Me (LB8CG) and Lauris (LB1RH) are traveling to South Korea for short SOTA spring break tour.
We will be active mostly from the Deogyusan national park area. Activations are scheduled for 1-5 May.
We only got permission to use Elecraft radios, but VOACAP showing that even with 10-12W itโs good opportunities for DXing on 15m, 17m bands, so I am crossing fingers and hope in addition to local contacts to get some QSOs with NA, Australia/Oceania and may be even Europe
We will use HL4/LB8CG and HL4/LB1RH callsigns, so watch the Alerts
Hope to get as many as possible contacts with SOTA chasers.
To schedule QSO and for real-time coordination please join HL SOTA dxpedition Telegram group (Telegram: Join Group Chat)
73 LB8CG
Update: I updated our call sign, it turned out that we can use HL4 prefix in our area of activity.
Thanks for chasing me today dear OMs. @F4WBN, @OK2PDT, SV2RUJ you made my day, I got feeling of Norwegian summit here in HL with so many familiar chasers!
We will drive back to the Seoul today, thanks for the nice chases so far, the most fun it was on the 3rd of May on HL/JB-023 with 12 EU contact including even @EA7GV!
We will try to activate HL/CN-037 on the way back, so watch the alerts, arival time bit unclear because of holiday and potential traffic issues.
DS3FYA was with us on two activations and made these two very nice videos:
i want visit south korea in august 2026 for a short trip to Seoul and want maybe do 2 activations there. As i known that is not a cept country what i need there to get the permission to do ham operation?
For portable operation, I was only able to obtain a permit for transceivers with output power below 10 W. I tried to obtain a permit for the FT-857, but I was told that in that case I would have to notify the authorities in some way about the location and time of use of the station. I could not find any information at that time on how to do this, so for simplicity I removed the FT-857 from my application.
In the end, I kept the FT-817, Elecraft KX3, and Anytone AT-D890UV in the application.
I recommend getting in touch with the local SOTA community (DS3FYA ds3fya@hanmail.net). Most local activity takes place on the 2m band and higher, and people do not usually use SOTA spots, but spot through the local chat.
with so many familiar chasers!
