9V Singapore activation

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Hello,

I will be in Singapore next week. I will activate the only “summit” 9V/SG001 with my temporary call 9V1BV. I will also activate some parks on the POTA program.
I will be active CW on 40/30 and 20m (perhaps 15m) with a QMX 5W. It would be great if I could make a QSO with a European station ( with other stations also of course !!) … Do you have any advice to help me be successful in this target ( UTC Time, Band …) ??

73, Nico F5MDY

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Depending on the time of day the summit can be short of room, but aim to be looking for chasers in VK and JA and choose bands accordingly, 20 and 15 may be your best options. The summit is actually lower than many of the surrounding apartment blocks so VHF is tough unless you have a sked lined up.

Reach out to Harish 9V1HP who is the AM who may be able to help. Tell him I said hi!

Cheers,
Andrew

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Nico,

For what it’s worth.
This afternoon we had an activation in 9m2 which is a bit to the North of Singapore. 40 m was no go here and 15 m initially was very scratchy. But by 0725 signals were good copy here and I worked both operators. I had to bail out so maybe they got better or maybe they dissapated.

Earlier in the afternoon I worked a few Eu countries, including France on FT8,again on 15 m.

If you put up an alert I and other VKs could be listening.

Contacts to JA on 15 m should be reasonably easy.

EU seems best here about half an hour before local sunset.

73
Ron
VK3AFW.

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Any plans to visit 9M2? We have 373 SOTA summits you can choose.

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Thank you for these information … I plan to be active next Monday. Sunset is 19h15 (UTC+8) but the park will close à 19h … I will start at 17h. We will see …

73 Nico

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I have got a short agenda, unfortunately … but thank you for your offer !!
Best 73 Nico F5MDY - 9V1BV

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Sorry Nico,I missed you.

You were much later than I expected and I wasn’t looking.

I hope you got some good contacts.

73
Ron
VK3AFW

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Thank Ron,

My feedback about ham radio traffic in this beautiful city.

  1. if you ask for a temporary license you can make some local contact via the VHF/UHF relay which covers the town.
  2. for HF it is more difficult … 40m and 30m are deserted. I made a few contacts in CW on 20m (J / DU7 / YB …) I eared VK and ZL but I was too weak ( 5W / Vertical multiband).
  3. my disappointment was that there were a lot of stations in FT8 but few in CW …
  4. after one date of traffic with 9V1BV, the Singapore administration sent me an email and ask me to finally use the call : 9V1/F5MDY … they made a mistake …
  5. there are a lot of POTA spots, with large green areas to put an antenna
  6. I bring my homemade LiOn pack with a Chinese balanced BMS. I don’t know if it was a problem of temperature but at the startup the protection triggers and no power … I had to shortcut the PMOS transistor at the ground pole in order to reset the BMS. fortunately I had a piece of wire with me !!!

So the traffic is different than in Europe, where even with a QRP setup you can easily make some contacts. But the experience was interesting, people were friendly, and the city exciting.

73, Nico

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Hi Nico,
Thanks for the report and the pictures. I’m glad you got some SOTA and POTA contacts.

That is useful info re 2 m contacts. Thankyou.

Yes its different in this part of the World. There are fewer amateurs and more jungle.

For me the Japanese stations provide some nice DX for SOTA. Otherwise I am reliant on a few stations about 600 km away in VK2 and VK5 if ground wave fails. Apart from Japan, compared to Europe and the USA there are not a lot of amateurs around and fewer are interested in SOTA.

Qualifying on 10 m is a challenge and 40 and 20 m are the fall back bands.

I hope you enjoyed your trip and completed your objectives.

73
Ron
VK3AFW.

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