Using the “window” in the usual bad autumn weather, Marat RA9WJV and I visited a beautiful corner of the Southern Urals.
Well, and besides, we activated a new summit and just had a wonderful time in nature. Personally, I did not want to overcome the many obstacles at all, as it was during my recent trip to R9U/SO-012, SO-034. Therefore, the choice was not difficult to make. We just got together in the evening and got into the car in the morning. 300 km by car and quite a bit with a backpack on your shoulders. The ascent is simple, the forest is “transparent”, and clear weather gave visibility for many tens of kilometers.
There was practically no wind, which simply tormented us at R9U/SO-012 - just perfect conditions for climbing and activating!
At the summit there is a comfortable and almost flat rocky area surrounded by a low birch forest. We installed the equipment and turned on the radio …
At first I was QRV on 14 MHz CW, and Marat on VHF FM.
This time I was really tired of working in a quickly assembled pileup! Amazingly, some of our hobby colleagues do not want to hear and listen(
Despite my directed call (for example, “CQ UK”), some continued to stubbornly transmit their callsign not from the UK… I am very ashamed that perhaps I did not hear many of those, who really needed this summit and this activation. On the moment when the disorder reached its climax, I decided to work Split and said “CQ UP1 2.” But, unfortunately, someone consciously began to heavy QRM and I switched back to the simplex at 14059 KHz.
I am very grateful to those who patiently waited for their turn, to those who, respecting their colleagues, listened more to my not very powerful signals. Thanks to those who helped keep order. I well remember “PSE LSN”, it supported me.
My attempts to “put things in order” were not very effective. I became nervous and made mistakes. Perhaps a more experienced radio operator would be more successful with this pileup.
Marat, having made several VHF QSOs, managed to communicate with several visitors to the summit. I just didn’t pay attention to these people, as I was completely focused on the signals. I could and wanted to bring this matter to the end, but Marat politely waited next to him. And people in headphones behind HF transceivers were waiting for him …
I was shaking a little with emotions, but I gave way to Marat’s transceiver - it was his time!
I think that he will better tell about his activation himself. I tried as best I could to help and prompt him, since Marat used the built-in speaker. But, perhaps, I interfered with him more, since mine, louder, was added to a large number of signals in the loudspeaker))
There was a small spot error. Our colleague has entered the wrong callsign. And at one time Marat was told “Thank you Vlad”. Marat once by mistake passed the wrong reference “053” and this further confused our correspondents. But soon everything was back to normal, thanks to everyone who sent the spots!
It’s a pity, the sun running towards the horizon has limited our time at the top. I had to finish activating and packing the equipment. We ran down to the car parked at the gas station. It was necessary to find a place for the camp before dark.
And we managed to find such a place, next to a mountain stream, already with the last rays of the sun.
I was not very happy with my work on the air, but in the sotal our trip turned out to be very successful!
Thanks to all the “summit hunters”!
73!
Vlad
