Battery: #3 Philips Ultra Alkaline
Activation #12
Date: 06/03/24
Summit: G/NP-017 Fountains Fell
Bands: 17m, 15m, 10m
Finish voltage: not measured
Rig: RockMites
Ant: Inv. Vee dipole at 6m above ground
QSOs: 1 on 15m
DXCC EA
Cumulative QSOs: 68
Cumulative DXCC:18
CT,DL,EA,EA8,F,GI,HA,I,LY,OE,OH,OK,ON,S5,SM,SP,W
Lots of CQs across 17,15 and 10m. Just one QSO, with EA5K on 15m. Used MTR-5B to qualify.
I measured batteries #2 and #3 and both have failed. I’m guessing that it might be the cold temperatures in the outdoor shack that has killed them. I’ve been buying premium batteries in the past but I’ve decided to go more budget this time. Battery #4 is an Eveready Gold ‘value’ battery which cost £2.25 in the Settle branch of Booths.
Battery: #4 Eveready Gold
Activation #1
Date: 12/11/24
Summit: G/SP-006 White Hill
Bands: 15m
Finish voltage: 9.29
Rig: Home brew RockMite
Ant: Inv. Vee dipole at 6m above ground
QSOs: 6
DXCC EA,I,LA,SM,W
Cumulative QSOs: 6
Cumulative DXCC: EA,I,LA,SM,W
Those two words don’t often go together.
I smiled when I saw budget and Booths in the same phrase.
I was travelling through the Booths region once and called in and bought a sandwich for lunch. It wasn’t cheap. Nor Fortnum & Masons expensive TBH. But it was very nice.
Here in Ilkley we are in the sweet spot where we have Booths (Preston based) and Boyes (Scarborough based). Boyes is a budget hardware and household store, so the opposite end to Booths.
