Very pleased to get a S2S with you, Andy, and many others whom I regularly chase from home.
I wish I could activate more often, though to be honest, the difficulty is partly self-imposed. I’m only activating uniques for the time being and my remaining options are getting ever farther from home.
Hi friend,
The 28MHz band is really performing excellently for DX, but on other days, the activators insist on 14MHz. They need to spend more time on 28MHz.
Report of this moment.
73
Carlos
PY2VM
Hello Chris, it was great to catch you on the air. Thanks for hanging in there to complete the QSO. It was a real treat to get you in the log.
I had a couple of configurations set up, but for our QSO, I was running a 66-foot EFHW as an inverted V. I was going into the K6ARK matching unit connected to an Elecraft KX2, running 10 watts.
Additionally, we had a 10-meter moxon set up, but that wasn’t what I was using for our QSO. This is a pretty cool picture of sunrise from the peak.
Thanks for activating! I hope to catch you on another summit soon.
73!
N0QLR/Shane
Previous commitments, both at home and work, kept me from fully enjoying the S2S event, but I did manage to get two hours to play SOTA, right after lunch. I headed out for my “backyard” summit, CT/DL-015, where I spent an hour chasing activators, on both sides of the Atlantic, exclusively on 10m and CW.
Couldn’t stay any longer, but managed to compensate with some chases, once in the shack.
VY 73! Paulo CT2IWW
Fun day, this is my report of the “Trans-Atlantic S2S Event 2nd November 2024” from EA2/BI-057.
117 QSOs
10 Trans-Atlantic S2S (10 m)
19 S2S EU
Very nice weather, until late afternoon when fog appeared with same weater.
My working conditions werw 1/4 weave with three elevated radials for 10 m and NorCal doublet for the rest of the bands. I used an FT817 with a small 30 W amplifier.
Many thanks to all chasers and activators.
73 de EA2WX
Marcial
Hi Marcial,
Happy to have done 2 S2S with you, on November 1st and 2nd.
73
carlos
PY2VM
Great afternoon on OK/KA-008. Activation together with Karel OK4DX. Our setup was Yaesu FT-891 with full 100W output power, powered by LiFePo4 24Ah and 10Ah as backup. We had two antennas, both inverted V at about 7m high for 14-21-28MHz. The Weather was foggy and about 4°C, but there was no wind.
Many DX contacts made, most W, but also VE and 1xZS. I remember PY1NP called me, but signal was week and lost in QSB.
As usually Karel OK4DX focused on CW, me on SSB. There are the results:
(statistics from http://tools.adventureradio.de/analyzer/ )
OK1MCS:
Total 8x S2S (4xDX S2S)
OK4DX:
Mni thanks and cu next time!
Pavel
Hi Carlos, thanks to you too for the two S2S, my first with PY.
Two new badges earned in chaser stats for the QSOs of November 1st and 2nd 
Muito obrigado Carlos.
73
Marcial
EA2WX
Hi everyone,
We (@EA7GV AND @EA7KUG) selected Cabras EA7/GR-068 for its easy access especially for the way back in the dark.
We arrived late to the summit and also had problems with the SSB station. But despite everything it was a fun activity.
The numbers:
83 qso (17 DX)
17 S2S (5 DX)
A video of the activity
73 José
Finally I find a few minutes to do a very quick report on last Saturday’s S2S event from my perspective. For me it started out okay, but the weather got progressively worse the higher I climbed and then worse still as the day progressed.
At the summit the wind was gusting to around 50kph which wasn’t forecast, but then weather forecasts are aimed at lower levels where the majority of the population is. Also it is obviously subject to local variation and often ends up being totally wrong on the hills. As I started to set up, it started to drizzle which persisted while I operated. Visibility was generally around 20 metres…
With the poor weather conditions, I had hoped to be able to use the summit shelter, but it was occupied by two people when I arrived. Anyway, I was doubtful whether I could get my pole to stand up alongside the shelter as the ground on this summit is not good for pegging out guys. It took me a while to locate a slightly better position a few meters down the slope, but trying to erect a tarp shelter was a failure due to it flapping violently in the wind. I therefore used it to wrap around myself and the kit while I was operating which was hardly ideal.
