I see that Peter G4ISJ is Rock Miting already!
Mine will have to wait until the afternoon.
73 Richard G3CWI
In reply to G3CWI:
One down. On my way to number 2.
40 is hard work, very busy at 7.028!
In reply to G4ISJ:
“40 is hard work, very busy at 7.028!”
Yep, I tried as long as I could distinguish calls to me from the qrm, had to give in after about 10 or so, sorry guys, I could hear you calling but it was mixing with the contesters, imd in the rx.
Moved to 30m where there was a stn working split 10.115-116, guess where my rm30 is? So moved to the weber tribander on 15m, peaceful and easy working NA.
It was very cold.
Good luck on 20m Pete.
73,
Ian mm0gyx
Nearly had a disaster on today’s Rockmite adventure. I forgot the lead for the ATU. However, a Swiss Army knife, two reusable cable ties and the last 10cm of the antenna saved the day.
9 QSOs on 20m. OM1AX not in log. N4EX heard but not worked.
73 Richard G3CWI
Lots of fun was had this afternoon in the Mighty Mite weekend on St Boniface Down G/SE-008 using my RM20.
Rig : RM20 14.0576 & 14.0582Mhz
Antenna : 1/4 Wav vertical (4 elevated radials)
Pwr : Approx 100mW
Battery : 9V LiFE 1800mAh
Total QSO’s : 14
15:26 N4EX
15:30 OK4IT
15:32 OK2TO
15:34 VE1WT
15:35 LY5G
15:37 HA7UL
15:39 S52CU
15:44 CT1DRB
15:45 OM1AX
15:50 OH1HE
16:24 N1EU
16:30 OH9XX
16:33 HA5LV
16:58 LZ4GL
DXCC’s : N, OK, VE, LY, S52, CT, OM, OH, HA, LZ
Best DX : N4EX and N1EU.
Thanks for the QSO’s
73
Rob G0PEB
In reply to G3CWI:
It was tough, very tough on 40 metres!
Apologies to anyone calling that I couldn’t hear.
I had about 30 contest stations in my bandpass, some of them were very loud 
I’ve still to do a write up but preliminary figures are 56 QSOs:
40 on 14Mhz
16 on 7 Mhz.
Best DX was Barry N1EU - huge signal as usual!
Good contact with OH9NB who reduced power down from his 5W QRO to match my 300mW.
Still 2x599!
More later.
72
I am still thawing out. It was -17c at the TH and somewhat colder at the summit of Mt Herman. Once the winds started I was done. I had about 16 QSOs on 20 using 200 milliwatts to an EF.
wG0AT was able to spot me from the warm goat barn in order to get the pileup rolling Thanks chasers as you did all the hard work today. It might of been better without the WES contest. Thanks Steve for the spot.
More to come…
72
Frank
K0JQZ
In reply to K0JQZ:
Well done Frank!
73 Richard G3CWI
In reply to K0JQZ:
Great signal into eastern Kansas with 200 mw Frank. Couldn’t even tell you were cold as the CW sending was great. Thanks for the contact. Great Job!
Gary A. - W0MNA
In reply to K0JQZ:
Hi Frank…just wanted to let you know I was copying your RM sig in Smoky Lake AB…heard others working you…and I bet I could have worked you…but the SKCC WES participants drowned you out just as your sig came up. Next time!
Mike VA6FUN
In reply to W0MNA:
It was all over in a flash…
Pete
In reply to RMers,
Well Done guys, seems like a good time was had by all despite the challenges! It seems like all the tough stuff has been done today - low temps, summit D-I-Y and severe QRM. Nice to see lots of RM activity.
I am planning to activate early tomorrow morning with 5 of my RockMites (well you don’t expect me to take them all do you?!) covering 40m, 30m, 20m and 17m. I intend to use my PP3 challenge rig under LA1KHA rule conditions, so I’d appreciate another call if I go on to 30m for a second time.
Weather is forecast to be very windy so I guess I might have a fight with the antenna, I’ll do the best I can.
72,
Colin, M1BUU
In reply to M1BUU:
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The only QRM I had on 40 meters was a steady background carpet of quiet JA stations in a contest. Farthest QSO was 1,000 miles, long after sunrise. RM40 with outboard DSP…EFHW antenna at 5 meters.
