I still have my log from that day on Gun, Tom, it’s filed in the “Digipan” log, trouble is, so are dozens of other entries, and I’ve no way of knowing which are which!
You have highlighted something that I should have been doing all along, since my first PSK contact in Dec 2003 - putting the operating location in the notes section, as I’ve gone along, or at the end of the session.
There are also entries where I’ve operated as 9H3JS in Malta, and as G8HWI with an appropriate prefix in Durban ZA, none of those are shown separately, either.
The software sends out whatever callsign that you have entered into the “Personal” box, [own callsign, callsign/P, callsign prefixed or suffixed], but it doesn’t enter them into your log - a major failing.
I can sort out my foreign operations, and enter them in, because I know when I travelled, and in fact I will do that, and from now on, I will enter my location[s] in the notes.
When I operated in Malta it wasn’t from the highest point, unfortunately, although I have visited it, just to say that I had, I usually operate from my own personal shack on the island.
I say “personal shack”, it’s the concrete pillbox which is the bus stop, outside the “Sweetheart Gardens” at Gharusa, on the outskirts of Mosta - very handy, the bus drops you off, and then you can hop on a later one, and go for a sandwich and a glass or two of “pop” in Mosta centre.
You do tend to get some funny looks when you get off the bus at Gharusa, armed with a fishing rod, plus a rucksac, [which obviously must contain hooks, floats, bait, etc] - crazy English, there’s no water here!
Ron, I’d love to compile a list of easy accesses, but I am now realising that what works for me, wouldn’t necessarily work for others - I can manage a stile, albeit not as quickly as I used to, but another person may not be able to manage it at all.
Wheelchair access I cannot comment on, because I don’t use one - probably depends on the skills and strength of the individual rider?
Could I suggest that a list of the most likely be placed on here - comprising those that you have all contributed, itself easily accessible, with the facility for those who attempt them, to attach notes to each entry - again, it’s back to the fact that there is no “standard” disability.
That is, if it’s not too great a task to create in software.
I think that all that can be done, for me, is to visit those which you have suggested, and make my own notes as to how I managed, for my own future reference - I will report back here on my attempts, [but not today please, it’s blowing a gale, and Pluvius is busy - his best work is passing my window - horizontally!
John
