Hi all!
Last Sunday I activated my first SOTA. EA1/AV-045 was the choosen. The Saturday 21th I visited the Spain radio ham convention, IberRadio, at Avila city. So I decided to take advantage that I was in the zone and I searched a nearby summit for the next day, before comming to home.
I arrived onto the summit at 8:20h, after deploy the mast and the antenna tying the mast to the triangulation pillar (trig station of the spanish national geographic and mapping agency), I started on the air at 08:40h.
First I worked the 40m (freq. 7.159) band SSB mode, I made 55 QSOs, most of them ‘EA’ callsigns, 2 from ‘F’ and 1 from ‘CT’. Yes, I had my very first pile-up, I had moments of nervousness while managing the pile-up.
Then I changed to CW mode, I only can make 2 QSOs due to the very busy of the band with some contests.
At last, I worked the 20m (freq. 14.063) band CW mode, at this I can make 7 QSOs, all of them with other european countries.
I worked CW at 17 WPM, I had to ask for a repetition of some callsigns that I didn’t hear clearly. I need more training morse code. Maybe next time I carry headphones into the backpack, for listening better. This time I used a JBL speaker.
I couldn’t make any S2S but I’ve enjoyed a lot the activation. Really, I didn’t expect for that a lot of QSOs in SSB mode. Now, I want to plan the next activation, to choose the summit, the route,…
73 de EA4HZK, Salva!