I had decided to run a quick 40m SSB session to give the summit an airing for the UK and near EU chasers before getting into the S2S event proper. It was easy to tune the Slidewinder vertical and I worked a total of 11 contacts on the band, 4 of which were S2S.
So onto 10m where more or less everyone was at around 13:00z. There weren’t many spots for NA stations at that time, but I found and worked Simon VA2NM at 13:28z, though with low signal reports each way. I couldn’t hear anyone else, so called CQ and picked up just 3 contacts, well spaced apart with CQs between. At 14:00z I went hunting for contacts, working Eric VA2EO at 14:08z and Matt W4GO at 14:59z, plus 4 EU S2S. After working Matt I decided to call CQ again, picking up 2 more EU S2S and one chaser. Then at 15:15z it started to rain heavily. Dark clouds had rolled in, visibility was down to around 10 metres and it looked set to remain like that, so reluctantly I decided enough was enough and went QRT. I had planned to be on the summit until at least 17:00z.
So a total of 3 Trans-Atlantic S2S, 6 EU S2S and 4 EU chasers for me. Nothing whatsoever heard from NA chasers. Heard, but not worked as signals were weak or it was not the operator’s frequency were Pete WA7JTM, Roy WN3F, Joe KZ4DZ and Carlos PY2VM. Kit at my end: KX3 plus a small linear, 30 watts output, Slidewinder based vertical, pole mounted though only 1m at the loading coil due to the wind.
It rained all the way back to the car by which time it had reduced to drizzle. The ascent had been decidely boggy, but it was considerably worse coming down due to the rain. Quite frankly I was just pleased to have made some contacts and now all I wanted to do was to get back to my accommodation to dry out the kit.
Many thanks as always to everyone that participated in this, the 15th Trans-Atlantic S2S Event. Hopefully the weather up in Scotland will be better next April for the 16th event… then again knowing my luck!
73, Gerald G4OIG (GM4OIG/P)
Conditions on 10m were good unfortunately my decision making was not. I was feeling under the weather on the day before the event. As a result, I decided to change my summit for the event. I went for the closer, shorter, easier summit instead of the more distant, longer, steeper and more treacherous summit. As soon as I turned on the radio my mistake became obvious. I had an S7 noise level on the new summit while the other summit usually had a very low noise level. After my first spot it became obvious, I was an alligator, all mouth and no ears. With 30 watts of transmit power and an S7 noise level many stations were coping me, and I was having a very difficult time copying most of them. I did work a few stations with much difficulty, and I want to apologize to the stations calling me that I could not copy. I eventually decided it was best to search and pounce instead of spotting myself. This way I could at least call the stations I could copy. I eventually filtered for only 10m SSB stations as the spots were scrolling by so fast. I was able to complete S2S contacts with HB9EAJ, OE9HRV, KJ7OGF, HB9HCS, EA4IS and OK1MCS.
With the number of European spots disappearing, I switched to 10m FT8/FT4 to work on the 10m challenge. I was using a new 6m/10m fan dipole I had just built for this event. A local told me 6m was open and I was able to copy an EA station on 6m. With 10 watts on six I was unsuccessful. Later I was able to work a VE1 on 6m FT8.
All was not lost but I have marked this summit off my list for working DX.
The new fan dipole for 6m and 10m.
The operating position with my IC-705 and amplifier. At the summit there are 2 chairs constructed out of large stones that look like they are from the Flintstones cartoon.
73, Burke
KF7NP
Yesterday I went on the same summit and got 66 in the log with 11 US including CA and AZ plus PY (although no transatlantic S2S). I had many simultaneous replies to my CQs. There weren’t a huge number of activators around so the chasers were happy to get my single point and my spots didn’t scroll off the screen so quickly.
