17-Aug-12
Battery: #1. Activation: #23
Summit: G/SP-015. Band: 30m
Radio: Rockmite 30
Antenna: Inverted V Dipole @ 6m agl
Battery: Duracell Pro-Life
Finish Voltage at room temp: Not a clue
New DXCCs: 0
Cumulative DXCCs: 19 (9A, DL, G, GM, HA, HB, I, LA, LZ, OE, OK, OM, OZ, PA, RA, S5, SM, SP, SV)
QSOs: 0. Cumulative QSOs: 74
In reply to M0CGH:
"The RockMite seems to work very well for the PP3 challenge, I actually think that the PP3’s are lasting too long! I think boredom sets in before the battery has run out! AAA challenge anyone? CR2032? 
"
Zinc and copper rods in a potato?
How about all man-powered using one of those little hand-compression generators stripped out of a torch, it would make a nice challenge.
73
Brian G8ADD
In reply to G8ADD:
Hello.
My last PP3 was short-circuit last time when used and totally depleted.
In my favorit the Philips type battery it is actually 6 x AAAA 1,5v cells in series inside the battery casing.
I think we can determinate that PP3 give god service on QRPp rigs.
73 and god luck with future adventures.
LA1KHA Kjell
New battery for my Rockmite now.:
BATTERY 6 Philips Ultra Alkaline
Nice to qso LA1ENA/P on LA/TM-013 s2s
Stats:06/01/2013
Battery: #6
Activation: #1
Summit: LA/TM-049
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage:not checked @-4c
QSOs: 5
DXCCs: 5 DL,F,LA,LY,OM
Cumulative QSOs: 5
Cumulative DXCC: 5 (DL,F,LA,LY,OM )
73 de LA1KHA Kjell
Stats:21/04/2013
Battery: #6
Activation: #2
Summit: LA/TM-049
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage:not checked
QSOs: 7
DXCCs: 6 DL,F,G,HB9,LA,OM
Cumulative QSOs: 12
Cumulative DXCC: 7 (DL,F,G,HB9,LA,LY,OM )
Temp 8c and nice wx,
Tanks for lots of QRPp fun
73 de LA1KHA Kjell
In reply to LA1KHA:
Hi Kjell…
Unbelievable signal yesterday from you. Real 579 some qsb but loud for 100mW.
I was on my “high power 5watt” station
best 73 de Tom
DL1DVE
Tanks for info DL1DVE Tom. It was relative strong wind so antenna was bouncing around a lot. I have fun with my small radio…
Planing a OZ trip with my XYL so I bring my QRPp rig and a 30m dipole. Hope to activate one or more summits.
Stats:23/04/2013
Battery: #6
Activation: #3
Summit: LA/TM-049
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage:not checked
QSOs: 8
DXCCs: 5 DL,G,LA,OE,PA
Cumulative QSOs: 20
Cumulative DXCC: 9 (DL,F,G,HB9,LA,LY,OE,OM,PA )
73 de LA1KHA Kjell
Stats:27/04/2013
Battery: #6
Activation: #4
Summit: OZ/OZ-001
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage:not checked
QSOs: 11
DXCCs: 9 DL,G,GI,HA,OE,OK,OM,S5 and YL
Cumulative QSOs: 31
Cumulative DXCC: 14 (DL,F,G,GI,HA,HB9,LA,LY,OE,OK,OM,PA,S5,YL )
Stats:27/04/2013
Battery: #6
Activation: #5
Summit: OZ/OZ-004
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage:not checked
QSOs: 7
DXCCs: 6 F,HA,G,OK,OM and LA
Cumulative QSOs: 38
Cumulative DXCC: 14 (DL,F,G,GI,HA,HB9,LA,LY,OE,OK,OM,PA,S5,YL )
Stats:27/04/2013
Battery: #6
Activation: #6
Summit: OZ/OZ-008
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage:not checked
QSOs: 9
DXCCs: 4 G,GI,OH and OK
Cumulative QSOs: 42
Cumulative DXCC: 15 (DL,F,G,GI,HA,HB9,LA,LY,OE,OH,OK,OM,PA,S5,YL )
And one S2s with G4ISJ/P in G/CE-001
Stats:28/04/2013
Battery: #6
Activation: #7
Summit: OZ/OZ-006
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage:not checked
QSOs: 8
DXCCs: 6 DL,G,LA,OK,ON and OM,
Cumulative QSOs: 50
Cumulative DXCC: 16 (DL,F,G,GI,HA,HB9,LA,LY,OE,OH,OK,OM,ON,PA,S5,YL )
Stats:28/04/2013
Battery: #6
Activation: #8
Summit: OZ/OZ-012
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage:not checked
QSOs: 15
DXCCs: 10 DL,G,GM,HA,LA,LY,OK,ON,OM and UR
Cumulative QSOs: 65
Cumulative DXCC: 18 (DL,F,G,GI,GM,HA,HB9,LA,LY,OE,OH,OK,OM,ON,PA,S5,UR,YL )
Here is the all QRPp Sota trip log to OZ.
