His daughter Sabrina @HB3XTZ often joins him and has recently got her amateur radio license. With both of them infected by the SOTA virus and well known for fearlessly venturing to the summits come rain or shine, Iâm sure we can look forward to many more activations in the future! Below is a link to their YouTube channel (videos in Swiss German).
I have been asked by HB9PIM to respond in his name, since he is not registered here in the reflector.
Thank you very much for taking the time and writing this nice text.
During the summer he is every wednesday & saturday out activating a summit. (Saturday iâm usually participating) And i think having an eye on the 2019 Activator results where he currently is #5 (all HB activations) is as much a motivation as getting some fresh air and expierience the adventures of nature.
He also took it as far as staying on a mountain (HB/SZ-011) over night in the summer 2019 and i can only imagine what expieriece that must have been!
Here you can see the sunrise on SZ-011:
But no matter what the weather is like, it is an adventure every time
With the Youtube channel we are trying to bring some of the wonders we see back in to the homes of persons that donât have the time or are not phisically able to go and see for themself.
73
Sabrina (Antenna holder, log writer, movie editor & daughter) of HB9PIM
Wow, that was fast, congrats! I was delighted to get acquainted with both PIM and (not yet licensed) XTZ at our HB9SOTA group activation last summer. It sounds like Iâll have plenty of opportunities for an S2S if I take my 2m rig with me in the future. 73/88 Paul HB9DST
Family activations are a good model, enjoying that here, too. Iâm sure that youâll now both take the opportunities to provide a similar success to Sabrina (and many S2S QSOs to the rest of the herd). So continue to enjoy!
I also feel a bit jealous about you having your daughter activating SOTA with you and finally having got her ham license. I have 2 daughters and 1 son and so far Iâve been totally unsuccessful on motivating them to get out to the mountains with me. Even less success about raising some interest on ham radio or doing SOTA. I still keep some hope about my 9 years old son, but my daughters (17 and 15) are nearly a lost caseâŠ
Congrats again and Iâll be looking forward to making QSO with you sometime in the future.
73,
I saw that if MG was about number of QSO Iâm sure you would have made it a long time ago.
Here in HB we have a big advantage of having a lot of summits and also a big part of them beeing reachable in a reasonable time when traveling by car. Also having the opportunity of 2 SOTA days during summer when the weather allows to activate 10p summits has a big impact.
Thanks for this suggestion, Sabrina, Iâll think about itâŠ
Indeed, but the 10 pointers I have in the Pyrenees are quite a long drive of nearly 2 hours one way from my QTH and have usually long hikes of nearly 3 hours one way. That means that a single 10 point summit activation for me needs a whole day out and a lot of driving, plus an important amount of physical effort. The closer summits around my QTH are mostly 2 and 4 pointers.
Iâll let you know if I have success with my son on building and testing some equipment for SOTA.
73/88,