Today I was lucky enough to hear and record the pileup of Andrew, HB0/VK1AD/P on HB0/LI-004.
My location was a small hill near the fairground in the south of Hannover, called Kronsberg. Unfortunately it’s no Sota summit.
Enjoy listening to the involved Sota family here in Europe.
Sorry I didn’t work you. I heard your callsign at 11:12 UTC and wrote DL1 in my log book but DK1QF called over you so I thought the original call was DK1QF.
Thanks for taking the time to record the video and audio. Every VK should have the opportunity to experience an EU pileup, I have to say it’s hard work on a summit when so many stations call over the top of each other whilst also listening for S2S calls… In VK a pileup might consist to 3 or 4 stations calling at once
Herbert OE9HRV is thinking we will activate a summit tomorrow (Friday) most likely in the afternoon. I hope I will have a 2nd opportunity to work you.
I have heard you yesterday but I was not able to work you in the pile up. May be Friday ? I wish you a nice stay in OE and a lot of S2S.
Please transmit my greetings to my friend Herbert.
Saw your spots today (Friday) Andrew - but you were at (or under) my noise level most of the time. I did try one call on 20m but when I wasn’t sure if you came back to me or not I waited and it seems you went back to an HB9.
The contact if possible would have needed to be ground wave and while I’m confident I could have pumped enough RF across the ground in your direction, there’s no point If I can’t hear you coming back HI.
A question - what antenna were you using on 20 metres? Was it a vertical? My antennas here are both horizontal and while a sky-wave contact doesn’t matter what polarisation you are using I suspect (but don’t know) that a cross polarised Groundwave contact may lose many dB of signal.
At least the forecast storms seem to have held off.
Terrific to make the S2S QSO with you today. I did see your alert and was hoping 40m propagation would be kind to all SOTA activators. I am very pleased to have made the QSO.
I struggled to hear Juerg HB9BIN/P at HB/OW-025 on 40m. After many attempts on 40m we eventually made a weak S2S exchange on 80m followed by a good S2S QSO on 20m.
By chance, I read your spot when you just pushed it. And immediately listen to your “Is this frequence occupied?”.
As soon as your PileUp started, I started calling. At that moment, I was approached by a game warden.
I had made myself comfortable on a hunter’s seat (see video) and he said, I should leave immediately.
So I packed everything and changed the place. Fortunately, you were still qrv and have responded immediately to my request. Blessing in disguise!
Andrew, I made an audio recording of our contact and added some pictures from my holiday photos to the Alps.
Enjoy the beautiful Alpine countries. I can not wait to be there again!