5fe01c999_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/2/c29e1cbc0c4cfe7fbf0916bc368251c5fe01c999_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/2/c29e1cbc0c4cfe7fbf0916bc368251c5fe01c999_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/2/c29e1cbc0c4cfe7fbf0916bc368251c5fe01c999_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" width="666" /><div class="meta"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon"><use href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/g4obk-now-septuagenarian/30879/63#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></div><p></p><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/35ed82b98f72766a62e4234e949276348c9e7304" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/3/5/35ed82b98f72766a62e4234e949276348c9e7304.jpeg" title="FU-031-7"><img alt="FU-031-7" data-base62-sha1="7H4ay1uMxBPBhmSQQJWuvXh4VAo" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/3/5/35ed82b98f72766a62e4234e949276348c9e7304_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/3/5/35ed82b98f72766a62e4234e949276348c9e7304_2_375x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/3/5/35ed82b98f72766a62e4234e949276348c9e7304_2_375x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/3/5/35ed82b98f72766a62e4234e949276348c9e7304_2_562x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/3/5/35ed82b98f72766a62e4234e949276348c9e7304_2_750x1000.jpeg 2x" width="375" /><div class="meta"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon"><use href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/g4obk-now-septuagenarian/30879/63#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/eea269cdc90797d4903b1595338fbd7347dcbbe5" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/e/e/eea269cdc90797d4903b1595338fbd7347dcbbe5.jpeg" title="FU-031-10"><img alt="FU-031-10" data-base62-sha1="y33BCJbRHwU4tIzMkjqsLPEUXo9" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/e/e/eea269cdc90797d4903b1595338fbd7347dcbbe5_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/e/e/eea269cdc90797d4903b1595338fbd7347dcbbe5_2_375x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/e/e/eea269cdc90797d4903b1595338fbd7347dcbbe5_2_375x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/e/e/eea269cdc90797d4903b1595338fbd7347dcbbe5_2_562x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/e/e/eea269cdc90797d4903b1595338fbd7347dcbbe5_2_750x1000.jpeg 2x" width="375" /></a></div><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><br /></div><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The next photo's were taken on and around EA8/FU-036 Montana de Caima:</span></div><div class="meta"><br /></div></div><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/94b03c47f0f06e5f2e125607fe4694bda23575d3" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/9/4/94b03c47f0f06e5f2e125607fe4694bda23575d3.jpeg" title="FU-036-2"><img alt="FU-036-2" data-base62-sha1="ldmfoNc9AR71AXTI72HnIlV52Dh" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/9/4/94b03c47f0f06e5f2e125607fe4694bda23575d3_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/9/4/94b03c47f0f06e5f2e125607fe4694bda23575d3_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/9/4/94b03c47f0f06e5f2e125607fe4694bda23575d3_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/9/4/94b03c47f0f06e5f2e125607fe4694bda23575d3_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/9/4/94b03c47f0f06e5f2e125607fe4694bda23575d3_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" width="666" /><div class="meta"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon"><use href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/g4obk-now-septuagenarian/30879/63#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><img alt="FU-036-3" data-base62-sha1="vqkGQlxpXi5oGrhOs95xGn9UD7g" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/d/c/dc3d722fd44ff6c66e361e3b0dd4418bf1a9c04e_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/d/c/dc3d722fd44ff6c66e361e3b0dd4418bf1a9c04e_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/d/c/dc3d722fd44ff6c66e361e3b0dd4418bf1a9c04e_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/d/c/dc3d722fd44ff6c66e361e3b0dd4418bf1a9c04e_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/d/c/dc3d722fd44ff6c66e361e3b0dd4418bf1a9c04e_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" width="666" /><div class="meta"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon"><use href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/g4obk-now-septuagenarian/30879/63#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></div><p></p><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/aea8742549a6e226659d927213f9ec604077364f" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/a/e/aea8742549a6e226659d927213f9ec604077364f.jpeg" title="FU-036-4"><img alt="FU-036-4" data-base62-sha1="oV5ZoseRft7gI1gdPxkQ5mn73zh" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/a/e/aea8742549a6e226659d927213f9ec604077364f_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/a/e/aea8742549a6e226659d927213f9ec604077364f_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/a/e/aea8742549a6e226659d927213f9ec604077364f_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/a/e/aea8742549a6e226659d927213f9ec604077364f_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/a/e/aea8742549a6e226659d927213f9ec604077364f_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" width="666" /><div class="meta"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon"><use href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/g4obk-now-septuagenarian/30879/63#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/9740946ee41bb8544debe4e49552230ee574b862" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/9/7/9740946ee41bb8544debe4e49552230ee574b862.jpeg" title="FU-036-6"><img alt="FU-036-6" data-base62-sha1="lA2suVjkcjOKitkeIvcM8AVWfN8" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/9/7/9740946ee41bb8544debe4e49552230ee574b862_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/9/7/9740946ee41bb8544debe4e49552230ee574b862_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/9/7/9740946ee41bb8544debe4e49552230ee574b862_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/9/7/9740946ee41bb8544debe4e49552230ee574b862_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/9/7/9740946ee41bb8544debe4e49552230ee574b862_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" width="666" /><div class="meta"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon"><use href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/g4obk-now-septuagenarian/30879/63#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper" style="text-align: center;"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/17b9e28f67d52cb3d52f3272a1d56fd7995b816a" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/1/7/17b9e28f67d52cb3d52f3272a1d56fd7995b816a.jpeg" title="FU-036-7"><img alt="FU-036-7" data-base62-sha1="3nTeNatZ7Of68oE53ycJFMp3pV0" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/1/7/17b9e28f67d52cb3d52f3272a1d56fd7995b816a_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/1/7/17b9e28f67d52cb3d52f3272a1d56fd7995b816a_2_375x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/1/7/17b9e28f67d52cb3d52f3272a1d56fd7995b816a_2_375x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/1/7/17b9e28f67d52cb3d52f3272a1d56fd7995b816a_2_562x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/1/7/17b9e28f67d52cb3d52f3272a1d56fd7995b816a_2_750x1000.jpeg 2x" width="375" /></a></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-9684663994285435542022-11-28T23:59:00.012+00:002022-12-20T22:23:20.479+00:00SOTA Activations on Fuerteventura - EA8/FU-042 Calderon Hondo<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It would have been great to make 70 QSOs on Calderon Hondo this morning, my 70th birthday, but I only made 55 contacts before things dried up. The logs are in. The final QSO was a nice one though, Art HB9CEV/P on 12m CW, the final one of my four S2S contacts, pretty good for a Monday before the Winter Bonus points period starts… Lots of people came up the hill after me, I would not have climbed it if it weren’t for SOTA.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Volcanic craters seem to fascinate some folk, not me! Nasty dusty places. Nowhere to pitch my pole, ground too hard to drive in a tent peg, so I relied on a small cairn I built out of lava rock to support the mast, albeit at a poor angle. KX3 10 watts and a 20/15/10m link dipole made up specially for this holiday. As well as working Art on 12m I also worked Mike G0HIO, using the 15m dipole via the ATU. I plan to take a break tomorrow and go out on Wednesday and Thursday. This time we are on holiday it's not a SOTA Tour.</span></p><div class="cooked"><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/d3637c14a1ffbf74a306e373d5fe174bae8f52e3" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/d/3/d3637c14a1ffbf74a306e373d5fe174bae8f52e3.png" title="ScreenHunter 25"><img alt="ScreenHunter 25" data-base62-sha1="ua1TfSZvtbYl3Dk1xlB9mUtBbkT" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/d/3/d3637c14a1ffbf74a306e373d5fe174bae8f52e3_2_10x10.png" height="304" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/d/3/d3637c14a1ffbf74a306e373d5fe174bae8f52e3_2_690x304.png" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/d/3/d3637c14a1ffbf74a306e373d5fe174bae8f52e3_2_690x304.png, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/d/3/d3637c14a1ffbf74a306e373d5fe174bae8f52e3_2_1035x456.png 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/d/3/d3637c14a1ffbf74a306e373d5fe174bae8f52e3.png 2x" width="690" /><div class="meta"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon"><use href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/g4obk-now-septuagenarian/30879/25#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></a></div><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A few snaps, starting with the parking place. It took me 34 minutes to climb to the highest point, 1.9 km, 242m ascent. I don’t think that’s bad for a 70 years geezer who was diagnosed with heart failure and prostate cancer three years ago...</span></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper" style="text-align: justify;"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/c92913e292dc45d00ea0eaf6edc47dbf894d905f" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/c/9/c92913e292dc45d00ea0eaf6edc47dbf894d905f.jpeg" title="IMG_20221128_093222_387"><img alt="IMG_20221128_093222_387" data-base62-sha1="sHxYLpm7wJEXbg6ajegrQZ3pED5" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/9/c92913e292dc45d00ea0eaf6edc47dbf894d905f_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/9/c92913e292dc45d00ea0eaf6edc47dbf894d905f_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/9/c92913e292dc45d00ea0eaf6edc47dbf894d905f_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/9/c92913e292dc45d00ea0eaf6edc47dbf894d905f_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/c/9/c92913e292dc45d00ea0eaf6edc47dbf894d905f_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" width="666" /><div class="meta"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon"><use href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/g4obk-now-septuagenarian/30879/25#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><img alt="IMG_20221128_093815_400" data-base62-sha1="bhdJblpHV8LfO7Wwa2fzXpkJO2Z" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/4/f/4f0a45be5c17afd23e71372bb88398b2b3859779_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/4/f/4f0a45be5c17afd23e71372bb88398b2b3859779_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/4/f/4f0a45be5c17afd23e71372bb88398b2b3859779_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/4/f/4f0a45be5c17afd23e71372bb88398b2b3859779_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/4/f/4f0a45be5c17afd23e71372bb88398b2b3859779_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" width="666" /><br /></div><p></p><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/7978a40ac802b3ff3a1ee7ebb42ddbd2a33fc41c" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/7/9/7978a40ac802b3ff3a1ee7ebb42ddbd2a33fc41c.jpeg" title="IMG_20221128_100612_383"><img alt="IMG_20221128_100612_383" data-base62-sha1="hkAfeb1O96uK4ALlhqeFc7YU75G" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/7/9/7978a40ac802b3ff3a1ee7ebb42ddbd2a33fc41c_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/7/9/7978a40ac802b3ff3a1ee7ebb42ddbd2a33fc41c_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/7/9/7978a40ac802b3ff3a1ee7ebb42ddbd2a33fc41c_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/7/9/7978a40ac802b3ff3a1ee7ebb42ddbd2a33fc41c_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/7/9/7978a40ac802b3ff3a1ee7ebb42ddbd2a33fc41c_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" width="666" /><br /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/bf662c510be09ad66550fa5a74309445548f5abc" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/b/f/bf662c510be09ad66550fa5a74309445548f5abc.jpeg" title="IMG_20221128_112518_299"><img alt="IMG_20221128_112518_299" data-base62-sha1="rjc6j5026FvbUOkABrHYHnBFmTG" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/b/f/bf662c510be09ad66550fa5a74309445548f5abc_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/b/f/bf662c510be09ad66550fa5a74309445548f5abc_2_666x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/b/f/bf662c510be09ad66550fa5a74309445548f5abc_2_666x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/b/f/bf662c510be09ad66550fa5a74309445548f5abc_2_999x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/b/f/bf662c510be09ad66550fa5a74309445548f5abc_2_1332x1000.jpeg 2x" width="666" /><br /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">The abandoned pushchair was interesting. I saw a couple with a young child on my way around the Calderon on the way down. I guess they will use the pushchair again on the flatter sections on the lower part of the slope on the way back!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/5776c8232976bc4925b95dbedc7a33be7c9be7b5" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/5/7/5776c8232976bc4925b95dbedc7a33be7c9be7b5.jpeg" title="IMG_20221128_122525_325"><img alt="IMG_20221128_122525_325" data-base62-sha1="ctK1MrSHCo8T7dXMJAJOVZvyFr7" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/5/7/5776c8232976bc4925b95dbedc7a33be7c9be7b5_2_10x10.png" height="500" loading="lazy" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/5/7/5776c8232976bc4925b95dbedc7a33be7c9be7b5_2_375x500.jpeg" srcset="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/5/7/5776c8232976bc4925b95dbedc7a33be7c9be7b5_2_375x500.jpeg, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/5/7/5776c8232976bc4925b95dbedc7a33be7c9be7b5_2_562x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/5/7/5776c8232976bc4925b95dbedc7a33be7c9be7b5_2_750x1000.jpeg 2x" width="375" /></a></div></div></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-19835312978303275912022-09-22T23:59:00.002+01:002022-11-20T15:47:41.337+00:00FL/NO-009 Roc'h Trududon and FL/NO-022 Roc'h Toullaëron a nice pair<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">After activating several "drive on summits" in the north of France between the Eurotunnel and Britanny we left the Cote D’Amor area of Brittany and ventured into Finistere for two summits that were worth blogging. <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/FL/NO-009" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FL/NO-009</a>
is the only 2 point summit on this trip so far. We walked about 500m to
a way-marker post and set up well away from the TV transmitter, 56 QSOs
all told it was busy:</span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/FL/NO-009" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FL/NO-009</a>:</span></span></p>
<p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/4593db2cceac0fd5eb0da31069a9017a314884f2" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/4/5/4593db2cceac0fd5eb0da31069a9017a314884f2.jpeg" title="IMG_20220922_113403293"><img alt="IMG_20220922_113403293" data-base62-sha1="9VvJ002R6wzSGTXw2goC3mjvMNs" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/4/5/4593db2cceac0fd5eb0da31069a9017a314884f2_2_10x10.png" height="500" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/4/5/4593db2cceac0fd5eb0da31069a9017a314884f2_2_666x500.jpeg" width="666" /></a></div><p></p>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/FL/NO-022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FL/NO-022</a></span></span></div>
<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">XYL Judy offered to carry TWO folding camping chairs on the one Km walk to <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/FL/NO-022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FL/NO-022</a>, so long as I carried the picnic. It was a fair deal. I set up in the woodland by the trig point (pictured for <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/on4up">@ON4UP</a>
- I know Peter likes finding, looking (and sometimes kissing) these
small trig points - similar to the ones found in his country). I
worked <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/ve2jcw">@VE2JCW</a> (20m CW) and <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/ve1wt">@VE1WT</a>
(20m SSB), many EU stations and a few Ukrainian stations which is
always good, given the current situation. For the first time I operated
from a camping chair (Luc <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/on7dq">@ON7DQ</a>
style but without the shelf and umbrella!). I rested the KX3 on my
thighs and it worked out really comfortable compared to the usual
position of sitting on the ground on a sitmat. I got 46 QSOs - so that
gave me exactly 100 QSOs for the day. Best QSO was working Roger <a class="mention" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/u/f5lkw">@F5LKW</a> F5LKW/P on <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/FL/NO-074" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FL/NO-074</a>. I hadn’t chased the summit before - I had planned to go there to activate <a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/FL/NO-074" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FL/NO-074</a> for the complete on Saturday on our way back across the top of France. The GPX tracks we used to get to both activation points are live on the SMP and SOTLAS. <br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="linkify-word no-track-link" href="https://summits.sota.org.uk/summit/FL/NO-022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FL/NO-022</a>:</span></span></p>
<p></p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" data-download-href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/d2201b6b19cba9b66171a47bce140ca4ae1b9c85" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/original/3X/d/2/d2201b6b19cba9b66171a47bce140ca4ae1b9c85.jpeg" title="IMG_20220922_130058659"><img alt="IMG_20220922_130058659" data-base62-sha1="tYR3AJXr9hb0mHMpXuvPJNnAaLb" data-small-upload="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/d/2/d2201b6b19cba9b66171a47bce140ca4ae1b9c85_2_10x10.png" height="500" src="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/uploads/db9433/optimized/3X/d/2/d2201b6b19cba9b66171a47bce140ca4ae1b9c85_2_666x500.jpeg" width="666" /></a></div><p></p>
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Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-7775060251307131192022-07-30T22:00:00.002+01:002022-08-17T08:41:35.561+01:00SOTA Tour - Czech & Bavaria June 2022 Part 1<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In late June I embarked on a twelve day intensive SOTA tour from Prague, activating en-route across the west side of Czech Republic to Munich, south to Friedrichshafen and then back to Prague via the Bayern area. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I was accompanied on this road trip with my friend Victor Mitchell, who holds the callsign GI4ONL. </span></span>We attended the "Ham Radio" convention at the enormous exhibition centre there, on Lake Constance, (Bodensee). When operating in the Czech Republic as well as using our own callsigns OK8CDX and OK8VM, we were permitted to use the special callsign OL15SOTA, thanks to Mirek OK1CYC. <br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There were difficulties with transport on this 2022 summer tour caused by rail strikes and airlines cancelling our pre-booked flights, however we were not impacted either by delays at the airports or in excessive car hire fees charged by our usual provider in Prague, Ren+plus, low cost car rental. <br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We activated 36 summits on this tour in the Czech and the German Alpine and German Low Mountains Associations. Many of the summits were non-descript and in featureless woodland, however several were outstanding and are worth writing about. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My flight to Prague was on Tuesday 21 June from Manchester, however there was a rail strike that day so I travelled to Manchester by train on Monday 20 June and stayed in a city hotel overnight, using the Metro Tram to convey me to the airport on Tuesday morning. There were no delays at the airport and I easily passed through security with the radio gear and batteries etc. Some hardware such as my wire antenna and pole were packed into the suitcase and carried in the hold. The padlock on my suitcase mysteriously dissapeared during the flight, however the contents of my suitcase, which included a Thinkpad laptop were still there when I opened it up after my journey....<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjce2BxtZu7PCOOaE9-BtIYi97oK37Rq1AtvIYdV-fP4mxamY9Yp8xmhYZiwwXPFVA_w_w6a3c26M17Eqqh-WyhshcoQF7ZaHuJpFOpBbSwFWthwnjTRPoBFXbMXQGcE7VNf3U_4yA3keJAu6J4MuxD4xK0NIOC1qu0rl5Hr1zilj8zgQfXWyLwWBjnJA/s3840/Kia%20Ceed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjce2BxtZu7PCOOaE9-BtIYi97oK37Rq1AtvIYdV-fP4mxamY9Yp8xmhYZiwwXPFVA_w_w6a3c26M17Eqqh-WyhshcoQF7ZaHuJpFOpBbSwFWthwnjTRPoBFXbMXQGcE7VNf3U_4yA3keJAu6J4MuxD4xK0NIOC1qu0rl5Hr1zilj8zgQfXWyLwWBjnJA/w640-h480/Kia%20Ceed.jpg" title="KIa Ceed - Prague Airport" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: large;">Our Kia Ceed hire car - Prague airport</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I had time to spare at Prague, arriving at 4.00pm and then awaiting the arrival of Victor from Dublin at 9.00pm. However I was able to fill my time by signing up and paying for the hire car, an almost new Kia Ceed estate, before I enjoyed a beer and some KFC from the fast food outlet within the airport. Victor arrived almost on time, and he drove for around 25 miles in the direction of Germany to our first night hotel at </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="LrzXr">Krušovice. </span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="LrzXr">The first activation took place next morning, 22 June, on the six point OK/PL-090 Vici Hora, where I used the special callsign OL15SOTA. Mine was the 30th activation of this summit. By around lunchtime we entered Germany, activating DM/BM-323 Entenbuhl and then the drive on summit, DM/BM-321 Fahrenberg, on our way to our pre-booked Bavarian Gasthaus in a village not far from Munich. <br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="LrzXr">Next day, Thursday, we drove to Friedrichshafen, activating three summits on the way in the Allgau Alpine area. Friday morning we drove to the Messe for the Ham Radio event and the first person I met before I went inside was my friend Luc ON7DQ from Belgium, thank you to Luc's YL for allowing me to use her photo:</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2dkVm29MukXqMBd_dvPm7hYFAdQWiy8aw7zPuz3b9x4Ot0tVPUuMY7I2xGmHGcCUWFab0OcphlQJRKUNQCcEOe9coUkh9CVwHBqHT6rrXMonuBVtht2gjAwClF-exps3Z6HdIeCnJAI2hj9m4ouwfIzdL-2X2TsqcoTM3t3ypwhmUlPUkC5hNOcS5zg/s1600/Luc%20ON7DQ%20Phil%20G4OBK%20Friedrichshafen.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2dkVm29MukXqMBd_dvPm7hYFAdQWiy8aw7zPuz3b9x4Ot0tVPUuMY7I2xGmHGcCUWFab0OcphlQJRKUNQCcEOe9coUkh9CVwHBqHT6rrXMonuBVtht2gjAwClF-exps3Z6HdIeCnJAI2hj9m4ouwfIzdL-2X2TsqcoTM3t3ypwhmUlPUkC5hNOcS5zg/w640-h480/Luc%20ON7DQ%20Phil%20G4OBK%20Friedrichshafen.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Victor and I attended the show on Friday and Saturday, which was not so good as many of the larger traders, such as Yaesu and Kenwood, who did not attend. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The high point of the
