Here my activation video from 6th of April during the S2S event to VK/ZL/JA.
No success for any SOTA DX for me but a lot of contacts all over Europe with plent of S2S.
And some new callsigns in my log.
Meet Jürg @HB9BIN in person during our OE5 SOTA day last September and now managed a S2S. And Mark @M0NOM and myself were commenting on Youtube about an S2S and that also happend.
Thanks to Mike @2E0YYY got also one of the event organizers in the log.
Congrats to everyone managing a DX S2S. Looking forward to the next chance.
Some picture and the video:
Following the creek in the valley named Dorngraben
Ah Jo, as soon as we had our qso realised it was you otherwise you’d have known how excited I was that we’d finally managed a S2S.
Thanks as always for the excellent video, I know how much effort they take. I was at an art gallery last week and one of the artists work consisted of a short film. I asked her to estimate how much editing it took for a minute in the final film and she said she thought it was about a day.
Keep up the excellence in SOTA Jo, hopefully we’ll get another S2S during the Lake District SOTA weekend.
For me it was the same situation. After the QSO I realized: Of course I know the callsign - that was Mark.
Your picture in the other thread from your summit in the Lake District also looks great. Very nice colours.
Regarding the video editing I have established a way (and put together the tools) to make the editing quite efficient. If there is interest I can post a little summary of my workflow?
When is the LD SOTA Weekend. Need to make a note in my calender for some S2S if I am available.
Oh I’m afraid it is very, very low tech at the moment - my Android phone with the Sound Recorder app running, with the phone sat on the grass next to the transceiver! The Yaesu transceivers sound particularly good however when listening to SSB, I could not believe the FT-817 when I first heard a station with good audio, such a big sound coming from such a small box!
With my KX3 I’m currently putting together a lead which will allow me to record direct from the transceiver via a headphone splitter. This will also be able to utilise the monitor function on the transceiver so I can record my audio as after processing as well.
Thanks for the info on your recording setup. As I might have mentioned I have a Garmin Virb Elite which I will try instead of the phone next time I’m out, and hopefully with the KX3 it will allow me to mix and match the audio direct with background audio.