A thread for the report on today’s activity. Wishing everyone all the best for a very successful activation. Keep safe all.
73, Gerald G4OIG aka GM4OIG/P
Great afternoon… super condx
My antenna was the Endfed 40/20/15/10m and the 10m Oblong… TRX KX2 and PA about 50 watts
I only did 10m! There were 141 QSOs in 3 hours 20 minutes (most of them DX), of which 10 DX - S2S including PY and ZS…
At the beginning the fog line was still 100m below me… but then it came towards me and it got cold… Then it was QRT…
73 Armin
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I am in short trip to OK/MO, so activation of OK/MO-063 was not so long.
I worked on 2m, 20m & 10m.
Logged a few DX including 1 S2S 
Used KX-2, 10W power, antenna end fed trial friendly by LNR.
73, Jarek
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Great fun, thank you all for participating. I had 8 s2s-contacts, 5 of them with stations in the US (@N1ZF, @K1RID, @WA7JTM, @W4GO, @N0QLR) one with @PY2VM. But shortskip to @DB7MM worked as well. I would appreciate to read what the setup of these stations was. Mine was my MC750-telescopic vertical with 12 counterpoises and my KX2 with a small PA, output 25 watts. Picture was taken after last QSO.
73 and GL to all
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All contacts on 10m
10m Delta Loop with base about 1.75m AGL, KX2, 10W Cw & SSB
Moncreiffe hill GM/SS-276, steep cliffs facing from SW to NW, operating at the edge.
48 QSOS in 2hours
11 S2S EA4, GM, VE2, SP, W4V, OE, G, GW
2 Completes
ODX PY1NP approx, 9500km
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I went up to G/SC-001 for an activation. I’m totally new to HF, having only had a working radio since Tuesday.
It was rather mizzly, and there was a cold breeze, so I set up N/NW of the summit, about 10 meters away.
EFHW up a 5m pole, with hiking poles to support the ends. Two sit mats (one for my bum, and one for the radio’s bum). Sandwich, flapjack, headphones, note book. Ready… steady… go!
I called CQ and bagged my first QSO on 10m - the USA! Rather excited by this, I thought today was going to be a breeze, but it turned out I had to work quite hard.
My pen stopped working before I could even write down the first call sign of the day. Polo to the rescue.
I was having audio/modulation issues, which plagued me all day. On my second QSO (M7MFS, who I know quite well), he told me that I sounded garbled… almost like there were two of me talking over each other. He sounded like he’d just inhaled a lung full of helium which was funny.
We tried to trouble shoot, however after realising that I had no idea what was going on, I decided to carry on. I called CQ on the same frequency but I had no responses, so I decided to try to chase a few summits.
I successfully chased two summits on 28.360… I tried other stations however I couldn’t get through the pile ups.
Back to calling CQ again on 28.377, I bagged three stations (one S2S) in Poland… then it was quiet again.
Switching to 14.292 bagged me 5 more QSOs (one S2S) and was my most successful CQ call of the day.
After it went quiet again, I went back to 10m to get my last two QSOs of the day.
So, the main thing I need to sort out is why I’m getting bad audio reports. I wonder whether stations were put off answering my calls due to it being somewhat difficult to understand.
Still, it was a lovely day and I managed to get one USA contact (albeit not a summit), so I ticked the trans-atlantic box.
Thanks for the S2S QSOs.
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I actually remembered to take a photo! Very enjoyable afternoon thanks all. No trans-Atlantic S2S, but a few S2S in Europe. Highlights being 1 complete and my first ever contact to W coast of USA.
44 contacts split between 10 and 20m
6 trans Atlantic (Canada, USA & Brazil)
7 S2S (incl 2 dupes - I couldn’t persuade anyone to sit in the mist with me on top of a hill for 2 hours
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So fun! I was on W1/HA-010, Mount Kearsarge for 1 chilly hour (abt -4C) and had 16 Qs and 5 S2S (@PY2VM, @EA2BD, @DL4FO, @EA2WX & @G4TGJ) all on 10 meters.
I was using my QMX (1st qsos with that rig) running abt 3 watts to a 10 meter dipole up just under 6m.
Best 72 from New England!
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My summit today was I/LG-029, an easy ascent that can be completed in 15-20 minutes from the car park.
Today there were some cows in the footpath, they didn’t seem to care very much about me.
Same for the usual wild horses that inhabit the area, they are not curious and are best left alone.
There’s an iron cross on the summit, it can be spotted from quite a distance
Setting up station was quick, no wind interfering with antenna work: I used a 40m EFHW in an inverted-V configuration, a 7m fiberglass pole to support it in the middle and the walking sticks at the extremes to tension it.
Radio today was a KX2, powered by an external 2Ah LiFePO4 battery, 10W power output.
