European SOTA Activity Day Part 2 - Reports

It was great fun!

Prepared with enough food and liquid, I activated on DM/BW-002 during about 9 hours and put 114 QSOs in the log, of which 69 were S2S.

In the middle of the following picture, one can see in the background the slightly higher and highest summit of the Black Forrest DM/BW-001.

This time I brought a second mast with me, allowing to keep the end of my resonant 7-band EFHW antenna in inverted-L configuration higher than usual. The antenna wire is about 20m long with one coil that can be bypassed (will be described in a future document).

As usual, on HF I used 5W SSB from my FT-818, this time with an additional LiPo, which after about 6 hours was necessary, when my internal Windcamp 33Wh LiPo was used up. Conditions were “meh” and I didn’t even gave 17m a try.

On 2m FM, I used my Handheld with a Chinese RH-770 clone antenna with SMA connector and reached far into the Swiss Alps.

The summit got pretty busy after noon, but luckily there was a lot of space for everybody. Many hikers were interested in what I was doing and seemed to like the combination of outdoor sport and technology.

The WX started sunny and pretty warm for this altitude in September, but got covered up later on.

Thank you to all participants and organizers of this event!

73 Stephan

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