Hi Paul, Yes, use a link. While it wont re-open the old thread within this thread, it will enable readers to look back at what you are referring to.
While in the edit/create box - click on the chain logo on the top bar and enter your data like this:
This is a link to my post in the last thread - now with my report on the day.
(a return to this message link is automatically added in the other thread to allow the reader to return here).
73 Ed.
Hi Pete,
I was one of those, calling you from S5/BI-029. You were workable signal for a long time, unfortunately no contact made. I had a problem with wind turning my delta loop all the time, although it was fixed with two guying ropes.
Interesting, I also could not come through to Mike NS1TA on CW at the beginning of the event, but worked him later on SSB!
My station was KX3 @ 15W and V shape delta loop. What was your power and antenna?
Hope to meet you on air next time.
73,
Mirko S52CU
me too was also one of those who called WA7JTM for more than one hour… running K2 / 12 watts to 21m endfed slooper…
73 kurt HB9AFI
Me too. WA7JTM was a good signal with me and I made many attempts to call over a two hour period. No joy though.
NS1TA and VE2DDZ were relatively easy contacts in contrast.
Me too. I lost the cap/bung from my Spirit-of-Air pole using it (inappropriately) to thrash my way through chest-high wet stinging nettles on Grange Fell GM/SS-249. My homebrew replacement bungs were not as good and have got lost too.
73,
Guru
Dang!
Sorry I wasn’t able to work all of those who heard and were calling me on Saturday. I knew there were many stations in there but it was actually a QRP EU pile up on my end. All signals were about the same level and were calling at the same time obviously. I would hear a few letters from one station, and then a different station would cover that one up before I got a full call. repeat…repeat…it happened over and over.
My first 13 contacts were with 9 EU stations and four W/VE stations…six were EU s2s contacts, so it was pretty crazy at the time. After that the conditions deteriorated a bit and the USA stations took over. I only worked three more EU stations after 1454 UTC.
I also see in the “show who chased me” log that one more of the HB9 stations I worked was on a summit. I did not know that he was on a summit when I worked him…HB9DQM…so I will now update that contact as an s2s in my log. It’s already there.
Again sorry I missed working those others who were calling me. I will have to work on my QRP DX Pileup skills Hi Hi.
thanks to all again!
73
Pete
WA7JTM
Hi Pete,
A handy trick when you get the situation of many stations calling - as used by DXPeditions - is to call by number -
“Any station with zero in the call please”
“Nothing heard - OK anyone with One in the callsign”
“OK OE1ABC - you are 5-6 from xxxxx”
“Any more stations with 1 on the callsign?”
“S91XYZ - OK you are 5-3 …”
“any more with one in the callsign”
“nothing heard OK any stations with 2 in the callsign…”
etc.
It should at least split the large pile-up down into smaller groups and for those who just keep calling and calling when it’s not their turn - ignore them, note their call sign and DO NOT WORK THEM.
73 Ed.
Not a brilliant day for me. I didn’t post an alert until the morning and went to G/TW-003 arriving on time and got spotted immediately.
My 1st QSO was with an KA1R 
, who apologised for not being a SOTA op - no problems but that was a good start!! A few other QSOs with regular chasers after my 1 point summit and two Slovenian S2Ss -
I could hear numerous EU SOTA operators calling “CQ NA only pse” as they were overwhelmed by home based chasers. I did hear a couple of NA Sota ops but there were a lot of people answering. By now I was wondering whether my chances would be improved by using the freshly charged additional 2amp back up battery.
Unfortunately I’d rather carelessly lengthened the leads on this by joining/extending the leads and these shorted out when the poor joins I’d made touched each other causing the leads to melt over my brand new fingerless mittens!! Luckily it was unconnected to my HB1B so I continued to use the internal battery. Then in the middle of a QSO the You Kits HB1B died a death. 
Walking home feeling fed up in the now pouring rain, I was wondering what was wrong with my radio and whether I could, A) get it repaired and/or, B) whether I could afford a replacement if need be.
However, when I got home as soon as I switched it on - it came alive! So that was quite a relief and so really the day ended quite well even though I only got a handful of QSO’s
Originally I planned to activate Hummelsberg, DM/BW-228, for this event because it’s a drive-on location with a clear view towards North America. There is also plenty of space on the summit for an antenna farm.
But the weather on Saturday morning was quite variable. While we had sunshine and temperatures up to almost 20°C here in Tübingen, the rainfall radar showed rain showers over Hummelsberg.
Therefore I changed my plans and aimed at Achalm, DM/BW-099, which is close to my home. According to the forecast it would remain dry for the next hours. Only drawback: Due to restricted space I couldn’t set up the delta loop and had to use an Vertical EFHW-dipole on a 10m squid pole.
From the car park it’s about 25 minutes to the top. When I reached the summit there were only few visitors and they were not interested in the bench next to the rim. So I could set up on the same bench I operated during the NA <> EU S2S event in April 2018.
The setup was uneventful and I was QRV at 13:30 UTC. I started searching for other activators but unfortunately the Ukrainian DX contest took place at the same time. A couple of contest stations were calling in the range I would usually have expected SOTA activators. The only station I could find was DL6GCA/p on DM/BW-115. The QSO was most likely on ground wave - 120km across the Black Forest.
