My first activation trip for 2016 is coming up.
I’m going to the Bergheim Funkflohmarkt (hamfest) in Bergheim (DL) on March 12.
I will be staying in a hotel in Jülich, not so far from Bergheim, and very close to one of the few remaining summits in that area (after March 1st): DM/NW-134 Sophienhöhe.
On friday March 11, I’d like to activate as much ON summits as I can, from these four: ON/ON-010 Baraque Fraiture ON/ON-013 Bois de Hodinfosse ON/ON-011 Sur Clair Fa ON/ON-001 Signal de Botrange
(all depending on weather and traffic …)
The hamfest is on saturday morning, in the afternoon I would then like to go to
DM/NW-134 Sophienhöhe
Sunday is not sure, if the weather is good, I may go back to DM/NW-123 Sophienehoehe and take part in the UBA 2m contest (Sunday 7-11h UTC, CW/Phone) , and work some more chasers
On monday I’m going back to Belgium, maybe I can visit the two PA summits I did last time, PA/PA-002 and PA/PA-003
Now some questions …
Does anyone have some access info for DM/NW-134 Sophienhöhe (which parking lot to use, shortest walk to the summit, where best to setup …)
The website of DO2KFC seems to be down …
Any SOTA activators also going to the Bergheim Hamfest?
Any activators also going to one of those summits on those days ?
Would be nice to have some joint activation and/or have an eyeball chat …
Let me know and we can arrange some meeting schedule
I finally got my Linx 7" tablet (with Windows 8.1 & FLDIGI) working via the mic/ear connector, via a homebrew interface into the KX3, so I could do some digital, but is it worth the trouble ? is anyone interested in PSK (or RTTY) for SOTA ? Let me know if yes …
Luc, if you publish the fact you will have digi modes with you, people will be interested. The fact you could write up how to do this with a cheap tablet and free software may encourage more people to try.
I was on DM/NW-134 in 2014. It is a very good VHF site, a huge spoil heap with plenty of trees at the top but take off will be OK in winter, hi.
Here are my notes for access at the time:
L213 to Welldorf and continue east to Guesten. Take a local road called Buschfeld over the bridge (B55) to a small parking area (unsurfaced) at the base of the spoil heap. A path opposite a zig-zag forestry track will lead you to the top of the spoil heap (plateau). Proceed in a southerly direction for about 2km to the highest point. Note: the paths are suitable to all terrain bikes.
The ascent took about 45 minutes.
I just posted all alerts for my trip on sotawatch.
If anyone want another band/mode, just ask !
I can operate 40m - 2m, SSB, (SLOW) CW; PSK, RTTY.
For digimodes I won’t be using the Lynx 7" tablet, but direct keying in the KX3, and I will test-drive my newest Arduino project : a text reader with an LCD display which can hold up to 460 characters + logging onto SD-CARD with time stamp from RTC module (see pictures).