Stats:30/04/2013
Battery: #6
Activation: #9
Summit: oz/oz-007
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage:not checked
QSOs: 7
DXCCs: 5 DL,G,GW,LA and ON
Cumulative QSOs: 72
Cumulative DXCC: 19 (DL,F,G,GI,GM,GW,HA,HB9,LA,LY,OE,OH,OK,OM,ON,PA,S5,UR,YL )
S2s MW6GRW/P IN GW/NW-063
73 de LA1KHA Kjell
Battery: #2 Panasonic Evolta
Activation #3
Date: 08/09/13
Summit: G/LD-031 Birks Fell
Bands: 30m
Finish Voltage: 8.98v
Rig: RockMite 30
Ant: Inv. Vee dipole at 6m above ground
QSOs: 1
DXCC - 1 - DL,
Cumulative QSOs:15
Cumulative DXCC: 5
DL,G,GI,GM,GW,PA
Recent discussions about RockMites prompted me to try out one of mine on my activation yesterday.
I managed one contact using the battery I last used in December, interestingly the battery voltage has gone up after nine months of rest!
Thanks to Frid, DL1FU for the contact under very difficult conditions, I had extreme QRM which just sounded like wideband noise with occasional data bursts, a quick search on the Internet suggests that this might be over the horizon radar, whatever it was it made the band usuable for me with the DC receiver.
Colin, M1BUU
Battery: #2 Panasonic Evolta
Activation #4
Date: 12/01/14
Summit: G/NP-028 Rombalds Moor
Bands: 30m
Finish Voltage: 8.85v
Rig: Home Brew challenge rig based on RockMite
Ant: Inv. Vee dipole at 6m above ground
QSOs: 8
DXCC - 5 - EA,DL,OE,PA,SP
Cumulative QSOs:23
Cumulative DXCC: 9
EA,DL,G,GI,GM,GW,OE,PA,SP
Today I used my bothy bag and was actually too warm with my down jacket on over my fleece. I still seemed to be struggling with my CW after having an atrocious time on the key during my activation of Pendle Hill yesterday.
Thanks to the chasers!
73, Colin M1BUU
Battery: #2 Panasonic Evolta
Activation #5
Date: 07/02/15
Summit: G/NP-028 Rombalds Moor
Bands: 30m
Finish Voltage: 8.86v (after almost 13 months rest voltage gone up!)
Rig: Home Brew challenge rig based on RockMite
Ant: Inv. Vee dipole at 6m above ground
QSOs: 15
DXCC - 8 - EA,DL,F,G,OE,OK,OM,OZ
Cumulative QSOs:38
Cumulative DXCC: 13
EA,F,DL,G,GI,GM,GW,OE,OK,OM,OZ,PA,SP
Battery: #2 Panasonic Evolta
Activation #6
Date: 15/03/15
Summit: G/NP-010 Pen Y Ghent
Bands: 20m
Finish Voltage: N/A
Rig: Modified K1SWL RockMite20
Ant: Inv. Vee dipole at 6m above ground
QSOs: 9
DXCC - 5 - 9A,EA,DL,I,OK
Cumulative QSOs: 47
Cumulative DXCC: 15
9A,EA,F,DL,G,GI,GM,GW,I,OE,OK,OM,OZ,PA,SP
Battery: #2 Panasonic Evolta
Activation #7
Date: 15/03/15
Summit: G/NP-017 Fountains Fell
Bands: 20m
Finish Voltage: 8.73v
Rig: Modified K1SWL RockMite20
Ant: Inv. Vee dipole at 6m above ground
QSOs: 11 S2S with LA1ENA/P LA/TM-244, DX QSO with N1EU
DXCC - 7 - EA,CT,DL,HB9,I,LA,K
Cumulative QSOs:58
Cumulative DXCC: 19
9A,CT,EA,F,DL,G,GI,GM,GW,HB9,I,K,LA,OE,OK,OM,OZ,PA,SP
Was amazed when Barry N1EU called me, this is the second time he’s worked me on my milliwatt adventures. Not sure what the power output of my RockMite 20 is, but my standard RM20 running from 12V puts out about 330mW. I’m guessing that my challenge RM-20 would have been putting out something in the region of 150 to 200mW. Feeder loss somewhere around 1dB.