show was meeting the many SOTA activators and chasers and my friends in
Chiltern DX Club where I helped man the club stand. </span></span>We were ready to leave by mid afternoon on Saturday though and restart our SOTA Tour by returning immediately to the hilly Allgau area. We had time to activate Altringenberg DL/AL-272 and Laubenberg DL/AL-273 before reaching our Gasthaus on Saturday evening at Isny im Allgau. We had a "good drink" shall we say, that night - enhanced by a free glass of Schnapps!<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The next day we got on with the job and activated four summits in the Allgau before reaching the massive DM/BM Bayerne Mittelgebirge area where SOTA points are easily earned from the many wooded summits. Our final day in the Allgau was very hot, but early morning it was a delight to be activating the Auf dem Falken (Also known as Falkenstein) DL/AL-271, which turned out to be a wooded ridge and just 1 Km to the summit where Victor found himself on the edge of a fenced off large drop, while I continued on the ridge for 500m to find an area in the woodland clear enough to spread out my 40m link dipole without fouling the trees. Victor also used a dipole and could get sufficent length out on the precipice for 30m band operation. Parking was at 47.593 10.300, track is uploaded to SMP and SOTL.AS: <br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE52emWAEW8IrwvSoii3nAyH2E_Nls3v-v0kJHNb0_30wROFUcBfSJKTso1uj4Oc_qObEWvc6zWm7v3pGAtZqZDexMfJ2m0q5K1-j6uU3vAKCgpsBcb9Da2usOW8-dOg3Bp5bGRUlX6ORji7NE7sW4pc1f1x5NL2BqFMZbRmlQu4uaxH_kckoelPpVgw/s4608/DL-AL-271-2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE52emWAEW8IrwvSoii3nAyH2E_Nls3v-v0kJHNb0_30wROFUcBfSJKTso1uj4Oc_qObEWvc6zWm7v3pGAtZqZDexMfJ2m0q5K1-j6uU3vAKCgpsBcb9Da2usOW8-dOg3Bp5bGRUlX6ORji7NE7sW4pc1f1x5NL2BqFMZbRmlQu4uaxH_kckoelPpVgw/w640-h480/DL-AL-271-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Victor's view from DL/AL-271 was better than mine....</span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="LrzXr"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9hz8xip1uVSmiGE78lpyFsd0ThbdwWh4nH_f6fFAe4CR0jUwIqzclWmoiH5VkayRn_rXfvLwxqxwJgfrAvXKubQIO1ejYqc2fnUWln5VeaKq9-OJFesWh-7pxJ4bxeksWNjKRcXoaJmyyXlWDVbwRXaVnjGztpIYkSWxH15EKIjBoQMwZ_rKlAZ7Cyg/s4608/DL-AL-271-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9hz8xip1uVSmiGE78lpyFsd0ThbdwWh4nH_f6fFAe4CR0jUwIqzclWmoiH5VkayRn_rXfvLwxqxwJgfrAvXKubQIO1ejYqc2fnUWln5VeaKq9-OJFesWh-7pxJ4bxeksWNjKRcXoaJmyyXlWDVbwRXaVnjGztpIYkSWxH15EKIjBoQMwZ_rKlAZ7Cyg/w640-h480/DL-AL-271-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Victor DL/G4ONL/P ready to leave DL/AL-271</span></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqVYWENK1iT8cmU8lrTJ7XVm3NKIs_Ugdt6MQzroaC6L96hhZpmKgwQVzc9bVJQHQ_6mGKi-bY5_7_THHEp09oD5OOCYiV5vTVQPTzP-f7QcLtEN58EzxE6-F90GYyPCtp16YIzfWBy_YCwmHmMThccKd6OtXXb9xb9mh0zMXf2l4j8ZsJc0FKuog6Ag/s4608/Good%20lunch%20in%20alm%20on%20DL-AL-171%20with%20band.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqVYWENK1iT8cmU8lrTJ7XVm3NKIs_Ugdt6MQzroaC6L96hhZpmKgwQVzc9bVJQHQ_6mGKi-bY5_7_THHEp09oD5OOCYiV5vTVQPTzP-f7QcLtEN58EzxE6-F90GYyPCtp16YIzfWBy_YCwmHmMThccKd6OtXXb9xb9mh0zMXf2l4j8ZsJc0FKuog6Ag/w640-h480/Good%20lunch%20in%20alm%20on%20DL-AL-171%20with%20band.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This was our Bavarian lunch at the Alm on DL/AL-171 Eisenberg later that Sunday.</span></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The summit was activated by Peter DL/ON4UP/P two weeks later.... </span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We never go directly from Gasthaus to Gasthaus on these SOTA Tours - so to encompass the four activations on this day my Google Timeline shows we drove just 62.9 miles and wallked 8.9 miles climbing the four summits, 12 points earned and 4 SOTA Completes for me:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfoZexHqaTzBDhPLOj_ltGrUt2Pz9mPgKHVghVuD73q_9ZUkmYgiDasm2Y9aBCMRjSpao4Ou0ilXx3Sfw7xQwNCMBusAqhtDsts6lMIypVFMCRgtb6YABzVpgJJ1TXmrSeot0Nfc2wpwfXI2L3SvH43A1vvndFjqXsmLP3nTYPg9MX7ybwQiegjU-JYA/s1142/ScreenHunter%20836.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="1142" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfoZexHqaTzBDhPLOj_ltGrUt2Pz9mPgKHVghVuD73q_9ZUkmYgiDasm2Y9aBCMRjSpao4Ou0ilXx3Sfw7xQwNCMBusAqhtDsts6lMIypVFMCRgtb6YABzVpgJJ1TXmrSeot0Nfc2wpwfXI2L3SvH43A1vvndFjqXsmLP3nTYPg9MX7ybwQiegjU-JYA/w640-h178/ScreenHunter%20836.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://catterblog.blogspot.com/2022/06/sota-tour-czech-bavaria-june-2022-part-2.html" target="_blank"><i><b>Now go to Part 2</b></i></a> and the next thrilling installment!</span></span></p>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-82061568466642167302022-07-30T20:00:00.008+01:002022-08-05T17:33:16.403+01:00SOTA Tour Czech & Bavaria June 2022 - Part 2<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Monday 27th June was a long driving day - 200 miles driven by Victor from a start point hotel at Marktoberdorf. We walked 3 miles all told to garner 22 points on five rather non-descript, but easy to access summits in the Bayern (DM/BM) District towards the end of our journey:</span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DM/BM-378 Sulzbuck (4)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DM/BM-352 Sclupfelberg (4)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DM/BM-217 Buchberg (4)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DM/BM-351 Dillberg (4)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DM/BM-256 Poppberg (6)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We drove for around 150 miles, well beyond Munich, before we reached our first of five summits. DM/BM-378. Google map of our days journey to the village of Lintach, near Amberg:<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdw_GYOhSm_Z2UyBVeFxqjDp5PY_hT5Kq_6Z9VHBaRDwA0s1k9vEvgOmb-mm6C0IQC8ha8n_OGqc9LBouSI7QGN9Cz5xy2ZuSTNXMwL_sXBDlBahMrVYabDUxryT8jexFQBCztODz5CwSbgdVqsTt5D6bPTMp7k_hYq5A02KOKq7Ey-CIq4j0as2GLQg/s830/ScreenHunter%20837.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="590" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdw_GYOhSm_Z2UyBVeFxqjDp5PY_hT5Kq_6Z9VHBaRDwA0s1k9vEvgOmb-mm6C0IQC8ha8n_OGqc9LBouSI7QGN9Cz5xy2ZuSTNXMwL_sXBDlBahMrVYabDUxryT8jexFQBCztODz5CwSbgdVqsTt5D6bPTMp7k_hYq5A02KOKq7Ey-CIq4j0as2GLQg/w454-h640/ScreenHunter%20837.jpg" width="454" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When we arrived at our Gasthaus in Lintach the attached restaurant we thought was open was closed - the fraulein proprietor said this was "due to Corona". It hadn't re-opened since the start of the crisis, so we had no choice but to take a shower and then drive back to Amberg where we found something to eat in a restaurant on the edge of a park. It wasn't so good, unlike the previous meals we had enjoyed in Germany. <br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tuesday 27 June was a far more interesting day, when we travelled to Gasthaus Fidelis in the village of Grafenweisen where we stayed for three nights. This was a perfect location. Grafenweisen is centred in the DM/BM area ten miles from the Czech border. There is an excellent restaurant at the Bahnhof owned by a lovely hard working Pakistani chap, and a plethora of high scoring easy to access summits in the DM/BM area that kept us occupied for three days. Summits shown below are within 25 Km radius of the village: </span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTcNa07Flriq0mWKO7A7wE3bA-T9zBtfjHGHSmkT5U1ohxZaCfi6Zsu7ETgg9uEWRoCOlOO75RPnaU1eSQnQpINxpT-R7TNtB7JNJhmbIUHFTxqKQLCjT_K3AEg8tk5sfuP5Mppr00tuNtZXqjOQeSgCIeThgwnsAhMiRwUt77C6T8jGy5uvpIbMKuDw/s830/ScreenHunter%20838.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="827" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTcNa07Flriq0mWKO7A7wE3bA-T9zBtfjHGHSmkT5U1ohxZaCfi6Zsu7ETgg9uEWRoCOlOO75RPnaU1eSQnQpINxpT-R7TNtB7JNJhmbIUHFTxqKQLCjT_K3AEg8tk5sfuP5Mppr00tuNtZXqjOQeSgCIeThgwnsAhMiRwUt77C6T8jGy5uvpIbMKuDw/w638-h640/ScreenHunter%20838.jpg" width="638" /></a></div></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Overshadowing Grafenweisen is the summit of DM/BM-368 Schwarzriegel (10 points), the towers of which can be seen from many miles away. The place is called sektor F, and was an intriguing cold war eavesdropping intercept station used by the west. The site has been sold off and is open to the public. There is an elevated viewing platform (293 steps!). I'd like to go back and further investigate as our SOTA itinerary would not permit us the time to do this on our tour. The next day we visited the east side former Soviet bloc eavesdropping site in Czechoslovakia (as it used to be) on Cerchov OK/PL-088, but that is another story. The two cold war listening sites are only seperated by around 25 Km. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Whilst planning the tour I found a walked track in the SOTA Mapping Project from my friend Markus HB9DIZ. The walk from the top of the Hohenbogen chairlift into the activation zone of sektor F I would grade as "easy", here are some photos:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2CH1eViGatUY8oTb-904g1qclP350wqTxDYUquYhWWtSFUn_HK8OX_tk0effhtXX7KQrk2QNpHyTgc0K9aKvxJLQ6iFtXAjdrCEyeYu6wLKFikeMceY7XO9lZ2OFHsTainzCTCmhUrW2c1FQ8mFev-llWA9Sma0AwZizvJGEjC-ge62WEAKbJPsJG_g/w480-h640/Ticket%20to%20BM-368%20Schwarzriegel.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="480" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">€11 return ticket up to the start of the walk into sektor F and Schwarzenriegel DM/BM-368</span><br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhALmL_1bOKSpZ-0TxwFCdqL8v69auvyUpX6sFsqj9QoILrHtFKShc_J9oMg10saNwjUPlo2Aj79_lAshVw3xBiW-l-0A5sg-qes-rOr-wEyx0sOcAVx4DBpB-YAFqOAw1jZq2_xbs14IgMYy9ibOU-rnEhuMUX8WLjiBC_9kE1gAaYXiXlqLAh4Ye9cw/s4608/BM-368%20transport.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhALmL_1bOKSpZ-0TxwFCdqL8v69auvyUpX6sFsqj9QoILrHtFKShc_J9oMg10saNwjUPlo2Aj79_lAshVw3xBiW-l-0A5sg-qes-rOr-wEyx0sOcAVx4DBpB-YAFqOAw1jZq2_xbs14IgMYy9ibOU-rnEhuMUX8WLjiBC_9kE1gAaYXiXlqLAh4Ye9cw/w640-h480/BM-368%20transport.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hohenbogen Chairlift €11 return fare</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYwEnP8vAeL1FO8YZumokPnnTEAlc3vzKZJ22Ic8sKFaD-GITDEgZ6Ky2fY2Au7iqkr8jTAUKGXaM0GlPJDEL4RIpjOBqH6p-sYClXjPbszK8YJqhIFsPU_MbJakJ0HEtDs0DJC_Q2MbmuQppM2E2K0HoFZnnWCS8s0_6JGM7Um2UMe85lL_knv2oFA/s4608/Nato%20Towers%20on%20BM-368.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYwEnP8vAeL1FO8YZumokPnnTEAlc3vzKZJ22Ic8sKFaD-GITDEgZ6Ky2fY2Au7iqkr8jTAUKGXaM0GlPJDEL4RIpjOBqH6p-sYClXjPbszK8YJqhIFsPU_MbJakJ0HEtDs0DJC_Q2MbmuQppM2E2K0HoFZnnWCS8s0_6JGM7Um2UMe85lL_knv2oFA/w640-h480/Nato%20Towers%20on%20BM-368.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The towers in sektor F</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcYVXSd9k3guAIUnkdSHOp_sEcMqq_YZitBOK3bsIUfIwqNX2X72zvLOp5WGTsvC3JhVQzz8RwVWdzhaamPNoOpB_pT_HlELCv1GTqT2uO4fO8rH_PAqHGCTo6Oz-dAiLVVVLyJ2yCDLeAsBbTx2ejlZpTwLTYE76VcmwImUalA40TYrKsBxzXw5jvwA/s4608/Victor%20at%20top%20of%20lift%20to%20BM-368.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcYVXSd9k3guAIUnkdSHOp_sEcMqq_YZitBOK3bsIUfIwqNX2X72zvLOp5WGTsvC3JhVQzz8RwVWdzhaamPNoOpB_pT_HlELCv1GTqT2uO4fO8rH_PAqHGCTo6Oz-dAiLVVVLyJ2yCDLeAsBbTx2ejlZpTwLTYE76VcmwImUalA40TYrKsBxzXw5jvwA/w640-h480/Victor%20at%20top%20of%20lift%20to%20BM-368.