Stopped for food and I have amended my alert times and refs for the rest of today to save RBN confusion etc.
If I have time to reach the lift up to DL/AM-060 Laber when it is open on my way back to Garmisch I will try to activate it. This will be late afternoon after around 90 mins from QRT on DL/AM-176.
Thanks for all QSOs so far especially the early risers this morning when I was on AM-177.
73 de Phil
PS Thanks to helpful tips gathered from DD5LP blog last night when planning tour! Thanks very much to Ed…
Dr OM Phil,
Many thanks for the QSO’s this morning.
Talking about rain, I looked for Saturday in Friedrichshaven. There is in the forecast over 90 mm expected that day.
Hope to see you on Ham Radio.
73 de geert pa7zee
He’s just broken my number of peaks in a day in DL - I had five, he’s just done SEVEN! I had another two that I had planned to fit in on the next multi-summit attempt making 7, looks like I’ll have to find another one (or 2), to keep the number rising.
Bagged him on 6 of the 7 summits - Rentschen DL/AL-176 missed (and if you look at the activator list on that summit, you’ll see why I “should” have got him there - it’s my try out changed equipment summit).
All in good fun - I’ll be waiting for better weather than Phil had as well!
I think you and Mike G6TUH had me on six out of seven. I had to send several repeat overs to several chasers who could not hear my QRP signal so well… it is usually the same guys every time. A few did not make it into the log despite repeated attempts. There has to be a limit on the schedule as to how many times you go back to a caller and there is silence.
I am too tired to enter my log tonight. but I want to prepare it so it can form part of my presentation at Friedrichshafen as an explanation of the importation of a data file into our fantastic SOTA database.
I don’t think any chaser worked me on all seven summits. I worked plenty of UK stations in CW and SSB
Yes, that was me captured on the hazy webcam. The latter picture must have been when I was untying my dipole from the tree above the windsock support as I can only see my rucksack on the bench. I got the last cable car down at 16.55 pm local time with the ladies who work in the cafe, saved my knees of over 2500 feet of descent I believe, so glad I could get it in time.
I enjoyed a dark Weiss Beer in a backstreet tavern in Oberammergau before returning to Garmisch. A good days work for me - 7 SOTA Completes, 168 QSOs with 198 minutes of operating time, about 2/3rds CW 1/3rd SSB. Many operators were late on parade…or I was a little early with the UK time difference. I only scraped 6 QSOs with five operators on the first early summit AM-177, which was hard work. The 2nd summit AM-178 I got rained on and was in fear of radio damage so I packed up after just 15 QSOs on 40m. Otherwise 20m, 30m 40m used on all other summits.
Most unusual contact was with LA4CIA/AM on 20m SSB who was captaining a Boeing 737 on the Portugal, and I made 9 S2S contacts throughout the day.
On the roads I see you also have white van man in Germany too… however the standard of driving otherwise I find to be excellent. I am driving a petrol Toyota Avensis Estate hire car this week.
Look forward to meeting you and lots of others such as Geert (Logged several times today - thanks for the FN weather forecast…despite gloomy - its best to know) at the show on Saturday.
Yes indeed Phil . I get up about between 0530-0630 BST and I was listening to BBC Radio4 and having a coffee so was elsewhere on your first summit…should have checked before the coffee …oh well.
The beer sounds good and I suspect you may have another before returning home
Night night.
Mike
Sorry there was no reception with OE5. I had a bad start on 40m from Zugspitz with restrictions due to the sheer number of people and trying to find a place to set up. Once I was QRV I had lots of questions and a few daft comments! I sited the inverted vee dipole along the balustrade railings which affected the matching on 40m, so I didn’t get out so well with a high SWR. On 30m and 20m there was no problem and I finished with 35 QSOs (9 SSB & 26 CW) over the 45 minutes of operation. Looking at the log I counted up - I have personally met 12 of the operators I logged. A few pictures from today, my lunch, the operator, the European flag flying on Zugspitz, Yaesu QRP station by the railings.
“come the revolution comrades”, the first up against the wall to be shot after the politicians will be the weather forecasters!! (Just joking but their forecasts of late have also been a JOKE!). Talk about inaccurate …
Hence what comes at Friedrichshafen, comes - the whole area is covered - so no problem from rain, and air condtioned so protection from the, more likely, heat wave!
Yes, fingers crossed it goes the way I want it to Sylvia …cannot reveal how I cast my postal vote last week as politics are not allowed on reflector…
Many moons ago, when I was in the army in (West) Germany, we used to visit the summit of the Zugspitze to get the stamp in our passports as there was a border crossing of sorts up there.
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. I get up about between 0530-0630 BST and I was listening to BBC Radio4 and having a coffee so was elsewhere on your first summit…should have checked before the coffee …oh well.
Just joking but their forecasts of late have also been a JOKE!). Talk about inaccurate …