Well I’m getting through uploading my activation videos from EA8 now and I’m rather proud of this one. The summit itself is a small one pointer but the QSO I captured in the video is pretty special to me.
Activating on 10m I decided to try some QRPp contacts using just 100mW out and managed to work a few G stations including @G4OBK and G0UIH (featured in the video here). Conditions on 10m were obviously very good and later this same day I worked WD9Q on 400mW and K2JB on 500mW from Guardilama (EA8/LA-004)
I’m quite a fan of low power operating; it’s always a rush to have a station come back to your call at such minuscule power. 100mW on SSB is quite impressive, glad you posted the video. GL on the hills.
72 - Bob
Thanks Bob - you’re right, it was a rush and still is! Just shows that when conditions are right QRP is all you need - conversely I operated in a 6m contest this week where conditions were dire and I (for the first time) considered life too short for QRP
HA, I’ve said the same thing. At times you can’t get a contact to save your life, other times it seems like you can’t miss. A few weeks ago I was trying to work K1N on 160m at 100w, just sitting in the pile up, calling and calling with no luck. The following week I ended up stuck in a snowstorm at my work QTH in Albany, with nothing more than a K1 and a 44’ doublet. Finding K1N on 20m, I started listening to the stations he was working, adjusting the split a bit below or a bit above, depending on where he was going in the pile up. I was into hour 2 when I finally got him, when I heard W2CKL/QRP TU, I was in shock. HA. QRP does seem to be a game of strategy. Maybe this will lead to another SOTA Milliwatt challenge?
GUD DX
Bob
I’d not seen this one before Steve. Thanks for the mention on the locks, it used to be like that on NW-044 before the rotating padlock mechanism was installed, brings back memories of the mid 90’s.
