Hi all,
First best wishes for 2008 in late because I was in mission for job till 2 days ago and no internet access.
Secondly my apologies for being 45 min late yesterday on SOTA activation but it was a bad bad afternoon : after 2h30 driving (238 kms from my departure point), the road access to the summit was closed ! I was redirected on a road absolutely wrong, then I decided to go back in order to find another access, and doing this in a field entry, my car bogged down and slided on the right during 5 (very long) meters ! I managed to exit by a reverse operation on 200 meters (through the field), then arrived to a very muddy road, had to find some wooden fragments to put under car wheels and finally exit this hell !
I drove to a place about 50m down the summit and so decided to set there (I couldn’t go back home now ! HI).
During the station set up, my fiber glass fishing rod broke at the middle !! Aaargh… What a bad day !
That matter, I called CQ with my G5RV Junior at 2.50meter height !
So all my congratulations to the 10 Chasers contacted (with very good reports anyway) ! (including DL4FDM/P on S2S !)
No response on 7 SSB and 10 CW.
I will add the link of the video when ready, and post it there.
Vy 73 de Chris F8DZY.
In reply to F8DZY:
We all have bad days sometimes Chris!!
Thanks for the 40m contact. I heard you say you were QSYing to 30m, so I listened for you there, but didn’t hear anything here in Southern England.
73 de Les, G3VQO
In reply to F8DZY:
Sorry to hear you had a bad day Chris.
Thanks for the 40m-cw QSO under such condx.
73 de Mike GW0DSP
In reply to F8DZY:
Quelle aventure…!!
J’espère que le retour s’est bien passé Chris !
A bientôt sur de nouveaux sommets.
73 QRO
Alain F6ENO
In reply to F8DZY:
Salu Chris,
I am sorry to hear about your unlucky day
and surprised about your good signal
with the “mini-G5RV”!
You dont have to buy a new fibreglass 
Many thanks for the nice s2s-QSO
between F/MC-191 and DM/HE-102.
Condx were difficult yesterday afternoon
and I was lucky because some regular-chasers
were waiting for you on the qrg when I
called cq-sota.
I think we could write a complete book
about things happend on SOTA-peditions,
like fibreglass-crash, roads closed,
keyer left at home, gloves left at home,
crazy animals, etc. hi
Now things only can be better in 2008 !
Vy73 sota4ever et à bientôt
Fritz DL4FDM,HB9CSA
Thanks all for your messages…
Oui Alain, trés bien mais de nuit, ç’est “maman” qui n’était pas trés contente HI !
The video is ready and online on YouTube. Here’s the link, good watch…
Vy 73 de Chris F8DZY.
In reply to F8DZY:
Merci beaucoup pour le fb video Chris!
Je suis trés heureux d’écouterai mon signal
(et mon qsd…hi) avec mes mains froids.
À bientôt pour un prochaine s2s
peut-être avec mon indicatif F/HB9CSA/p.
Meilleurs 73 QRO
Fritz DL4FDM,HB9CSA
In reply to DL4FDM:
My pleasure dear Fritz ! And congrats for your french, I can’t add 2 words in german ! CUL from another SOTA…
Vy 73 de Chris F8DZY.
In order to have a better idea of what the height of the dipole meaned, please have a look at :
http://www.sota-france.fr/f8dzy-mc-191.html
Vy 73 de Chris F8DZY.