Having found a cheap routing into Korea via Japan that allows me to indulge in some SOTA prior to a work trip, I’ll be activating two JA associations on Friday and Saturday, and following it up with HL on Sunday.
I’ve posted alerts for Japan, where I’ll be activating as JI1GBE, and for Seoul where I’m licensed as HL1ZIH. I’m particularly looking for DX on Friday and Sunday; I suspect the Saturday activation will be too tight for HF antennas, so will be 6m/2m/70cm only. VOACAP suggests NA and EU might be possible on 20m and 17m CW and I will pack the key.
For any of the JA folks around on the Friday evening, we’ll be having a SOTA dinner in Akihabara - Toru has the details!
Looking forward to working as many folks as possible, and activating associations 16 and 17 if all goes to plan!
No luck my end. 14.280 seemed to be occupied by a middle eastern station working the US. Has one contact Paul, in VK5. Much more noise than usually experienced at Ainslie. Good luck with the next ones.
Andrew VK1MBE
Heard you S2S with JH1IHV/1 on 6m. I did the QSO with him on 50.230 and saw your spot on 50.240. Somehow it was too faint to be workable though. Maybe next time. Hope you had a good time in JA and that HL will treat you well too.
A pity we could not work, and missed you at the SOTA gathering at Akihabara. Hopefully next time I come to North Asia! We had limited time on IB-003, so I kept the activation to about 30 minutes.
Too bad Andrew, maybe next time. I have to admit that I am not much of a drinker but somehow when I go hiking with my friend Thierry (F4EGG), we always end-up with quite a few bottles of white beer at the summit. Anyway, it looks like you add a good time. The good news is that I have spent some time on the other topic we’ve been working on together offline and you should have an email with some updates that hopefully will allow you to move forward.