Activation report from LA/RL-062 Boknafjellet

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Today I activated LA/RL-062 Boknafjellet.

I started off before sunrise, and was at the parking lot around 8 local time. Vertical ascent is 193 meters, and horizontal distance is 1.3 km. This makes for a very steep but short ascent, which took me around 30 minutes in the fresh snow today.

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Traditional pile of rocks marking the summit. In the background you can see the island I live on

WX forecast said sun, but sadly they were a bit off on that. Conditions on the summit were chilly; 0 °C, winds of 10 - 15 meters per second and at times heavy snowfall made the activation less comfortable than expected.

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A small hint of sun in the distance

I stayed on the summit for 1.5 hours, and got a total of 16 QSO’s, some quite long. It was a nice change to do some ragchewing on a summit, and not just pileups. The longest QSO was with a tourist on EA8.

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Some of the QSO’s

Thanks to all chasers

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Comparing antenna sizes, (Mine is the small one closer to the camera)

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Well Done Kjetil,
I did try to call (close to the end of your activation on 40m I think) but you were fairly weak with me and then a high power station came up about 1kHz off your frequency, so there was no chance then!

73 Ed DD5LP.

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Sorry I missed you. At the end on 40m there was a very strong station that bumped me over to 20m. I didn’t have much more luck there, but at least there was no major QRM on my end at least.

Let’s hope we meet under better conditions and WX :wink: 73