Hi,
I had planned a two summit activation today,asWX was great all along the week.
Contrary to what I was expecting I arrived in Saioa EA2/NV-021 in bad conditions. When I left the car there was a heavy wind, and all covered by a dense fog.
I would have abandoned my idea but I trusted on my GPS who guided me safely though the forest. There was snow on the way up but I managed to pass across.
The summit was also covered by fog: no more than 10m visibility in all directions. I settled my vertical Ant and used a guy line to avoid it from collapsing; wind was severe and I found a tiny shelter on the trig point.
I started on 24CW without much success. Then qsy 14SSB and found HB9BIN/P, bingo! Gracias Jorge fere S2S!
I had high SWR and my reports were poor there.
After anumber of quick qso, I finally moved to 10CW with a FB SWR reading. Nice Pile up there but I was getting cold. Every now and then I had to put up the antenna because ofthe wind.
When I finished I decided to cancel my second planned summit of the day NV-023.
On the way down two mountaineers, a father and his 6 yr old son who arrived in the summit when I was packing, followed me down as they were lost in the fog.
Our GPS served me well. Better to keep the second summit for another day…
Thanks for all your calls and CU soon. VY 73
Ignacio EA2BD