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The suntanned Victor DL/G4ONL/P at the top of the lift</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiENkKyxkwBLWS7KnRy6ANxLr4nhDMBvZyy7Jq1seQYOzzoQjjrbfyS-ATKoDcaHgwzscdMjKMvgFFFOPr5FrdpuwV3AiL30-H6ZEqtuXBkbR3SMTbMs0-asjSIOmsXzKAKzav_RUMuX3McGoahvf5SYFcWqB_lBLrOdLkR0Ljco-DOPswL9poWW4WvEQ/s4608/Table%20operation%20BM-368%20Schwarzriegel.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiENkKyxkwBLWS7KnRy6ANxLr4nhDMBvZyy7Jq1seQYOzzoQjjrbfyS-ATKoDcaHgwzscdMjKMvgFFFOPr5FrdpuwV3AiL30-H6ZEqtuXBkbR3SMTbMs0-asjSIOmsXzKAKzav_RUMuX3McGoahvf5SYFcWqB_lBLrOdLkR0Ljco-DOPswL9poWW4WvEQ/w640-h480/Table%20operation%20BM-368%20Schwarzriegel.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My operating position on DM/BM-368 - about 400m from Victor's</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This summit was in my top five of the 36 visited on the tour.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">However earlier in the day whilst the dew was still on the grass, we activated DM/BM-349 Hungerleite, also called Rotbuhl (673m).</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Less than a 10 minute walk to the summit from the car park. No one else there that early in the morning.<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4QUrtUQskShwEot9YYhZnq-Ze99eiPNkpKirL8hcDtfP39B_jLPgc3kTPb95sEh34ODU1HWLv9wd217Rj6mB_26i58Yf1it2dpujaHJrZJbxMLFTX_2TGAmwrSccNk9gp4G64Mjr9l8ELJfDcMIrvUworRiUqiwZ8PVtD48s2RL0VWUDWjXS-aH_wuw/s4608/Station%20on%20Hungerleite%20BM-349.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4QUrtUQskShwEot9YYhZnq-Ze99eiPNkpKirL8hcDtfP39B_jLPgc3kTPb95sEh34ODU1HWLv9wd217Rj6mB_26i58Yf1it2dpujaHJrZJbxMLFTX_2TGAmwrSccNk9gp4G64Mjr9l8ELJfDcMIrvUworRiUqiwZ8PVtD48s2RL0VWUDWjXS-aH_wuw/w640-h480/Station%20on%20Hungerleite%20BM-349.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">DL/G4OBK/P station on Hungerleite DM/BM-349</span></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I found another comfortable seat on this summit, while Victor operated on the 30m band amongst the trees around 200m from me. He only managed to make 5 contacts (albeit in eight minutes), compared to my 17, however Victor got the best DX QSO of the tour at 06:37z when he worked S2S long path with Andrew VK1DA/P who was activating in Australia on the summit of VK1/AC-043. Andrew had a good day DX wise, as at 06:28z he worked my friend Terry G0VWP in York on 7 MHz SSB! </span></span></div><div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The day went like this, with five summits activated for another 34 points:</span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">DM/BM-349 Hungerleite (6)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">DM/BM-309 Hochwald (6)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">DM/BM-368 Schwarzeigel (10)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">DM/BM-304 Haidstein (6)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">DM/BM-030 Rossberghutte (6)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Distance driven 68 miles distance walked 7 miles (+1.5 miles on chairlift)</span></span></p><p><a href="https://catterblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/sota-tour-czech-bavaria-june-2022-part-3.html" target="_blank"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Now go to Part 3 </span></span></b></i></a></p></div></div></div></div></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-45983870784975222452022-07-30T19:00:00.007+01:002022-11-04T22:22:58.205+00:00SOTA Tour Czech & Bavaria June 2022 - Part 3<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Three and a half days left on this tour back from Friedrichshafen to Prague - where we do go next?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">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: </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Click for a bigger picture - then go back): </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFK8IKt0w8ftbjqG6IVIlhlUv3ei2cHm-DgJH4InFyAJ1xwEt2erOcP13QwpUm_rR1ajXZkEL7GYfMF8uCjDD4qdiGbERNUgJeQpTV6uFcm0k7avwg3v5chNOx-Ts8fQ9z4xE3um7lgPn5nfn1DxZpTH1M9GORXpk9WOhl7_HQod8jO5eDypI1dq9buw/s960/Prague-FN%20Worksheet1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="960" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFK8IKt0w8ftbjqG6IVIlhlUv3ei2cHm-DgJH4InFyAJ1xwEt2erOcP13QwpUm_rR1ajXZkEL7GYfMF8uCjDD4qdiGbERNUgJeQpTV6uFcm0k7avwg3v5chNOx-Ts8fQ9z4xE3um7lgPn5nfn1DxZpTH1M9GORXpk9WOhl7_HQod8jO5eDypI1dq9buw/w640-h440/Prague-FN%20Worksheet1.jpg" width="640" /> </a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <seperation></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPz0vZf79F5mMY8AMmVElTtAIXG1M-x_uvH22ZwD9gPaefS1InrNk6XDeh6yhI97-XK769VJOSnSgw4xwuKHlA2nVMpWRgexjImrjtGnibIlNh9sneKvnd392T_nOoJOPiiNNig_RLr6NADP7jkiBuqGA3CW-F7Usd62CN8xqSGJxvDBC3-hcw__DONQ/s956/Prague-FN%20Worksheet2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="956" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPz0vZf79F5mMY8AMmVElTtAIXG1M-x_uvH22ZwD9gPaefS1InrNk6XDeh6yhI97-XK769VJOSnSgw4xwuKHlA2nVMpWRgexjImrjtGnibIlNh9sneKvnd392T_nOoJOPiiNNig_RLr6NADP7jkiBuqGA3CW-F7Usd62CN8xqSGJxvDBC3-hcw__DONQ/w640-h428/Prague-FN%20Worksheet2.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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. <br /></span></p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>As the worksheet shows - Weds 29 June - </span><span><span>we deviated from the above plan and made better progress than we anticipated. So this is what we activated on 29 June:</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span>DM/BM-047 Grosser Arber (10)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span>DM/BM-261 Wolfgangriegel (10)<br /></span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span>DM/BM-262 Rabenholz (8)<br /></span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span>DM/BM-295 Abendberg (8)</span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span>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:</span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKg0PTH3x9cAi2dNxeBNT-8wUQgo1u_NTbGSywxmuef-i7yZSKrAqWcRwaZ9Zw-dgB3_fNDWJ_dK3eaezg8rn83oU8_N_-pYzB3tTUZL1KFt0X7OT3e6Y-tkohXHCM396MJJ6c03zGATVHMWPiXGo5hzgcEA7nwM-nJFpqZjRFyuBTS3Ew4c7ITgq2lA/s4608/Operating%20position%20on%20BM-047%20Grosser%20Arber.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKg0PTH3x9cAi2dNxeBNT-8wUQgo1u_NTbGSywxmuef-i7yZSKrAqWcRwaZ9Zw-dgB3_fNDWJ_dK3eaezg8rn83oU8_N_-pYzB3tTUZL1KFt0X7OT3e6Y-tkohXHCM396MJJ6c03zGATVHMWPiXGo5hzgcEA7nwM-nJFpqZjRFyuBTS3Ew4c7ITgq2lA/w640-h480/Operating%20position%20on%20BM-047%20Grosser%20Arber.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">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. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">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:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEB7TuXnmAB0zC5hxOZ_abJY3TBijxq1xjg6hTvTlNxsjTSEKEpPA6SBCybYYr7mmw7xKwe-F-Ilc8Y6URRKb79-bAWS1CqzlxyoNyYfAvvBlTjMi5mVtjv0nRKq3Vja7bc7zFtSVqyYfEMaeUSeSajSHFfqa-FMDkUreQovn5YyyO3-Nl2xBAgevNHg/s1278/ScreenHunter%20844.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1278" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEB7TuXnmAB0zC5hxOZ_abJY3TBijxq1xjg6hTvTlNxsjTSEKEpPA6SBCybYYr7mmw7xKwe-F-Ilc8Y6URRKb79-bAWS1CqzlxyoNyYfAvvBlTjMi5mVtjv0nRKq3Vja7bc7zFtSVqyYfEMaeUSeSajSHFfqa-FMDkUreQovn5YyyO3-Nl2xBAgevNHg/w640-h434/ScreenHunter%20844.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpWRns9wWkNDE6z1g9cHxvaMIFiVzSvR27OlmLIHpVrVH4Hxj_CeQ5fKeYJwuNWLBUv5FQ_YQ-qGzVL_trMCxwHTVXeWCjq2vVh2rK-MrBqqgbiG8uLsELfOPFmXqdxX8HrdZWDovy-7hFQSSg2Zw5uH9BcVLkRls27xAPuUsu7UqOUgtXfqOchCeo4A/s4608/Lunch%20after%20activating%20BM-261%20Wolfgandriegel.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpWRns9wWkNDE6z1g9cHxvaMIFiVzSvR27OlmLIHpVrVH4Hxj_CeQ5fKeYJwuNWLBUv5FQ_YQ-qGzVL_trMCxwHTVXeWCjq2vVh2rK-MrBqqgbiG8uLsELfOPFmXqdxX8HrdZWDovy-7hFQSSg2Zw5uH9BcVLkRls27xAPuUsu7UqOUgtXfqOchCeo4A/w640-h480/Lunch%20after%20activating%20BM-261%20Wolfgandriegel.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Victor DL/G4ONL/P waiting for his lunch back at the Alm in Frath after DM/BM-261</span></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">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 - <b>Thursday 30 June </b>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:</span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">DM/BM-296 Hadriwa (10)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">DM/BM-002 Proller (10)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>DM/BM-259 Weigelsberg (10)</u><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>OK/PL-088 Cerchov (10) (See Part 4</u>)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">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:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigsVpWtXZmKtQ77pLNN59AXYH-f52_jJ3-mFFomEb7qVfBUvcZoPvfeaeceh2ikItWIVWn8Ssp-ajquBVY9J6_j8du_wKAWAA9qfmUN_L2oImt1M9U1BugQtaS3yXave6xEZwTyfBh89F1CAjVY585kBMq-Bv_CWrTsx4iyfuZMWQXlvyD42bhRtCbBw/s1269/ScreenHunter%20845.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="873" data-original-width="1269" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigsVpWtXZmKtQ77pLNN59AXYH-f52_jJ3-mFFomEb7qVfBUvcZoPvfeaeceh2ikItWIVWn8Ssp-ajquBVY9J6_j8du_wKAWAA9qfmUN_L2oImt1M9U1BugQtaS3yXave6xEZwTyfBh89F1CAjVY585kBMq-Bv_CWrTsx4iyfuZMWQXlvyD42bhRtCbBw/w640-h440/ScreenHunter%20845.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We left and headed for an alm below Proller DM/BM-002. Clear views from the top of this 10 point summit, after a short steep climb that took us 20 minutes. Conditions on 20m were very good either side of 10:00z. They were even better for Victor - when I packed up and went to find him he was smiling from ear to ear working a big pile up on 30 metres! I took my shirt off and basked in the sun for 15 minutes or so, not a pretty sight! Put it back on though for the BM-002 summit photo:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMCuA1sb2x9cGmFEyz4FFY207wiMzb_IczMKY_7jDt3n-AykPd_uCDSb3gFXwarnk9WkL4u6-vZggv-Fr7I4T_86s2FyGR2i7vJkFs3wreDUowbPHY4gc5A8TwdRkU1gWPm68LgY6t4SfjMyief102ssKtpQv1SSjIRBylP5sf56Xp8CVY2teQeJtQtA/s3264/BM-002%20Proller.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMCuA1sb2x9cGmFEyz4FFY207wiMzb_IczMKY_7jDt3n-AykPd_uCDSb3gFXwarnk9WkL4u6-vZggv-Fr7I4T_86s2FyGR2i7vJkFs3wreDUowbPHY4gc5A8TwdRkU1gWPm68LgY6t4SfjMyief102ssKtpQv1SSjIRBylP5sf56Xp8CVY2teQeJtQtA/w640-h480/BM-002%20Proller.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Phil DL/G4OBK/P Victor DL/G4ONL/P</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh035jz1hVSzJSEO0hcQztGuAodCvcl5rW7cKZ6VcECfw8nIGC3e4HlvrFqCVruUhqI_wp6S-17426fXJQ2-QPi5dY_KDb3AxS4QndOFhXPuefGrHwZY5kZIxk2wvq2tlpXCrT_LiWWXP6G4tVr4ctKUrJ0UHdvTwVnHS3VwueI-GScdZXv5Dyw8e2_uQ/w480-h640/Proller%20BM-002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="480" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Summit Cross DM/BM-002</span></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh035jz1hVSzJSEO0hcQztGuAodCvcl5rW7cKZ6VcECfw8nIGC3e4HlvrFqCVruUhqI_wp6S-17426fXJQ2-QPi5dY_KDb3AxS4QndOFhXPuefGrHwZY5kZIxk2wvq2tlpXCrT_LiWWXP6G4tVr4ctKUrJ0UHdvTwVnHS3VwueI-GScdZXv5Dyw8e2_uQ/s4608/Proller%20BM-002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxvpSOag49QoAddPp5V1ZnFxoQJK1yQkgsr7HGEKjoiCJ2Nd72h-pooAVYsyUWsegSNqT5hjJv8QaONs5RX0hsGtwl92Tzh0QEbvfDAvjTaRr278iK8IriZ5TiO0B0XOk7pjiIA6Pa9l5QkBy4jnTH1kKSI7jREi6jeNungH0m9_zW_5hSBH6XupXRZw/s4608/Walking%20down%20from%20BM-002%20Proller.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxvpSOag49QoAddPp5V1ZnFxoQJK1yQkgsr7HGEKjoiCJ2Nd72h-pooAVYsyUWsegSNqT5hjJv8QaONs5RX0hsGtwl92Tzh0QEbvfDAvjTaRr278iK8IriZ5TiO0B0XOk7pjiIA6Pa9l5QkBy4jnTH1kKSI7jREi6jeNungH0m9_zW_5hSBH6XupXRZw/w640-h480/Walking%20down%20from%20BM-002%20Proller.