Yesterday I had some time to spend on SOTA while being at my sister home at NV. Going with her kids and mine was a must, so time on every summit had to be not too long, as the weather was rainy and the small people was not able to run up and down freely, and so, they were bored fast.
So despite of the light but persistent rain, we were able to hike the short path to Sutxu (EA2-NV-112) and operating almost half an hour the 817 5watts on a norcal doublet antenna just on 14mhz CW. The summit is located near S.Martin de Unx, a beautiful village middle-age styled, were we had a typical -and heavy- lunch.
Short afterwards, we drove about other 50 km back to Miranda de Arga to reach, after a light hike of 2 km, the second summit of the day, Jenariz EA2/NV-163. There again we were able to spend another 30 min between dense clouds and fog with some sporadic rain. Again, racing against elements and youngers for around 30 QSOs on 14 CW.
These summits are very easy to hike but unfortunately you must travel more than 250 km to reach the zone… and there are not permanent sota activators putting them on the air on a regular basis…
To short, two new summits for me and -i hope- for the few chasers who could work me… I’ll try to work them again on summer with better weather.
By the moment these two new NV summits gave me Haize (wind) level of the Basque Country Mountains Award after activating 5 summits on 4 territories for a total of 20. (more info at www.mendiak.eus)
73 de Mikel EA2CW (still on NV land, but quite busy with dwarf tribe)