Elliott, K6EL
Trip Report is here….
Thanks again guys for putting this together.
72
Frank
K0JQZ
So the Mighty Mite Weekend is over. It looks like several people participated. Thanks folks and especially the chasers for searching out our micro-power signals. I hope that you all had fun!
The next thing is the reports. Publish your reports here between now and 19 December and the best one will win the Mighty Mite Trophy:
http://www.sotabeams.co.uk/awards/
If you want to publish your reports on your blog or website instead that’s fine too, Just put a link here.
If you have any photos, please email to me and I will combine the reports into a little article for possible publication in Radcom or QST.
73 Richard G3CWI
In reply to G3CWI:
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Here’s my report, Richard—
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THE ROCKMITE WEAK-SEND
Mighty-Mite Billy Bob Lee
Activated Under A Tree
…The Cops Came That Night
…To See He’s All Right
There’s Beer Cans Up To His Knee
Elliott, K6EL
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T.S. Eliot
Spinning
in grave
In reply to K6ILM:
…not convinced that QST will accept that!
In reply to G3CWI:
Here’s my report:
I can post the text here but then you’d miss the full multimedia experience!
Pete
In reply to G4ISJ:
Hi all
Short report from Norway during Mighty Mite weekend.
Saturday I was on LA/TM-042 Lovisenbergkollen. Nice sunny weather at about 0 C degrees. Worked 18 qso’s:
11:46 EA2CW
11:47 G4SSH
11:48 DL1FU
11:48 DL3JPN
11:49 LY5G
11:50 G4APO
11:51 OM5DP
11:52 DL3HXX
11:53 ON4FI
11:54 G4FGJ
11:55 GM0OAA
11:55 OK2TO
11:56 DL7URB
11:57 SM0GNS
12:01 OM1AX
12:02 PA0WLB
12:03 M0BKV
12:04 DL2KAS
Sunday I was on LA/TM-017 Store Havsåsen. Duing the night/morning we had about 10cm of snow. Weather when activating was cloudy and temp abt. -3 C.
This summit has a nice shelter on top, so made this summit a good choice.
Here I made 13 qso’s with the Rockmite:
12:40 SM7HVQ
12:41 G4SSH
12:42 DF5WA
12:43 DL3HXX
12:44 OK2TO
12:45 DL3JPN
12:45 DL1DVE
12:46 DL7URB
12:47 PA0SKP
12:48 G4WSX
12:48 LY5G
12:49 ON4FI
12:50 OM1AX
Thanks to all chasers. Hard work with a very wide rx, but probably even harder for the chasers with the weak signals.
best 73’s
de Aage, LA1ENA
Here’s my chaser log for the weekend. Peter, Ian and Aage were RockMiteing, I’m not sure if any of the others were. Forty was very noisy with the INORC and Norwegian contests, and the QRPp signals were quite hard to find. Thirty was almost as hard work as a string of special event stations were creating pile-ups right across the band.
The previous weekend (the one after the CQWW) was pretty much contest-free, which might be worth bearing in mind for next year?
07/Dec
11:08 G4ISJ/P G/CE-003 Bredon Hill 7MHz Peter
11:55 LA1ENA/P LA/TM-042 Lovisenbergkollen 10MHz Aage
13:39 MM0GYX/P GM/CS-120 Brown Muir 7MHz Ian
13:43 HB9DST/P HB/AI-009 Hundwiler Höhi 14MHz Paul
15:00 G3ISJ/P G/CE-001 Cleeve Hill 7MHz Peter
15:16 HB9TVK/P HB/ZH-015 Altberg 10MHz Peter
17:39 EI7KH/P EI/IS-086 Slievenamuck 3.5MHz Marek
08/Dec
09:48 HB9BIN/P HB/VD-023 Rochers de Naye 10MHz Juerg
10:21 HA3HK/P HA/KD-031 Rendeki-hegy 10MHz Zoli
11:58 OK1MLP/P OK/PL-079 Cervený vrch 10MHz Karel
14:44 EA2CW/P EA2/VI-007 Recuenco 14MHz Mikel
Equipment here is an old Ten Tec Argosy, 20-30W into a 15M end fed wire.
Hats off to all those numb-fingered heroes with their Altoids tins!
Mike GM0OAA