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Walking down from Proller DM/BM-002</span></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There's plenty to say about our 4th summit that day, </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">OK/PL-088 Cerchov</span></span> but I'll leave that for Part 4. Our last evening in Grafenweisen was interesting though. Mrs Dachs, the proprietor of Gasthaus Fidelis is a musician and we were treated to a few tunes from her band in her garden before we ventured to the restaurant in the village:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehzjGhvi0RDRD6MzGnIIhC8qbbt5VvRFX0vzJ5Z3nDM_t6gmmE2sPRNRxbEwuUzS4mAmb4I4yd1mumVtu5o6F6hwGIfL153dZ4MeE_3mwia4Zvuv2UR3fyRO_-rFNddLfD47NZbvJ9Vh_2i_cxq-947W92DPMe019oiOpAbmKIHmGng2LxG_cK2HGhg/s4608/Gasthaus%20Fidelis%20Quintet%20Grafenweisen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehzjGhvi0RDRD6MzGnIIhC8qbbt5VvRFX0vzJ5Z3nDM_t6gmmE2sPRNRxbEwuUzS4mAmb4I4yd1mumVtu5o6F6hwGIfL153dZ4MeE_3mwia4Zvuv2UR3fyRO_-rFNddLfD47NZbvJ9Vh_2i_cxq-947W92DPMe019oiOpAbmKIHmGng2LxG_cK2HGhg/w640-h480/Gasthaus%20Fidelis%20Quintet%20Grafenweisen.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Our final night of three then at the Pizzeria Diavolo in Grafenwesien, where we once again enjoyed lovely food and the hospitality of the owner, seen here with us as we left:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_puACxOGUT4t_PCgEzUOf-E4sMDjhz0zk7ziKCVzHHj0NMZu4D9AVnBemQVFzh_57sw934SDD1MJx9-1Bub2dIGm8db-VcE9v0nEKUHc4ZFt1xbbWg9asxdz-EZMvQlCnyu0Rq9ANY1xQ1Hy2uzDlwNPZ_NiBhah2lg3aoRAP2QPeRTUsYsl-KmCwMA/s4608/Our%20restaurant%20owner%20in%20Grafenweisen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_puACxOGUT4t_PCgEzUOf-E4sMDjhz0zk7ziKCVzHHj0NMZu4D9AVnBemQVFzh_57sw934SDD1MJx9-1Bub2dIGm8db-VcE9v0nEKUHc4ZFt1xbbWg9asxdz-EZMvQlCnyu0Rq9ANY1xQ1Hy2uzDlwNPZ_NiBhah2lg3aoRAP2QPeRTUsYsl-KmCwMA/w640-h480/Our%20restaurant%20owner%20in%20Grafenweisen.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Part 4 will follow our progess on our last day through the Czech Republic via Plzen and back to Vaclav Havel Airport, Prague.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b><a href="https://catterblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/sota-tour-czech-bavaria-june-2022-part.html" target="_blank">Now go to Part 4 (Final)</a></b></i></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-71119521212952401172022-07-30T18:00:00.004+01:002024-01-15T13:34:11.824+00:00SOTA Tour - Czech & Bavaria June - July 2022 Part 4 (Final)<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Concluding my blog of my trip with GI4ONL to activate summits in Germany and Czech Republic...</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After visiting the former NATO / American cold war radio monitoring site on DM/BM-368 two days previous we had a chance in the late afternoon of 30 June on our last day staying at Grafenweisen in Germany, to visit and activate Cerchov OK/PL-088, a summit over the border in the previously Russian controlled sector in the former Czechoslovakia. I hadn't researched the summit and did not know this was a former intelligence gathering site until we arrived on the summit, which was in fact a "drive on". The legal access road lat long is via the junction at Capartice 49.412N 12.788E. The road is paved with tarmac, then slabs and setts. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Please Note: It was reported by DH2ID in Sept 2023 that there is a "closed to all vehicles notice" now on the access road<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL2RGhDzPvQBuCmWISdX58CX_DpFmc0qrLOYH_H3xxNtvHN5MyHEXrjD-P6jg33rnyY0cRNeUVBNG1JA63UWtLKYp770-YhrAAHk8pNPeluS7d0TDB8PsN5Zz8PxL68cMInrvznsWcF3Gk7VmIaI9eYkxL2exnLA7bwqoIrvbUSLC5WCCKCEdBCV1rLg/s4608/OK-PL-088%20Cerchov-2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL2RGhDzPvQBuCmWISdX58CX_DpFmc0qrLOYH_H3xxNtvHN5MyHEXrjD-P6jg33rnyY0cRNeUVBNG1JA63UWtLKYp770-YhrAAHk8pNPeluS7d0TDB8PsN5Zz8PxL68cMInrvznsWcF3Gk7VmIaI9eYkxL2exnLA7bwqoIrvbUSLC5WCCKCEdBCV1rLg/w640-h480/OK-PL-088%20Cerchov-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Victor at the bottom of the intelligence gathering workplace (closed 1989)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80iRJ-XynDW7kgicX9GFvVjbRXZmu7lROOYMeb6nEb8IYxSU4y-VX-lxVEbGXgf7Tg3zQr-LwbQuc4Zw3SmibW8X9YdUhLVve2ok_9u5hRCKQCQ-gqkFdgnxv-pYBd7RHFUtgPRYTw2y01PGuKBne_IvNpBQxK1TTTBQgNznryJoJUsSnvuZ2zOTqwQ/s4608/OK-PL-088%20Cerchov-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80iRJ-XynDW7kgicX9GFvVjbRXZmu7lROOYMeb6nEb8IYxSU4y-VX-lxVEbGXgf7Tg3zQr-LwbQuc4Zw3SmibW8X9YdUhLVve2ok_9u5hRCKQCQ-gqkFdgnxv-pYBd7RHFUtgPRYTw2y01PGuKBne_IvNpBQxK1TTTBQgNznryJoJUsSnvuZ2zOTqwQ/w480-h640/OK-PL-088%20Cerchov-1.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There were two large structures on the summit, and numerous sheds and buildings. The Bistro in a large shed was closed - we were told this by Palo OK1CRM who we met there by chance. There were other surprises awaiting us on the summit. Palo was the station manager of the OL7P contest station and is a CW man like me. He showed us around the station which was in the same large shed that housed the Bistro. The station is set up for VHF Contests and contains several home brew linear amplifiers. Here they are:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIh3JkBGc-egTVRe450JZtkr0pMwNy8B--Ck1kwXBV0jR3CM6bOu_9ByCmQKB5inYeBkJ3sqUAKaQpsrsOpouR8Ef6dca12RwuosY6v6vLSr_Shl3okZouv76bd2eH6wwcfW4FBwfog2Spxvn4y8SaXRO__9PD7YsLv2EFm_KmfY5uH_AiGYqZzY72Qg/s4608/Paulo%20OK1CRM%20-%20OL7P%20station%20manager%20OL3Y%20Contest%20Group%202m%20linear%20stack%20in%20cabinet.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIh3JkBGc-egTVRe450JZtkr0pMwNy8B--Ck1kwXBV0jR3CM6bOu_9ByCmQKB5inYeBkJ3sqUAKaQpsrsOpouR8Ef6dca12RwuosY6v6vLSr_Shl3okZouv76bd2eH6wwcfW4FBwfog2Spxvn4y8SaXRO__9PD7YsLv2EFm_KmfY5uH_AiGYqZzY72Qg/w480-h640/Paulo%20OK1CRM%20-%20OL7P%20station%20manager%20OL3Y%20Contest%20Group%202m%20linear%20stack%20in%20cabinet.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Palo OK1CRM and the 2m amplifier stack</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfTpSxVJH5kN2AG_TsLxjFrFie4HwW_wIyURi_qqToTWJekcP4EimdpdVoSveEEBnF_S-kxEF-gFhqVh_iJz4bM7H_aYFhfmMnzu49lBPY2fJLHmPWUOrT2FyHh4OQQrJFfhau7_c657rb9YiV66kzlX9B3k2E42XBM_aRmrqz79honjUSvVDVBYLBMQ/s4608/OK-PL-088%20Cerchov-3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfTpSxVJH5kN2AG_TsLxjFrFie4HwW_wIyURi_qqToTWJekcP4EimdpdVoSveEEBnF_S-kxEF-gFhqVh_iJz4bM7H_aYFhfmMnzu49lBPY2fJLHmPWUOrT2FyHh4OQQrJFfhau7_c657rb9YiV66kzlX9B3k2E42XBM_aRmrqz79honjUSvVDVBYLBMQ/w640-h480/OK-PL-088%20Cerchov-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">My inverted Vee on 5m pole fixed to trig pole</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>The activation of OK/PL-088 produced 19 QSOs on 20m - 15 CW and 4 SSB. The UK stations worked were M0BKV, GM0GAV, GI0AZB and GI4OSF. As I was packing up a lovely girl who was exploring the summit came up to me and we got chatting. Her name was Pauline and she was on a walking holiday from Hamburg. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRfg-Yyrvri_HRKadiGicEEmos4PxxO0KZ3_yulNSnbQ4HR-BC0Wbb3wZGvAP41LAy3PfbGKUAl-CqgwkP_gZ5vdwROfE1tZE0eJ2C2uBurb4B-DAwes8Q4RBmgXwomdlwhf0AcFjTo75xYpWwWN8tCH0BB7VHAoRN8XNkS6bMQoHIZRh7jL1-3HOdw/s3264/Pauline%20from%20Hamburg%20on%20CerchovOK-PL-088.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRfg-Yyrvri_HRKadiGicEEmos4PxxO0KZ3_yulNSnbQ4HR-BC0Wbb3wZGvAP41LAy3PfbGKUAl-CqgwkP_gZ5vdwROfE1tZE0eJ2C2uBurb4B-DAwes8Q4RBmgXwomdlwhf0AcFjTo75xYpWwWN8tCH0BB7VHAoRN8XNkS6bMQoHIZRh7jL1-3HOdw/w640-h480/Pauline%20from%20Hamburg%20on%20CerchovOK-PL-088.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pauline had walked 15 Km from the nearest town in Germany, Waldmunchen, that afternoon - we offered her a lift back there and she accepted, dropping her off on the outskirts of the town. We proceeded back to Grafenweisen for our final night in Germany, before travelling the next day (01 July) to Plzen via these four OK/PL summits:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">OK/PL-019 Skarmanka (6)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">OK/PL-028 Korab (6)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">OK/PL-093 Ulikovska Hora (6)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">OK/PL-094 Smrci (2)</span> <br /></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These four summits were all rather similar non-descript wooded summits and as a result no photographs were taken. Plzen was a large city and booking the hotel in the midst of it was an error on my part. It wasn't very good. We would have been better finding a hotel in a village outside the city. </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our final day meant travelling to Prague and activating two summits on the way, OK/PL-035 Radec, which was a pleasant walk on track and path to a hilltop with a comms site there. The final summit OK/ST-021 Krusna Hora was a pleasant walk, which we did as a circular walk from the car park. The GPX file is on the SMP website:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuVimXD5n69w_x-Pyh_HQRqJiyQhltslkl-M1dcUE42svfgIRWU_GKdAC32_Ng0TIfMZH1mTjhx5w0GJqLz7YX6msjKOtW8V4spP48_J4KkWnZpRoOabEhIb1J0KfXt7QmJZHzX5hmmlb-WMFpicElpVxm0Y627nGQv15YvHMd2qugXrD4uANFHXCSNw/s870/ScreenHunter%20856.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="870" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuVimXD5n69w_x-Pyh_HQRqJiyQhltslkl-M1dcUE42svfgIRWU_GKdAC32_Ng0TIfMZH1mTjhx5w0GJqLz7YX6msjKOtW8V4spP48_J4KkWnZpRoOabEhIb1J0KfXt7QmJZHzX5hmmlb-WMFpicElpVxm0Y627nGQv15YvHMd2qugXrD4uANFHXCSNw/w640-h540/ScreenHunter%20856.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> </span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4mxLVwrFeyGqJeBUM8VcJM1hhqTgUjCdCxa-y4tJJi1zcwOz9OsgEOli13h2WnzsHQ1wRtXPclvCdi303RaSeFn_m_6wPeJ5D5CB98vf5d4GK9i50-09IHfveVqB7YkZtI9riAagdnW6xRleZWcoEDhaiQeQfmUDNwExGtxFTD1GOGX0KPFCBooLHPg/s4608/Tower%20on%20our%20final%20summit%20OK-ST-021%20Krusna%20Hora.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4mxLVwrFeyGqJeBUM8VcJM1hhqTgUjCdCxa-y4tJJi1zcwOz9OsgEOli13h2WnzsHQ1wRtXPclvCdi303RaSeFn_m_6wPeJ5D5CB98vf5d4GK9i50-09IHfveVqB7YkZtI9riAagdnW6xRleZWcoEDhaiQeQfmUDNwExGtxFTD1GOGX0KPFCBooLHPg/w480-h640/Tower%20on%20our%20final%20summit%20OK-ST-021%20Krusna%20Hora.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Observation tower on OK/ST-021 Krusna Hora <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We had no time to climb the tower. My activation was confined to SSB only as my Palm Paddle key stopped sending dots on the previous summit. Turned out when I got home and checked that the dot contacts just needed cleaning and adjustment. First time I have needed to touch it in 4 years and 100s of activations. After finishing on OK/ST-021 we motored to the Globus car wash and KFC we use every time we have been to Prague and then headed for the airport to hand in the car. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The journey home was not the most straighforward. I took a Ryan Air flight to Stansted. No hassle getting through security at Prague. Due to a rail strike that day by Greater Anglia Trains I had to catch the train to London, make a bus journey across London from Liverpool St to Kings Cross station and then train to York from there via LNER. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Terry G0VWP picked me up at York and drove me the 30 miles back to the home QTH for which I was very grateful. I was home just before midnight, 02 July. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">36 SOTA Complete summits activated over 11 days</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">691 QSOs</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">204 SOTA Points <br /></span></span></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-74610609453057330372021-12-01T23:59:00.005+00:002022-02-01T12:42:59.734+00:00SOTA GM/SS-289 White Hill 01-12-2021<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hightown Hill (formerly GM/SS-273) is an important summit for me. I was the first person to activate the summit and additionally, it was my very first SOTA activation on 21 June 2005. A re-survey by Alan Dawson (Author of The Relative Hills of Britain) of Hightown Hill had taken place, when it was established that nearby White Hill was 20cm higher, therefore the Marilyn status was transferred to White Hill GM/SS-289 for the purposes of SOTA, on 1st December 2021. I wanted to the the first activator of White Hill which is why I stayed overnight in Annan on 30th November 2021, to ensure I had early access at first light. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Having dried out my gear overnight from my wet activation of Deuchar Law the previous afternoon, I left my guest house in Annan at 06:45z after a cup of tea and drove out towards the village of Tortherwald</span> <span style="font-family: arial;">and then north to the parking place for GM/SS-289 White Hill. I slyly alerted the activation later than I usually do - just prior to leaving the Annan guest house on the day, to help ensure that I would be the first to activate the "new one"... As it was dark when I started out </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I parked away from Hightown Farm</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">as I wanted to avoid contact with barking dogs and farmers. So I parked roadside at the side of Bruntshields Wood NY 028825 and walked up the road to a gate at NY 029832. From there I walked over stock free fields and through open gates to the summit:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvyiFOgC5t_ga3lrf-jUizymm6FPhZ1k7Y5897siWo5_xs56mqPDQal8BG2-uJEHffPBDwYvmpIyvtZcMXvof6o63X896IfxN0v4_1GMj2Cl0R8WpfA51S6LHVyLOo04SPsDMlbOVjdFbU/s668/ScreenHunter+707.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="668" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvyiFOgC5t_ga3lrf-jUizymm6FPhZ1k7Y5897siWo5_xs56mqPDQal8BG2-uJEHffPBDwYvmpIyvtZcMXvof6o63X896IfxN0v4_1GMj2Cl0R8WpfA51S6LHVyLOo04SPsDMlbOVjdFbU/w640-h524/ScreenHunter+707.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">©Crown copyright 2014 Ordnance Survey Media 2014</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On arrival I got out my FT-65 handheld with RH-770 whip and worked Geoff Harper GM4WHA who lives in Annan. 59 reports were exchanged both ways and the summit was activated! I've known Geoff since I started activating SOTA and WOTA and we've activated and walked the Lakeland Fells together several times, so it was great for him to be the first chaser to work White Hill. As Geoff headed off to work I set about assembling my HF station. 60m was open - but not wide open to UK. The skip was long and several NYSA members were unable to hear my 10 watt signal. (NYSA is the (unofficial) North Yorkshire SOTA Association!). I did scrape a contact with Victor GI4ONL who's CW signal had a rough echo sound it - decidedly auroral, so maybe it came from a reflection to the north. Finally NYSA member Terry G0VWP (York) was worked before I moved to the 40m band. It was a cold morning, but dry with excellent views across to the M74 motorway and the wood processing plant in that direction. The trig point on Hightow</span><span style="font-family: arial;">n Hill was close. The depression that is Whitehill Moss in between the two hills, drops by around 30m:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCYjh7b5MMnxR914kP6G3wKlY2diacr6XJuFwXd2VGKnqYolyNOKVwyS3V-Bn3QXK6iLvXsqbK5JcB8tK9RvaKa8SyUs4FVkucNsWNP8Vu6W_23fwhyphenhypheneeX4jpA0bQJ0g6zoqxNA7lv2ZQt/s3840/IMG_20211201_091408953_MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCYjh7b5MMnxR914kP6G3wKlY2diacr6XJuFwXd2VGKnqYolyNOKVwyS3V-Bn3QXK6iLvXsqbK5JcB8tK9RvaKa8SyUs4FVkucNsWNP8Vu6W_23fwhyphenhypheneeX4jpA0bQJ0g6zoqxNA7lv2ZQt/w640-h480/IMG_20211201_091408953_MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYRPL7Q85oAGHp-uL5YIhMa40F5kzcI08_YmXoe4NQiTWVYvG2nwnwNWMe8a3Hui9k0bgDcb2-soPj6025VEB-vFC9xtxdkL4PDQuJe3u9ZwMBYBxXaPNz3mnvt2QZZT6gEm_yrUPDXkh/s3840/IMG_20211201_091358149.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYRPL7Q85oAGHp-uL5YIhMa40F5kzcI08_YmXoe4NQiTWVYvG2nwnwNWMe8a3Hui9k0bgDcb2-soPj6025VEB-vFC9xtxdkL4PDQuJe3u9ZwMBYBxXaPNz3mnvt2QZZT6gEm_yrUPDXkh/w640-h480/IMG_20211201_091358149.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibblZidVlfAIydvp2eMOzSw59xiauxogywJvfzvU-qaKbNZ3yBT1dTAQJTL1HWIGHQ01ZwoBuH7Lv1UBGQ-jJ-GKdGDfiB9z0VveZjLRKMRPepqCTxmz8gaYBrfgegiiT4ANZBoC2G791Q/s3840/IMG_20211201_091425429.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibblZidVlfAIydvp2eMOzSw59xiauxogywJvfzvU-qaKbNZ3yBT1dTAQJTL1HWIGHQ01ZwoBuH7Lv1UBGQ-jJ-GKdGDfiB9z0VveZjLRKMRPepqCTxmz8gaYBrfgegiiT4ANZBoC2G791Q/w640-h480/IMG_20211201_091425429.jpg" width="640" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPhCKZ4uq12nAh7NMd9L9WWk5a7GE4g9PS3Ze7NiEClMG_2sO1l49F1VcKELT9WaIhZ3isZJ-vFNL0VI_y2llhMQ5GDtjPp1b8yNAzLZLECQbHg4mwAn_cP91EnJtiIDWEuwZ3aqKthukv/s3264/IMG_20211201_090036163.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPhCKZ4uq12nAh7NMd9L9WWk5a7GE4g9PS3Ze7NiEClMG_2sO1l49F1VcKELT9WaIhZ3isZJ-vFNL0VI_y2llhMQ5GDtjPp1b8yNAzLZLECQbHg4mwAn_cP91EnJtiIDWEuwZ3aqKthukv/w480-h640/IMG_20211201_090036163.jpg" width="480" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">After sitting for an hour in significant wind chill I took a selfie and decided after my final calls on 20m CW that I would depart before hypothermia set in, however I finally re-connected my dipole links to the 60m band and moved to 5398.5 KHZ in an attempt to worked the remaining NYSA members who I knew were still looking for a QSO for the all time new one... Sure enough the skip had shortened, and Pete M0HQO (Pickering) and Nick G4OOE (Scarborough) were both logged with 59 reports both ways. I then logged MM0GGI, G0RQL and G8XDD (Not ADD), finishing with 41 QSOs. After my soaking the previous day on Deuchar Law and the cold experienced on White Hill, I'd felt I had achieved what I came to Scotland for and drove south to Tesco Carlisle for an all day breakfast before driving home. I must mention F5JKK before I go, as Eric worked me on every band I used: 60m, 40m, 30m and 20m on SSB and CW!</span></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-80868023673449798382021-11-30T23:59:00.034+00:002021-12-11T10:58:19.806+00:00SOTA GM/SS-144 Deuchar Law 30-11-2021<div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIW2HmdECcuGVFPDyf48t8IFzIwjR3p6Kf6UuDuxYXBXxrafn_yjQaS6ADTmTKyP3EK8b8RvkUArapth73SR2AeEIm89RnsNajxjVNYGMY6l6oFJuG_wlB4oqNPwT3kxLG2EofdP9nrwSJ/s816/ScreenHunter+703.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="816" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIW2HmdECcuGVFPDyf48t8IFzIwjR3p6Kf6UuDuxYXBXxrafn_yjQaS6ADTmTKyP3EK8b8RvkUArapth73SR2AeEIm89RnsNajxjVNYGMY6l6oFJuG_wlB4oqNPwT3kxLG2EofdP9nrwSJ/w640-h190/ScreenHunter+703.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The route taken</span></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I travelled up to Scotland intending to be the first to activate a new summit - this was White Hill GM/SS-289, however to be sure of this I needed to be in the area near Dumfries, early morning on the 1st December. I booked a guest house in Annan for the 30th November and activated Deuchar Law that day, before going to Annan in the evening.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It was St Andrews Day, a public holiday in Scotland and the first qualifying day for the SOTA Winter Bonus in Scotland where special dispensation had been granted to earn the bonus a day early and I believe that I was the only activator to take advantage of this unusual situation, so my activation was worth five points rather than the usual two... <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The weather was changeable and wet in the last week of November and I was uncertain whether this activation would actually take place at all. After studying weather forecasts I decided to leave Yorkshire in mid morning and hoped that when I reached the area north east of Moffat that the weather would be dry enough to proceed to Deuchar Law (543m ASL). Indeed it was dry enough to set off when I arrived at the parking place at Glenlude 326m ASL, (NY 312297) for my walk from the B709 road, at 1400z. With darkness just over two hours away I knew that my headlight would be needed for the return walk...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2GujCXONZQwQ8SjzfPaYFYR7ejsfe4U8Q6l1lbnHtHGRBMCWdMve2LN0vNfhFXb4MGyJVS0CbCqVKQBE2La9SWu0vdf2oEOL9IiH3U0PjOvLa7Ffi_5HhAAob8RP7KYE6wdsSlEMXfDTf/s3840/IMG_20211130_140835395.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2GujCXONZQwQ8SjzfPaYFYR7ejsfe4U8Q6l1lbnHtHGRBMCWdMve2LN0vNfhFXb4MGyJVS0CbCqVKQBE2La9SWu0vdf2oEOL9IiH3U0PjOvLa7Ffi_5HhAAob8RP7KYE6wdsSlEMXfDTf/w640-h480/IMG_20211130_140835395.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Parking place in lay-by above Glenlude</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It was a shade under two miles and around 850 feet of ascent to the featureless summit of Deuchar Law, a slightly easier walk than the climb to GM/SS-029 Broad Law nearby, which I activated in August with Pete M0HQO. It was mostly grass to the summit, with the final half mile or so after the fence rather rough ground, but not so bad. It took me just an hour to reach the highest point of Deuchar Law, and I was on the air on HF working my good friend Nick G4OOE in Scarborough at 1530z using the 60m band (CW). I worked Nick again on SSB, as well as my near neighbour in Pickering, Pete M0HQO (CW), and finally Victor GI4ONL (SSB) before moving to 40m CW to work nine more European stations. The weather was on the turn when I arrived, wind was around 20 mph and rain threatening. I found a hollow in the ground a few meters down from the few stones marking the summit and pitched up my golf umbrella there to keep the rain off me and my KX3. There was nothing to fix the aerial pole to on Deuchar Law, so I used my guying ring. A link dipole was deployed as an inverted vee on the 60m and 40m bands:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihu3banOSEYDpgBiHSloQ1p-pnX1n6W3j2QvJgx_Hp14AHTeyrVu1Y-j1ZoCHLf7msko-WY92XWEB9BCOPz9435IBCBjsEZccy4IopI30hx5CT88nrc4ifPwpEHvimodnFp35bb7FKMYix/s3840/IMG_20211130_154342760.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihu3banOSEYDpgBiHSloQ1p-pnX1n6W3j2QvJgx_Hp14AHTeyrVu1Y-j1ZoCHLf7msko-WY92XWEB9BCOPz9435IBCBjsEZccy4IopI30hx5CT88nrc4ifPwpEHvimodnFp35bb7FKMYix/w640-h480/IMG_20211130_154342760.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFveHEM_ilhY6oTICSQiup2FRY8Tly43fiMTQiGc1wCFVlJ05wjalrKHjTNaojUjV77K-B2RVufSPZKlps7XdRqa9eJJ-_YE-H7z55jvc_CdvMGLMLvaRRuedVJ5Nc7bS-A0Yr737mMlb/s3840/IMG_20211130_152619435.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFveHEM_ilhY6oTICSQiup2FRY8Tly43fiMTQiGc1wCFVlJ05wjalrKHjTNaojUjV77K-B2RVufSPZKlps7XdRqa9eJJ-_YE-H7z55jvc_CdvMGLMLvaRRuedVJ5Nc7bS-A0Yr737mMlb/w640-h480/IMG_20211130_152619435.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">After twenty minutes of activity and eighteen contacts it started pouring with rain. The headlight came in at that point and I packed up the gear while sheltering under my brolly. The walk back was decidedly wet in torrential rain and unpleasant but it was worthwhile, as I secured another SOTA Complete on my way to the 1000 target I am aiming to reach in 2022 before I turn 70... </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWZjLJYOfLtrdchXCL-QeWZxr6DW7ZEg48GiFYLa3HLqhkj0lmjo7BFbhfp6OG6EH_cIUaame7jYLWv9_1NaH_H96oVsjBXSgyT3EU8Oty-mHju2D3FkxQeWqmw-z2Wf6DuJ8xt2fO_Ly/s867/ScreenHunter+704.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="867" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWZjLJYOfLtrdchXCL-QeWZxr6DW7ZEg48GiFYLa3HLqhkj0lmjo7BFbhfp6OG6EH_cIUaame7jYLWv9_1NaH_H96oVsjBXSgyT3EU8Oty-mHju2D3FkxQeWqmw-z2Wf6DuJ8xt2fO_Ly/w640-h356/ScreenHunter+704.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The drive to my guest house in Annan </span><span style="font-family: arial;">in the pouring rain</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">was uneventful. After a change of clothes there I headed back out into the rain to have a lonely Indian meal in the dimly lit Sitar Restaurant - I was their only customer!