73, Colin M1BUU
Battery: #2 Panasonic Evolta
Activation #8
Date: 25/02/16
Summit: G/NP-028 Rombalds Moor
Bands: 20m, 30m
Finish Voltage: 8.70v
Rig: Modified K1SWL RockMite20, Home brew RockMite 30
Ant: Inv. Vee dipole at 8m above ground
QSOs: 9
DXCC - 4 - DL,K,OE,SM
Cumulative QSOs:67
Cumulative DXCC: 20
9A,CT,EA,F,DL,G,GI,GM,GW,HB9,I,K,LA,OE,OK,OM,OZ,PA,SM,SP
Now running with a home programmed PIC in the home brew RM-30.
Today was just a live CW practice session really, I needed a booster session as my next SOTA outing is not until next weekend.
73, Colin M1BUU
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Battery: “Biltema” brand PP3 9v low price battery
Cumulative QSOs: 28
Cumulative DXCC:11 (DL ,F, G ,GI,HA, HB9,LA,OE,OK,PA,SP)
Logg see sota or below.
LNR Mountain Topper 3B
Stats:16/04/2016
Battery: #7
Activation: #1
Summit: LA/TM-049
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage: not measured
QSOs: 2
DXCCs: 2 DL and G
Cumulative QSOs: 2
Cumulative DXCC: 2 (DL, G)
Stats:17/04/2016
Battery: #7
Activation: #2
Summit: LA/TM-049
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage: not measured
QSOs: 9
DXCCs: 6 DL, F, G, GI, HA and, OK
Cumulative QSOs: 11
Cumulative DXCC: 5 (DL, F, G, GI, HA,OK)
Stats:18/04/2016
Battery: #7
Activation: #3
Summit: LA/TM-049
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage: not measured
QSOs: 5
DXCCs: 5 DL, HA, LA and SP
Cumulative QSOs: 16
Cumulative DXCC: 8(DL,F,G,GI,HA,LA,OK,SP)
Stats:19/04/2016
Battery: #7
Activation: #4
Summit: LA/TM-049
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage: 7,6v
QSOs: 4
DXCCs: 4 HA, HB9 ,OE and OK
Cumulative QSOs: 20
Cumulative DXCC: 10 (DL ,F, G ,GI,HA, HB9,LA,OE,OK,SP)
Stats:22/04/2016
Battery: #7
Activation: #5
Summit: LA/TM-049
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage: 6,9v
QSOs: 8
DXCCs: 4 DL, G,HB9 and PA
Cumulative QSOs: 28
Cumulative DXCC: 11 (DL ,F, G ,GI,HA, HB9,LA,OE,OK,PA,SP)
The mountain topper is a nice radio ,but with its powerfull PA it use current lika a drunken seaman use money after 9 month to sea.
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Hi Kjell,
nice to see, that in your new challenge, I had the honor to be the first logged station.
On my summit DL/MF-082 I also used the same type of boozy, sottish (by intention without intermediate “c” ;-)) MTR3B radio. but on my side hopelessly over-powered with 11V.
Thanks for the S2S.
73 Stephan, DM1LE
Some snow on activation today. Temp +4c.
Happy with my MTR 3B mods, but power is to high.
Would like to have 100mW and 3W option.
Battery: “Biltema” brand PP3 9v low price battery
Cumulative QSOs: 37
Cumulative DXCC: 11 (DL,EI,F,G,GW,HA,HB9,I,LA,OE,ON,S5)
Stats:24/04/2016
Battery: #7
Activation: #6
Summit: LA/TM-049
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage: 7v@ +4C
QSOs: 9
DXCCs: 4 DL ,OK, LA and SP
Cumulative QSOs: 37
Cumulative DXCC: 11 (DL ,F, G ,GI,HA, HB9,LA,OE,OK,PA,SP)
73 de LA1KHA Kjell
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Hej Kjell…
Tnx for QRPppppppp Qso and testing me :). he he.