I started by chasing @VA2NM, @WN3F and @W4GO on 10m, since the band sounded promising I started calling and I got WK2S, @N4EX, @PY1NP, @W4JKC and @N1ZF. Then I moved on 15m for a quick S2S with WB2LJK, back to 10m with @KZ4DZ and @N4MJ. Another attempt on 15m got another QSO with @N4EX and finally a S2S with @VA2EO on 10m.
At this point I noticed a group of kids sprinting their parents quickly approaching the summit and I decided it was the appropriate time to pack up. 14 QSOs all DX, I couldn’t get any European contacts.
The weather was gorgeous, we had weeks of rain and today was perfect for the S2S Transatlantic event.
Last cow before the car park.
Thanks to all the chasers and the activators enduring my Morse code, I get nervous when I’m on the receiving end of the calls.
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That was a great afternoon. I activated Cefn Eglwysilan, GW/SW-025 using my IC705 with 10 watts to a 1/4 wave vertical on a 4m pole with 1 elevated radial pointing West. Conditions seemed to be superb. 44 stations in my log with 14 S2S.
Thanks to everyone who made this such an enjoyable activity.
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Hello Carlo 73!
Thanks your DXQSO SOTA I/IG-009 28 mhz Cw today 02/11/2024 - 14:03 utc.
All the best, grazie.
PY1NP - Nylson
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Well done Kevin and thanks for working me for a complete!
73, Matthew M0JSB
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Used the QMX 14-28 MHz version for the first time, the antenna was the 10.90 m inv-L.
Unfortunately the cold fog hit me much earlier than I had hoped, I would have liked to have stayed a little longer.
Although my QMX only delivers 3.5 watts on 12 and 10 m, I enjoyed the little black box.
37 QSOs in 2 h
9 s2s (SV, EA1, EA2, W1, DM, VE2, CT, W4V, HB9)
ODX 12 m: ~9586 km JS6RRR
ODX 10 m: ~9253 km PY1NP
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Most of the stronger stations I heard on 10m today sounded like that, not sure why. I didn’t get any bad audio reports from anybody I worked so I assume it wasn’t an issue at my end.
Sometimes I’ve had reports of bad/distorted audio, but the next chaser has said my audio sounds perfect.
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41 contacts in 3hr45m for me.
15 on 10m, 7 S2S although 4 of them were G/GW.
10 on 15m, 2 S2S
a 2m FT8 chase from @G4OBK which wasn’t bad for 5W from an FT817 
4 contacts on 6m SSB, 3 from the USA!
Probably could’ve got a few more S2S but gave up trying to get through pileups and the QRM from stations a few kHz away was making it too difficult to copy what the chaser was saying.
On the walk up my phone pinged to say the Kp index had jumped up to 4 so wasn’t expecting great conditions. Ionosphere seemed to match the troposphere for me today.
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Very enjoyable activation for me on SP/BZ-061. The highlights were two S2S with Canada (my first ones ever) and one with Virginia US, moreover a chaser from Brasil and the usual bunch from the USA. Not Sota-related, ridiculously strong signals from VK9 and XT2, but the pile up was unaccessible. I wonder if these big guns ever suspect that there are portable stations out there with frozen operators trying to make miracles happen, let alone leave few minutes only for them.
I worked CW and SSB with my Yaesu FT-817 and a monoband 10 m. flowerpot, today I felt lazy for the delta loop and decided to take an antenna easier to deploy. I went QRT when my the finished and when I started to feel the cold, today we had the first taste of the incoming winter.
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In the end I took neither tent nor tarp which limited my time sitting there. 10m was really cooking as I went QRT and I could have bagged many more contacts had I not got too cold to continue.
But not bad for ~50 minutes: 16 contacts on 10m with 10W CW to a Cha MPAS Lite vertical: 9 USA, 1 Canada, 6 EU. 8 were S2Ss. Not had any N/A S2Ss previously on 10m so 5 today was great.
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Sorry my report was not on good thread - Chaser report
Waouhhh a pity was not on the summit 
A good afternoon here on the shack with 100w and wire antennas specially on 10m
73, Eric
F5JKK
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Wow! What a day! Definitely the best conditions that I have ever had the chance to operate in.
I managed 32 transatlantic QSOs, including 9 transatlantic S2S.
10m was really cooking!
My head was fried, I’m not used to operating for an extended period!
Thanks to all the chasers today and to all the activators getting up early over the pond!
73, Colin
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A quick look at my log from today looks like over 30 EU QSO’s, and one QSO to ZS6FY in South Africa. Looks like nine unique EU s2s summits worked from W7A/MN-147.
Ten was pretty good, but I had some powerline noise on the summit today from somewhere… so that made weak QSO’s pretty difficult at times. Sorry for that…
So apx 135 Ten Meter contacts total, and six contacts on 144+1296 MHz.
So much better this year than the last few years for sure.
Will finish up the log soon and put it online…
THANKS TO ALL…great stuff today! 
Pete
WA7JTM
W7A/MN-147
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