</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-57004615386048502482021-09-13T23:59:00.024+01:002022-03-05T09:28:55.216+00:00GM/SS-236 Corse Hill (Whitelee Wind Farm)<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It was a 32 mile, 55 minute drive from Blaeloch Hill car park to the hamlet of Carrot near to NS 576483, my start point and parking place for the ride to the summit of Corse Hill. The Sat Nav took me via Dalry and Stewarton. I encountered a small diversion due to a road closure on the way. At Carrot there was room to safely park at the track junction.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAlgu0OAljyGgK6AjPYsqLwgEczxlMNPii1b4IInHD3XVZxjYhaiWq4-9GTXpXt4avQeFEY7kFx4bgNdmxQgVP6PcTJJz7ygCqpkrzaBDZ3qdGFr0TBSjqkSXLrQDB4rnNtjpuUx6fdLSa/s1272/ScreenHunter+678.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1272" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAlgu0OAljyGgK6AjPYsqLwgEczxlMNPii1b4IInHD3XVZxjYhaiWq4-9GTXpXt4avQeFEY7kFx4bgNdmxQgVP6PcTJJz7ygCqpkrzaBDZ3qdGFr0TBSjqkSXLrQDB4rnNtjpuUx6fdLSa/w640-h426/ScreenHunter+678.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption">Bike route out and return via unmarked track through NS 575473 (2014 mapping</td></tr></tbody></table></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Just beyond the track junction a bridleway goes left to avoid the homes in the hamlet. I was trying to ride my bike all the way to the summit, but before I reached the track at NS 579581 I had to push for a bit due to a heavy gate and a rough section crossing the burn. It took 22 minutes to reach the summit trig point, which was over a distance of 2.4 miles. A good time saver compared to walking and less tiring by using the e-bike again, as I did a few hours earlier on Blaeloch Hill. <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFy11Z90bENMyGVQbSA3JmIbFhNbf9cti3V7vJvMFaW5e8-_HN7i9asrfdNKtYQ4DmmEd0SPyEssoE4I6MRvRVb7oeN8Y0JT0PmYjgjUAVMcO1S3pVx5NzSnEA1h6MO-0um4oC3uHBCWLl/s3264/Corse+Hill+SS-236+trig.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFy11Z90bENMyGVQbSA3JmIbFhNbf9cti3V7vJvMFaW5e8-_HN7i9asrfdNKtYQ4DmmEd0SPyEssoE4I6MRvRVb7oeN8Y0JT0PmYjgjUAVMcO1S3pVx5NzSnEA1h6MO-0um4oC3uHBCWLl/w640-h480/Corse+Hill+SS-236+trig.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRnVOEkcGxBEL4OLijSFVYWhoieXKIYwNCUpt7ZBH6BbUHxpj6de60PDkAfS3HnCnQfilVn8BCJMyuCJDoYJ4r5gknk49FMqx52XLYWl0bWawp7WH8VjOz7z3DfW6kQ4P5T4YFs1mO2U26/s3144/Corse+Hill+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2278" data-original-width="3144" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRnVOEkcGxBEL4OLijSFVYWhoieXKIYwNCUpt7ZBH6BbUHxpj6de60PDkAfS3HnCnQfilVn8BCJMyuCJDoYJ4r5gknk49FMqx52XLYWl0bWawp7WH8VjOz7z3DfW6kQ4P5T4YFs1mO2U26/w640-h464/Corse+Hill+2.jpg" width="640" /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD6-0JuvovbQpyCJJnjSXbNxik_elF3jsyAN8glMJOK6QFBAGclKab8vT012yGXvkvbA305b7JlaWShLHrTb3qnmZlmiorF8bM6FtMzeNkb5Vujd9PNUd4X9tKMr7IXXwrXUI8IrwQHqRW/s3220/Corse+Hill+camera.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3220" data-original-width="2388" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD6-0JuvovbQpyCJJnjSXbNxik_elF3jsyAN8glMJOK6QFBAGclKab8vT012yGXvkvbA305b7JlaWShLHrTb3qnmZlmiorF8bM6FtMzeNkb5Vujd9PNUd4X9tKMr7IXXwrXUI8IrwQHqRW/w474-h640/Corse+Hill+camera.jpg" width="474" /></a></td></tr><tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This nice little mast on Corse Hill supports a Webcam</span></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It was 1600z when I got started on the 60m band. My friend Nick G4OOE in Scarborough was first in the log on the international part of the band - 5354 KHz in CW. Propagation was stretching out as far Italy and Fabio IK2LEY was again logged. Time was short as I had a 220 mile drive back to North Yorkshire, so I restricted my acitvity to 60m CW/SSB and 40m CW. There was no apparent interference from the enormous Whitelee Wind Farm, which I was in the middle of, unlike my experience earlier in the month on Meikle Says Law GM/SS-148, where the interference, especially on 60m, was dreadful. The only noise I heard was the movement of the turbine blades, quite spooky and the feeling of being watched by a webcam close to the trig point which was moving about and probably capturing my activity. Between 1600z and 1627z I logged 24 stations. After packing up I made a short and very amateurish video of the summit, which is now on YouTube:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="355" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M_gUdH3IGsI" width="427" youtube-src-id="M_gUdH3IGsI"></iframe></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To save getting off the bike on the way back I took a longer route on a track that was not on my map. It brought me out where I wanted it to by my car. I had a reasonable drive home, discovering that the KFC outlet on the A66 roundabout at Penrith was now closed. The Burger King on the other side of the M6 was open but had toilets "closed for cleaning". A likely story....</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> I didn't buy from there. </span></span> So I drove into Penrith by the railway station, for a McDonalds Burger, which was barely warm. I shan't be going there again. Returning to the A66 the Appleby bypass was being resurfaced, so a convoy system was being deployed at night to safeguard the workers. Sutton Bank near Thirsk was closed for two weeks, causing a further delay. I arrived home in Pickering at around 2300 local time. <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Over the two day trip I had four SOTA Completes out of the five I had hoped to do, 103 SOTA QSOs, 11 S2S. This takes me on to 940 Completes. 548 Miles driven on the road trip.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I hope to get back over the border this year before it gets too cold - but that's after a 10 day SOTA Tour with Victor GI4ONL in Northern Portugal in early October. </span></span><br /></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-10990065129575577062021-09-13T23:59:00.023+01:002022-03-05T09:28:41.058+00:00SOTA GM/SS-236 Corse Hill 13/09/2021<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">After leaving <i><b><a href="https://catterblog.blogspot.com/2021/09/gmss-220-blaeloch-hill-kelburn-wind-farm.html" target="_blank">Blaeloch Hill GM/SS-220</a></b></i> I made my way to my 3rd and final summit of the day, which was Corse Hill GM/SS-236. This was another summit on the large Whitelee Wind Farm to which I could cycle to the top. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I parked up on a road junction near the hamlet of Carrot where there was just room to safely leave my car (NS 576483). Here is my cycle route out and back: </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqdNKhHXlSVI3OXCRa6UZXv52Z18QyNX4ahKmP9YFxDks3hQyxe8HEnVtY-PMUtTNNNbGEHjr0otUlCRb3ZdlOEsCc6TjmPWk92AROe9p1QAnieRwdIJY6jnN4Tw-qsYHKYfcj9AzMpEX3chtNrcQpF76VZfUG5KPYdjQ4svkEfI4ofXl4iEw1zAmCRA=s892" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="892" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqdNKhHXlSVI3OXCRa6UZXv52Z18QyNX4ahKmP9YFxDks3hQyxe8HEnVtY-PMUtTNNNbGEHjr0otUlCRb3ZdlOEsCc6TjmPWk92AROe9p1QAnieRwdIJY6jnN4Tw-qsYHKYfcj9AzMpEX3chtNrcQpF76VZfUG5KPYdjQ4svkEfI4ofXl4iEw1zAmCRA=w640-h384" width="640" /></a></div>©Crown copyright 2021 Ordnance Survey Media 018/21<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Apart from a short walking section at the north side of Carrot it was a easy ride on well graded tracks to the summit which took just 20 minutes. I operated at the trig point in view of a CCTV camera on a monitoring mast close to me. I did not detect any intereference from nearby wind turbines on the 60m and 40m bands. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheoTukjVGJxIwTB8q3-tKLSFkI-czA01f00PlU6OgAITN5ggJMdszh84pLJ6bw7XYF_zSRIdZDPiGsiNHc_B6S8Q8XCuIEb5fTnxSAPj1p0JI___TN2V2D7YnYYH3DZxrNE_rFglPb4AONI0R8up2w1jmWzv5JD_8qcdG8NQGOmQ5mz5UfeH6URiDVlg=s3150" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2290" data-original-width="3150" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheoTukjVGJxIwTB8q3-tKLSFkI-czA01f00PlU6OgAITN5ggJMdszh84pLJ6bw7XYF_zSRIdZDPiGsiNHc_B6S8Q8XCuIEb5fTnxSAPj1p0JI___TN2V2D7YnYYH3DZxrNE_rFglPb4AONI0R8up2w1jmWzv5JD_8qcdG8NQGOmQ5mz5UfeH6URiDVlg=w640-h466" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgei6RDHRPZWOU3wDfMnaXiaTufk34Z_RCdw-Et1qduB020xfDbGVzuwt-0nzbGThLRxbiOdVeVAIPbuPgtm47bPYGdayJMe9XDobPL4tZarFXfoDZa1l_8s72wlmmjN9WuUBra6eszZ_HWe0ChSMgdr-61w9o80Gzgqy5LV65Ju7-1FxJVgvMO1VP-nA=s3264" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgei6RDHRPZWOU3wDfMnaXiaTufk34Z_RCdw-Et1qduB020xfDbGVzuwt-0nzbGThLRxbiOdVeVAIPbuPgtm47bPYGdayJMe9XDobPL4tZarFXfoDZa1l_8s72wlmmjN9WuUBra6eszZ_HWe0ChSMgdr-61w9o80Gzgqy5LV65Ju7-1FxJVgvMO1VP-nA=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJPs7b3Gp3f7m3OqY9mDUxuW-yYdELwh0eiGqrwzyM8j-VCPY4bClwATlx8GWs6-r208BfxUUzXCRTp-yV2p23r6Ja-RhLgK9WMs_u0cIc13ch500x4UuPKtHMrv-geUXdc22IM-B66gMDx2LLwfrfMBRouuYgkjfds1vJ1be7MZs0wZw4URDuHsr7FQ=s3006" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="3006" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJPs7b3Gp3f7m3OqY9mDUxuW-yYdELwh0eiGqrwzyM8j-VCPY4bClwATlx8GWs6-r208BfxUUzXCRTp-yV2p23r6Ja-RhLgK9WMs_u0cIc13ch500x4UuPKtHMrv-geUXdc22IM-B66gMDx2LLwfrfMBRouuYgkjfds1vJ1be7MZs0wZw4URDuHsr7FQ=w640-h436" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyAvHE-oM4H-IGQi-L2gZrDsYQ-2uVzf8jPi5NtOgeZQtpgjwLNKaxkuo2zdSYkZl2InSKYYnGzJNtVl81Xy0HFesACbJCrylfmOvg5Btowg0zksuUgdEtbJ6HNpYc8tt4bDdXNtrr60tq1xEvXAatUb5jC40PAWe72XRvUszzgcceOGzTcYMQRrkilA=s3264" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyAvHE-oM4H-IGQi-L2gZrDsYQ-2uVzf8jPi5NtOgeZQtpgjwLNKaxkuo2zdSYkZl2InSKYYnGzJNtVl81Xy0HFesACbJCrylfmOvg5Btowg0zksuUgdEtbJ6HNpYc8tt4bDdXNtrr60tq1xEvXAatUb5jC40PAWe72XRvUszzgcceOGzTcYMQRrkilA=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFrrpEZRt0UhkLrsejxPrjG7t97IfRBDeBfgpdmTHYR8rFfYv2wthwnixuXt5TRTyJAZqZFXTghTHcHt05ji5zkwhfT42aqHk6p-fg_tIEXmhnCRJUEvAi2qlqh8lf7sNvX-10vLDlNvUdiL7k4pbZcIu60Yt0amLf896hlBqhs_xpROwPk7V12aDd7Q=s3220" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3220" data-original-width="2388" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFrrpEZRt0UhkLrsejxPrjG7t97IfRBDeBfgpdmTHYR8rFfYv2wthwnixuXt5TRTyJAZqZFXTghTHcHt05ji5zkwhfT42aqHk6p-fg_tIEXmhnCRJUEvAi2qlqh8lf7sNvX-10vLDlNvUdiL7k4pbZcIu60Yt0amLf896hlBqhs_xpROwPk7V12aDd7Q=w474-h640" width="474" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">CCTV Camera adjacent to the trig point</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">I operated from 1600z-1627z and made 24 contacts before "pulling the plug". It had been a long day with three SOTA Completes in the bag but I still had over 200 miles to drive home, so the activity was neccesarily brief.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">I decided to take a slightly different route back to the car, which meant I did not need to get off my bike at all. I rode south and then west from the junction at NS 583474 as shown on the map. After filling up the car at a supermarket on the outskirts of East Kilbride I made it to Penrith for some food, reaching home just after 22:00z. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><p></p>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-21397320174371110922021-09-13T23:00:00.022+01:002021-09-17T17:31:33.375+01:00GM/SS-220 Blaeloch Hill (Kelburn Wind Farm)<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">A 55 mile drive from Grey Hill via Ayr and Irvine brought me to the parking place by the A760 near Largs, for GM/SS-220 Blaeloch Hill, on which Kelburn Wind Farm is located. The parking place is located adjacent to The Clyde Crematorium which looked quite new. There is no vehicular access to the site for the public, however a bridleway gate is fitted by the locked gate for horse riders, cyclists and walkers, who are encouraged to access the site for leisure purposes. <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtPmS54MjwRiJ7FSoh7cvuWO95obs9yBsfee-ObFt-fFVJNE2HAdhjsjKO2WCXzGZ6Re0sWIn90QODYW8CtCcQR1BvJtfT7T3Ci5l9IWeny36XmJWpUU_ieFlOT_EI1WnZe47x2ijKJ4t4/s3254/Kelburn+Wind+Farm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2434" data-original-width="3254" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtPmS54MjwRiJ7FSoh7cvuWO95obs9yBsfee-ObFt-fFVJNE2HAdhjsjKO2WCXzGZ6Re0sWIn90QODYW8CtCcQR1BvJtfT7T3Ci5l9IWeny36XmJWpUU_ieFlOT_EI1WnZe47x2ijKJ4t4/w640-h478/Kelburn+Wind+Farm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUNXQjqX__ARwaRJxfQI570GUNQ7yMscQdALL8fClE_KXbUlqMm-PTathTVVPRp2N0xT_Vkw2iWaxquthW8vny6Xm_mxenty7HT_adAUXuW3qbfLd8vdEKNeUOwmaiGU-ZEU2D9dj1iuDR/s3246/Parking+SS-220.