Soo…What ist the result TRX- cable- antenna ?? ~circa in the dbm??.
Vy 73 de Rob(ert) SP8RHP.
Battery: #2 Panasonic Evolta
Activation #9
Date: 24/04/16
Summit: G/NP-028 Rombalds Moor
Bands: 30m
Finish Voltage: 8.67v
Rig: Home brew RockMite 30
Ant: Inv. Vee dipole at 6m above ground
QSOs: 3
DXCC - 2 - EA,SM
Cumulative QSOs:70
Cumulative DXCC: 20
9A,CT,EA,F,DL,G,GI,GM,GW,HB9,I,K,LA,OE,OK,OM,OZ,PA,SM,SP
Kjell has been out playing with his new toy, an MTR-3B, so I decided to have a go with the old home brew challenge rig again. I had a short window of free time this morning, so I headed across town to Rombald’s Moor, G/NP-028. I also used the opportunity to fine tune my new 40/30/20/17/15m dipole which I built to compliment my MTR-5B. I’d taken my hefty FT817 along to provide the RF for VSWR measurement but I ran out of time to use it for QSOs!
I had been disappointed that I had had to use a pre-programmed PIC in my home brew rig, so for a mini project earlier this year, I had a go at programming my own RockMite controller chip. At first I struggled to get the 12C508A chip to program right with my cheap far east PIC programmer. I decided to try a Flash chip instead, the 12F508, and it programmed with the RockMite code on the first try! I put the 12F508 into the challenge rig and it worked sort of ok - certainly usable - but the timing was slightly different. Anyway, in the end I figured out how to program my 12C508A chips and today I plugged in the home blown chip into the home made rig - very satisfying!
The PIC chips run from an internal oscillator, maybe the 12C and 12F types are very slightly different.
A number of CQ calls only resulted in three QSO’s, EB1EVX, EA1CVZ and SM4BNZ - many thanks to those stations! I think the band conditions must have been poor, but I still find it amazing having QSO’s with such a simple rig and low energy power source!
A shame that I didn’t manage to ‘qualify’ the summit but after a number of CQ’s I felt I didn’t want to waste any more battery capacity.
73, Colin
My compliments to M1BUU Colin for his activations. Nice.
Congrats on your homemade el-keyer.
Drove to the summit on my way home from work.
Still snowing, but only a little stayed as snow on the ground due to temp is +2C .
Had little time as XYL Ingrid was going out and I promised to come home early…
LA3NGA Henning was first qso.
With the high output from the MTR 3B and a dipole for 10Mc in direction SW at 6m qso is easyer.
But battery will run out long before 100 QSO I think.
Tanks for all fun today.
73 de LA1KHA Kjell
Battery: “Biltema” brand PP3 9v low price battery
Stats:25/04/2016
Battery: #7
Activation: #7
Summit: LA/TM-049
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage: ?@2C
QSOs: 8
DXCCs: 7 G, OK, ON, OM, LA, PA and SP
Cumulative QSOs: 45
Cumulative DXCC: 13 (DL ,F, G ,GI,HA, HB9,LA,OE,OK,ON,OM,PA,SP)
Battery: “Biltema” brand PP3 9v low price battery
Stats:26/04/2016
Battery: #7
Activation: #8
Summit: LA/TM-049
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage: ?@2C
QSOs: 2
DXCCs: 2 HA and LA
Cumulative QSOs: 47
Cumulative DXCC: 13 (DL ,F, G ,GI,HA, HB9,LA,OE,OK,ON,OM,PA,SP)
Stats:27/04/2016
Battery: #7
Activation: #9
Summit: LA/TM-049
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage: 7.04@10C
QSOs: 5
DXCCs: 4 DL, OE, LA and SP
Cumulative QSOs: 51
Cumulative DXCC: 13 (DL ,F, G ,GI,HA, HB9,LA,OE,OK,ON,OM,PA,SP)
Activation on May 1st.
Only qso with LA1ENA Aage , he noticed that my signals faded from 599 with KX1 radio on 6 X AA cells to MTR 3B on a low cost battery PP3 9v
Stats:01/05/2016
Battery: #7
Activation: #10
Summit: LA/TM-049
Band: 30m
Finish Voltage: ?
QSOs: 1
DXCCs: 1 LA
Cumulative QSOs: 52
Cumulative DXCC: 13 (DL ,F, G ,GI,HA, HB9,LA,OE,OK,ON,OM,PA,SP)