With no further S2S QSO available I searched for a clear frequency and started calling CQ SOTA. To my surprise - I was just trying to put on my jacket - several stations answered straight away. Two of them were from NA, K2VV being the loudest with rst at least 579.
When the frequency went quiet, I started searching for Transatlantic S2S. NM5S was the first stateside station but Alan was really faint and soon I couldn’t hear him anymore. Shortly afterwards I came across VE2DDZ on VE2/ES-010. Mal was rst 439 and had a stable signal. I got him on the first call.
After that, I started calling CQ again. During this session eight QSOs came into the log, five of which with NA but no S2S. When I could hear no further stations calling I did search and pounce again. This resulted in two EU S2S QSOs and I heard VE2DDZ again - still good copy! Then I heard WA7JTM on W7A/MN-119. Peter was rst 439 with QSB. I waited until he had worked a couple US stations and called for EU. Somehow I got through but it was tough going and he had to pull each and every letter of my call out of the noise. Looking at the power used, I assume that I was at least one S- unit down compared to Peter’s signal. Nevertheless this was my farthest S2S QSO today 
I started a further session with calling CQ. During the next half-hour four more stations from NA went into the log, the farthest one was NW7E from Oregon! Also the third DX S2S- QSO with NS1TA on W1/EM-020 came through.
I ended my activation with a QSO with LZ2AF/p being my last S2S of the day. Light rain started falling and the clouds looked rather dark now. So I decided to pack in even though it was an hour earlier than I had planned.
At the end I had 31 QSOs in the log. All on 20m CW. Thereoff 13 with NA chasers and 9 S2S from what were 3 with NA activators.
I think I missed some QSOs because I packed in too early.
All in all it was a phantastic day: Better than expected weather, excellent propagation, lots of DX and S2S. Sunspot: # 2750 appeared just at the right time.
Thanks to the organizers and thanks to all for the QSOs and your patience when signals were marginal!
73, Roman - DL3TU
What a great afternoon !! I climbed to my usual summit walking from home. I am a lucky operator who has access to a summit on foot, 10 km round trip. This time the backpack weighed more than usual.
I built for this event a half square set for 20m. Raising the two fishing rods was somewhat more complicated than usual since the wind was very strong at that time. Just when connecting the equipment I had to solve a problem with the BNC connector of the new RG-174 cable, the central conductor is real butter, and it was broken inside the BNC. After an emergency repair, I started transmitting with the usual equipment: FT-817 direct to the tuned antenna, and the 11 Ikea batteries pack.
All in all 26 QSO, 9 of which with NA stations, 7 S2S, 1 of them with VE2DDZ. I listened very well to WA7JTM and tried to open a hole in the wall of NA / EU stations, but it was in vain. I also tried to chase more EU stations, but I couldn’t copy any more. I was surprised not to hear stations in the UK area, perhaps due to the bi-directional pattern of the half square.
In the image you can see that bidirectional pattern.
After hitting the bottom, now we just have to wait for the conditions of the solar cycle 25 to improve !!
Best 73!!
Javier EA2GM
ok PETER I WILL CHANGE REPORT, NO PROBLEM
BEST 73
VASIL
I’m presuming the QSOs were CW Javier? Otherwise 5w SSB would be very very impressive!
Only 2 SSB QSO with EU stations, all others qso in CW.
Best 73
Javier EA2GM
OK…I had to put my map in for this event. I forgot I could do that.
All contacts from Saturday morning.
Pete
WA7JTM
Oo-er… this could solve the winter blues… what with 500+ activations to map. 
P.S. No S2S indicated on map as I don’t log them as such.
P.P.S. For G8CXK/P from G/CE-004, not my G4 call.
I don’t want to be impertinent, but can you explain why that, Gerald?
Is it because you are not interested on S2S QSOs (unlikely after being one of the organisers of the transatlantic S2S event) or is there some other reason I can’t think of?
I have an interest on this because I’ve seen this morning that one of the activators I had S2S QSO with during last Saturday event, seems to have logged me as a standard chaser, not a S2S and I wonder why. I have written him an email about that.
Thank you.
73,
Guru
Hey everyone, here is my summary of the Trans-Atlantic S2S event November 2nd from Hatchet Mountain, Maine USA W1/EM-020.
Apologies for the late post (my neighborhood electric power was down half of the day Saturday and Sunday due to a fierce wind storm storm prior to the NA-EU S2S event). I thought this thread had been closed down. Here is the tally from NS1TA from Saturday:
-Stations worked: 38 mostly EU
-S2S contacts: 18 ALL EU
-Equipment: Elecraft KX-3 at 15 watts
-Antenna: EFHW with traps for 20/17/15 sloping NNE from 7 m pole (Sotaworks)
-Weather: gorgeous fall in Maine with temps about 13 C
This is my favorite SOTA activity each year and I marvel at the fact that we can communicate from remote mountain peaks under low power using simple equipment/antennas that we make with our own hands. Thank you all for another memorable Trans-Atlantic S2S event!
Thats good advice. I will try that on CW with just a number and go through the rotation. During this event I had difficulty picking out the cw stations coming back to me and would often catch the last letter of a callsign when the bedlam died down. Then id send that letter followed by a question mark in cw. Sometimes Id still get two or three replies to it. Im deaf in my left ear so it gets hard to discern a single call in a pileup.
You sounded pretty busy. I gave up trying to get passed the bedlam!! 
You were around 559 on my 1 pointer.
