Hi Fraser,
Great job, well done!
Your success just inspired me to give it a try tomorrow morning as well.
I’ve just entered an alert for HB/BL-014 from 5:30 UTC on and hope to get my first S2S with VK or ZL into the log. Currently there are no alerts from VK or ZK at this time, but @DD5LP will be also looking for VK/ZL a bit later on. So guys and girls from down under, give it a try, before the geomagnetic forecast gets worse on Friday.
I already activated this low summit this year, but it’s quick to reach from home, not surrounded by too many trees and has a bench.
The best takeoff from this summit is towards S/E, but I already did several contacts from there to North and Central America, also a S2S with @AJ2I.
I’ll use my typical setup with an EFHW antenna in inverted-L configuration and 10W SSB.
I’ll enable the speech compressor and reduce the TX-bandwidth a bit, for additional punch.
Fraser, maybe we’ll have a S2S later on, when you’re on GM/ES-070?
73 Stephan