Appalachian Trail long distance hiking w/ SOTA

[DL6GCA]

@DO4SKY

and I don’t carry a pole with me

Maybe it helps:

Turning hiking sticks to the antenna mast without special parts

It’s probably not new to some people… but maybe it will help one Sometimes, especially on longer, steeper hikes, I don’t want to carry an antenna mast to the summit. Then I take my hiking poles and turn them into an antenna mast, which I stick into a bush or between stones. I put it together with the handle loops and fix it with the Velcro straps that I use to hold the antenna wires and coax cables together. If you tighten the Velcro straps properly, it is quite stable. It’s about 2.50 m high…

Have a nice trip

73 Armin