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2424" data-original-width="3246" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUNXQjqX__ARwaRJxfQI570GUNQ7yMscQdALL8fClE_KXbUlqMm-PTathTVVPRp2N0xT_Vkw2iWaxquthW8vny6Xm_mxenty7HT_adAUXuW3qbfLd8vdEKNeUOwmaiGU-ZEU2D9dj1iuDR/w640-h478/Parking+SS-220.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Parking place for the public to use - the Clyde Crematorium can be seen to the left</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The plan was to activate this summit via bicycle with the last section over the moor on foot. One way this was two miles by bike and about 600m on foot to reach the highest point which was "trigless". The ride up on my Bergamont e-bike took me 14 minutes and the walk just 7 minutes. I bought the bike over two years ago and apart from <a href="https://catterblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/" target="_blank"><i><b>one SOTA ride to activate Round Hill G/TW-001</b></i></a>, it has just been used for social riding around where I live. The bike is standard as it came out of the factory, except I fitted a saddlebag and a pair of Schwalbe Smart Sam tyres, which are more suitable for the types of tracks and terrain I need to ride on. I carry the radio, antenna and battery in the saddlebag and transfer it to the rucksack when I leave the bike. I was pleased to finally use the bike to bag some unique Scottish SOTA Completes. As a very active Chaser the only contact I had with SS-220 was with Helen MM0YHB/P in July 2014 on 40m SSB - this was despite the summit already having been activated 32 times prior to my visit. After the ride up I locked the bike up on the ground near the turbines and proceeded on foot to the small cairn on the summit, which was able to support my 5m pole and link dipole:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRlAn2qyK26n4ItqPNdKpzI5jn6TIJOBat_lfV-24RRaOc1VUmxVhqvncV1GG1BB7eOIrdH6la7xDSliMdwjN80sfGyIi6UUAKTQernoXXUCy8Uv_h0q5WrGUvwAqX3bVWZHKi7DkqtjAZ/s3150/Bike+dump+SS-220.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2290" data-original-width="3150" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRlAn2qyK26n4ItqPNdKpzI5jn6TIJOBat_lfV-24RRaOc1VUmxVhqvncV1GG1BB7eOIrdH6la7xDSliMdwjN80sfGyIi6UUAKTQernoXXUCy8Uv_h0q5WrGUvwAqX3bVWZHKi7DkqtjAZ/w640-h466/Bike+dump+SS-220.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_iQ3AdVAqr5XApuLKEBQmTgL3JtK8KcqflaGNH3amHDDXgBYl1KXVKXTazbvuhwDnQGOOGQ95Y2DYIJy5AftCCC65mYphEpfOcecBwXWvm3fYKPMowHpFHq9eOnJEoVs3wDYzmnea6Rk/s3264/SS-220+activation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_iQ3AdVAqr5XApuLKEBQmTgL3JtK8KcqflaGNH3amHDDXgBYl1KXVKXTazbvuhwDnQGOOGQ95Y2DYIJy5AftCCC65mYphEpfOcecBwXWvm3fYKPMowHpFHq9eOnJEoVs3wDYzmnea6Rk/w640-h480/SS-220+activation.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio5i765Sk9UjifnTrJyy7WRgkwuin72JvtFpCa9n3HXdmFbmFuruI1jd5CnTKkUqX9dmqGIIJbIo8k_YEwpnBplCQrM9TnJY1yfO5KS-TADP7_V7bD0qhlwIGLqzu3PP0vFs6DiP7dqLJR/s3182/Cairn+SS-220.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2334" data-original-width="3182" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio5i765Sk9UjifnTrJyy7WRgkwuin72JvtFpCa9n3HXdmFbmFuruI1jd5CnTKkUqX9dmqGIIJbIo8k_YEwpnBplCQrM9TnJY1yfO5KS-TADP7_V7bD0qhlwIGLqzu3PP0vFs6DiP7dqLJR/w640-h470/Cairn+SS-220.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">HF band conditions were fair - 25 contacts were accrued in 30 minutes on 60m, 40m and 30m in CW and SSB. I cut the activation short as I had another wind farm summit to go to - Corse Hill GM/SS-236, which is a few miles from East Kilbride, and a 38 mile drive from my location. Once again, Victor GI4ONL was my first contact: <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy94GZdOz8yWJZh2JPPmg5I7MuBp2ejOb8RsXkPTTIdxq4emTLJBFw_Nv2c6NlOQqfKDMzk8dpQ_XIqfBA8L6Wk_cCdGx0yhbmx6ukqpgtLpBnxysp6grU5YTN4KrPUKO4T2cEyEyFba9U/s1147/ScreenHunter+676.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="1147" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy94GZdOz8yWJZh2JPPmg5I7MuBp2ejOb8RsXkPTTIdxq4emTLJBFw_Nv2c6NlOQqfKDMzk8dpQ_XIqfBA8L6Wk_cCdGx0yhbmx6ukqpgtLpBnxysp6grU5YTN4KrPUKO4T2cEyEyFba9U/w640-h248/ScreenHunter+676.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932664685895819777.post-36048257108940030322021-09-13T22:00:00.016+01:002021-09-17T00:13:28.559+01:00GM/SS-256 Grey Hill - September 2021<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">From my digs in Creetown I drove for an hour to reach a good parking place for activating Grey Hill GM/SS-256. It was an enjoyable early morning drive via Newton Stewart and then north on the A714 via Barrhill. There must have been over 20 Wind Farm installation staff in their oncoming vehicles going to work on the latest project in the area, and they weren't hanging around... I parked on the backroad between Pinmore and Lendalfoot near Knocklaugh Farm and walked down the hill to start my walk. A field gate 100m off the lane takes you on to open fell and there was just one wall to climb to reach the summit. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7_vgGbBfD4uvFJ8yb0WEC6kzGfO9MmqI6DL3ONnYzkMartCV0Ye3bVtNaA_Kqyk1Kfh2N32j9g84qQPuvdL7oRqpBLm-rMg1iyaA2DG_l-9gwzQ7AsXzpDXvD5XB7WtnYmZ9P-E8gnre2/s3264/Parking+for+Grey+Hill.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7_vgGbBfD4uvFJ8yb0WEC6kzGfO9MmqI6DL3ONnYzkMartCV0Ye3bVtNaA_Kqyk1Kfh2N32j9g84qQPuvdL7oRqpBLm-rMg1iyaA2DG_l-9gwzQ7AsXzpDXvD5XB7WtnYmZ9P-E8gnre2/w640-h480/Parking+for+Grey+Hill.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Parking just above Knocklaugh Farm</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0gdcGuE0_DayfpN8S3ze48GJ-RmNn1sEIQmg0caKbBwGtb40BpPF4u3_SlWIGu0b7eIQCP_9AsqNEHLLLFgh9kHEebYRyTYbLz7o9_b28B6oNcH5b4IqOONpx65frvNud72p2Nqz_alJF/s3262/Access+to+Grey+Hill.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2446" data-original-width="3262" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0gdcGuE0_DayfpN8S3ze48GJ-RmNn1sEIQmg0caKbBwGtb40BpPF4u3_SlWIGu0b7eIQCP_9AsqNEHLLLFgh9kHEebYRyTYbLz7o9_b28B6oNcH5b4IqOONpx65frvNud72p2Nqz_alJF/w640-h480/Access+to+Grey+Hill.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The field gate at NX 1712 9188 gives access to the flank of Grey Hill from the south</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1zhnM7hc_zvfH1WyjrlXeR9aiFhd3DW3s3DZ5bx-GMDLPPQ76mWt8ifH1_AYpmGADyLYTzVwIebanjWDO1p-a6nSUw3grPzLYLuXWo5epVbwWMcF1OayYyqaa9E2NSAxuhUHPdRzqi-rJ/s607/ScreenHunter+675.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="607" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1zhnM7hc_zvfH1WyjrlXeR9aiFhd3DW3s3DZ5bx-GMDLPPQ76mWt8ifH1_AYpmGADyLYTzVwIebanjWDO1p-a6nSUw3grPzLYLuXWo5epVbwWMcF1OayYyqaa9E2NSAxuhUHPdRzqi-rJ/w640-h508/ScreenHunter+675.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Good route to SS-256 - there were some quad tracks to follow higher up</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The view from the top towards Ailsa Craig GM/SS-246 took me back to the memorable trip organised by Jimmy M0MGY and his Dad Tom M1EYP in August 2009:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsYctCak9nl-ZQkVu203v3dhvLZQ4wwO_vyk-XGFIzzVJ2v7Wd_MzsXwrBcgcNPCZbKtmj4IuSj3CMp0u4jbzQKDzzuSZL8hY9WRuDdtJOD09sVPTA1YPlIHd7tUp-ogZvdiIk_VqRtNki/s3202/Grey+Hill+4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2362" data-original-width="3202" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsYctCak9nl-ZQkVu203v3dhvLZQ4wwO_vyk-XGFIzzVJ2v7Wd_MzsXwrBcgcNPCZbKtmj4IuSj3CMp0u4jbzQKDzzuSZL8hY9WRuDdtJOD09sVPTA1YPlIHd7tUp-ogZvdiIk_VqRtNki/w640-h472/Grey+Hill+4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIOaKzuo1Ocx9iig2_0HSfXLyEo7QiK6ReOkyYDZkucaxR8gEaBjmikRIu60VxC5VDVbSNlUPiiocmDRCeXrbUIF4b-q6Kemvh2nhFxjVbAXFmCP0NQVU3AFFi1oJncEJdW3TU12pjgR2/s3258/Grey+Hill+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2440" data-original-width="3258" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIOaKzuo1Ocx9iig2_0HSfXLyEo7QiK6ReOkyYDZkucaxR8gEaBjmikRIu60VxC5VDVbSNlUPiiocmDRCeXrbUIF4b-q6Kemvh2nhFxjVbAXFmCP0NQVU3AFFi1oJncEJdW3TU12pjgR2/w640-h480/Grey+Hill+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I pegged out my link dipole for 60m-20m into the strong wind, which was coming from the south. It's quite surprising when the land falls away like it does on both sides of Grey Hill and the dipole ends fall close to the ground on a 5m pole, how well you can progagate a signal on HF - my best DX with 10 watts CW on 20m was Indonesia, with a contact with YC2VOC - operator Galih who penned me this message after our QSO, very nice:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipF95xq9gfhUO9altnOE4-82EwC371vw4livMiMj-xVsAqTjMLYjogHkcmbYPMHioyGhvjLMr_Fc-z9B6cjX5SzK7kxlCchZalTwnrElvfdL7jiNOBLDzaY0dQ5LonKyDDKDXzUV10qWD7/s473/ScreenHunter+676.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="473" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipF95xq9gfhUO9altnOE4-82EwC371vw4livMiMj-xVsAqTjMLYjogHkcmbYPMHioyGhvjLMr_Fc-z9B6cjX5SzK7kxlCchZalTwnrElvfdL7jiNOBLDzaY0dQ5LonKyDDKDXzUV10qWD7/w400-h194/ScreenHunter+676.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I started operating on 60m at 0822z. My friend Victor GI4ONL was waiting for me on 5354 KHZ CW. I finished at 0907z on 20m CW with another good friend, IK2LEY Fabio (I always think of ILKLEY whenever I hear Fabio's call - a town in West Yorkshire!). There were a nice handful of S2S contacts including Armin EA/DL6GCA/P on his holiday in the Navarra region in the Basque area of Northern Spain. 40m SSB was dissapointing with only one QSO with GM7NZI Ray, who lives near Glasgow, then there were unanswered CQ calls on a clear frequency. Yet minutes before I had scored 11 contacts on CW on the same band. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxsXYPQD11nFhtD30_bqFYPEGpQpNh9zi6N3pG2u_x72q13u2p8x01qKh_EOoi6D1qUbrKyV1kzMSvfvH-B1Njh3_4DHG3pagC5Ttf0twwdCZh_7unO_3ZqJXmGQ09qoie0L0k2Lb_kncr/s3264/Grimacing+in+the+wind+on+Grey+Hill.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxsXYPQD11nFhtD30_bqFYPEGpQpNh9zi6N3pG2u_x72q13u2p8x01qKh_EOoi6D1qUbrKyV1kzMSvfvH-B1Njh3_4DHG3pagC5Ttf0twwdCZh_7unO_3ZqJXmGQ09qoie0L0k2Lb_kncr/w640-h480/Grimacing+in+the+wind+on+Grey+Hill.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Grimacing in the wind on Grey Hill after packing up my station</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It was time to move on so the DXer headed back down the hill after 34 QSOs. There were two more activations planned for later in the day some distance away from this one so I had to get going...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcynNMgFWJJkh5S8IYcwDRBMIGxALb8WSUx5zILQz_4pzONMwM-b7VAW7tTDToXn0b5QNLGJWnzRa2K5PwtHoFUGtvp11jx1mRjMUuv6i9COb4j6FDEZE_dGBBkjWHbMGEwQH4noRVSoTd/s3154/Fruity+gate.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2294" data-original-width="3154" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcynNMgFWJJkh5S8IYcwDRBMIGxALb8WSUx5zILQz_4pzONMwM-b7VAW7tTDToXn0b5QNLGJWnzRa2K5PwtHoFUGtvp11jx1mRjMUuv6i9COb4j6FDEZE_dGBBkjWHbMGEwQH4noRVSoTd/w640-h466/Fruity+gate.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">At the gate near the road I feasted on a few ripened blackberries before getting back into the car and driving north to Largs for my next summit.</span></div></div></div></div></div>Phil G4OBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885446417340467985noreply@blogger.com2