Battery: #2 Panasonic Evolta
Activation #1
Date: 01/12/12
Summit: G/LD-017 Red Screes
Bands: 40m,30m
Finish Voltage: N/A
Rig: RockMite 40 and homebrew RockMite 30
Ant: Inv. Vee dipole at 6m above ground
QSOs: 14 (6 on 30m, 8 on 40m)
DXCC - 5 - DL, G, GI, GM, GW and PA
Cumulative QSOs:14
Cumulative DXCC: 5
DL,G,GI,GM,GW,PA
WX: Sunny, cold, shallow covering of snow, path very icy.
Battery: #2 Panasonic Evolta
Activation #2
Date: 01/12/12
Summit: G/LD-018 Stony Cove Pike
Bands: 30m
Finish Voltage: 8.95
Rig: Homebrew RockMite 30
Ant: Inv. Vee dipole at 6m above ground
QSOs: 0 (6 on 30m, 8 on 40m)
DXCC - 0
Cumulative QSOs:14
Cumulative DXCC: 5
DL,G,GI,GM,GW,PA
WX: Sunny, cold, shallow covering of snow. Breezy
I decided to retire my original challenge battery and begin the winter bonus period with a fresh Panasonic Evolta battery. The Panasonic Evolta range includes a product that is recognised by the Guiness Book of Records as the Worldās longest lasting Alkaline battery. http://www.panasonic.com/evolta/
The 30m and 40m bands were very busy, stations replying to my CQās were often sending āQRMā along with my report.
I ran out of time before I ran out of chasers on 40m on the first summit. 40m seems to a more productive band for numbers of QSOās for this challenge. 30m promotes longer distance contacts, useful for gaining new DXCCs.
There was simply far too much band activity on both 30m and 40m whilst on the second summit, daylight was running out, so I dug out the MTR which I had taken along as a back - up. A pile up was soon created on 14.063MHz, allowing me to at least collect the points from the summit, if not qualify it using QRPp, which was my aim.
Colin, M0CGH