Gratuliere Markus zum Mounten Goat.
Danke für die Sota Verbindungen.
73 IW3AGO
Congratulations Markus on achieving Mountain Goat. Eva HB9FPM und Andy HB9JOE
Well done Markus! Hope to work you S2S soon.
73 de OE6FEG
Matt
Congrats Markus! didn’t realise that today when we were talking - very well done!
Esther
GI0AZA
Hi Markus
Congratulations on your mountain goat ! Keep going
vy 73 s Bruno HB9CBR
Congratulations Markus for the MG status.
73,
Guru
Congratulations Markus for reaching MG status.
73’s
David
G4ZAO
Hi Markus,
Congratulations on achieving Mountain Goat. Tks for working me several times!
73,Sake PA0SKP
Gratuliere, Markus!
73 de Jens, HB9EKO
Dear all
Thanks a lot for all your kind words of appreciation. I’ve enjoyed reading all postings and seeing your hearts. It’s about three years ago when I decided to start a second amateur radio life after thirty years of board work for our local Radio Club. I should gain more practical experience and do amateur radio henceforth instead of only administering it.
Those were the days of the decision to buy my first own shortwave radio in 2016. It was a KX2, since it should be a portable radio and had ufb testimonials. I didn’t want to set up a permanent big station in my town with all its electronic noise and difficult neighbours. I simply imagined that SOTA could be my playground since I love my country and its diversity in geography and could even find a reason to hike regularly.
And it was a good decision. I started 2 years ago in May 2017 with a test activation on my home hill Sonnenberg. I had well prepared this kick-off over the winter period by reading articles, talking to people, participating in a preparatory course, watching tons of Youtube videos and discussing the antenna with HB9BXE. This test activation was a success with Mariusz, SP9AMH, as my first QSO partner and Manuel, HB9DQM, as my first S2S partner. Waiting for the voices after a spot is for me as fascinating as in the beginning – even now.
What else? Continue! I suppose that I can aim now more to the Gourmet components of the programme instead of collect the points on any possible occasion. At least I hope so. At present, I enjoy travelling throughout the Bavarian and Bohemian Forest and discover not only their summits but also the regional culture, hospitality and cuisine.
And how was the Mountain Goat activation?
What could I do to let my Mountain Goat activation become something special? I had collected 990 points before these holidays, so a single (and the first) 10-pointer of my holidays would be the special day. I’m not an ibex type to do a first activation somewhere high up in the Swiss Alps. My type of summits are lower regions and since the holiday region was set, I simply had to choose an appropriate summit around Grainet in the Bavarian Forest. I had the idea to invite other activators of the region to the summit and to do a co-activation. I had Sylvia, OE5YYN, and Peter, OE5AUL, in mind and asked them to meet on the Plöckenstein summit, former OE/OO-066 and nowadays OK/JC-001, top summit of the Bohemian Forest.
They agreed, despite a car travel of 90 minutes and a hiking time of 90 minutes for one direction. Unfortunaltely the weather forecast was not favorable, so they had to resign due to heavy rain in their region. We started our Dreisessel tour of day 1 of our own and had the umbrella open on the border ridge. The rain was strong enough and I resigned to build up the shortwave equipment. Thanks to Sylvia, Peter and two other locals around OE5 I could make the necessary four contacts on 2 m FM.
So it was not an opulent MG activation, but we kept the good mood on the Czech Dreisessel OK/JC-003. I had found a place just beside the trail with a natural support for the umbrella, so the equipment could be kept dry. We drank the bubbly by ourselves and had a pleasant day in this beautiful and impressive border region.
I’d like to thank all and everyone contributing to 2 happy years of SOTA and growing up this mountain goat, especially HB9BXE as my mentor and discussion partner, the fellows of our local SOTA club HB9SOTA.ch and you the chasers and S2S partners. A special thanks aims to my partner for supporting me in this time consuming hobby since we do most activations as family activations and are happy with it. And thanks for all your nice comments on the bands during the past activations in the region, here on the reflector or by e-mail.
Cu on the bands, and vy 73 de Markus, HB9DIZ
Congratulations Markus.
Lee N7LP
Well done Marcus, I thought you must be on a mission as your callsign kept cropping up on every activation or chase session!!!
I’ve a long way to go yet.
Here’s to the next 1,000 points.
Mark. M0NOM
Congratulations Markus and have fun in the region.
73 de Michael, DB7MM
Lieber Markus
Im Namen des Vorstandes von HB9SOTA gratuliere ich dir ganz herzlich zum Diplom “Mountain Goat.” Mach weiter so!
73 de HB9BIN, Juerg
CONGRATULATIONS MARKUS! Always good to hear you on
a summit. Keep up the good work!
de John Paul // AB4PP
Hoi Markus
Jetzt haben wir uns doch soooo fest vorgenommen Deine Aktivitäten zu verfolgen, damit wir es auf keinen Fall verpassen, wenn Du die 1000er-Marke knackst …und doch hätten wir’s fast verpasst …aber nur fast …und so gratulieren auch wir ganz herzlich zum Mountain Goat und freuen uns schon jetzt riesig auf unser nächstes S2S-QSO mit Dir - wenn alles gut geht, dann könnte es übers Auffahrtswochenende von unserer Seite klappen
Bis dahin beste 73 de René, HB9NBG und 73/88 de Carine, HB9FZC
Congratulations, Markus!
73 de Rumen/LZ2AF
Hello Markus,
Just had a short qso with you now at DM/BM-263!
Thanks for your words above. It was the rigth decision to get back to the hobby and play SOTA on hill tops.
I wish you have many years of this fascinating radio sport and keep on doing more friends everywhere.
73 and congrats for the MG
Ignacio