Hi Armin and everyone,
as you may have seen, Bert (DF3FS) and I are planning to be on summits in HBØ the coming weekend. We are concentrating on HF, but I will have my handheld VHF radio with me and be QRV on 145.500 fm. Would be great to work you on Blößling and Belchen and many more stations around.
73
Chris DL4FO
I gave up to call CQ myself. Again and again stations came near to my frequency, which made about 100khz of my receiver unusable. That’s why I tuned over the band.
ODX was S57O with 650km. Unfortunately, I could not get to HA2R and 9A2RD, they had good signals … but I had only 3 watts and 6Elt.
Result: It is worthwhile to be on the summit during a contest.
Sri guys, the wx messed up our plans. We wanted to do the Schneekoppe OK/KR-001 hike yesterday, but it was raining and the risk of thunderstorms in the Giant Mountains. So we had to postpone it till today. No way to schlepp my vhf gear with me on a 30 km trail. Hence no ssb activation, however I successfully activated OK/KR-001 by my vhf handheld. :9 https://aprs.fi/#!mt=hybrid&z=17&ts=1564876800&te=1564963200&call=a%2FDG7ACF-7
I will for sure be out on Tuesday night. See my alert.
Yep, not a bad day. For my first 2m SSB contests as single operator. Especially as I just finished the 3D printed parts for a 4 element yagi this Saturday.
39 QSO on 2m SSB with some S2S because of the Bergtag contest at the same time.
Next year I have an even better QTH in mind…, Let’s see
ODX with DR2X: 438km
I used Tucnak on an Android tablet for logging which worked pretty well.
3 times I needed to cover all the radio gear under raincoat and the solar panel. A fun adventure overall.
Update: Now that I see the map it is clear that I was too close to high mountains for any pass over southward the alpine ridge. Next time I need to be higher up
I should have been min. 100 km more to the east. I have heard many qso’s from OK or Bavaria with S5 or I. So I was in the side of their beam. Maybe next time I’ll take a Summit on the Swabian Alb …
In any case, I would like to have more power … 3 W are pretty little … but I also have no desire to carry a big battery onto the summit… we’ll see - You can always improve.
