I just got back home from my activation.
The weather report had announced heavy rain. I was hoping it wouldn’t be that bad and went to HB/ZH-008 anyway. It’s a really nice summit when the weather is good. There are benches and a couple of fire places which I had for myself today.
After a short hike, I arrived at the summit and started to set up my 40m dipole and the 20m GP. Once I was done, it started raining really bad. I sat underneath the trigonometric point to get some shelter and started in CW.
Since I got wet anyway, it was difficult to log my QSOs with a wet touchscreen. After a while I decided to continue the activation with FT-8. This got me my only contact to VK6 and 5 more JA’s, unfortunately no DX S2S. The bag from the Swedish furniture store did a good job keeping my equipment dry 
Although I didn’t hear any of the VK/ZL CW activators, the FT-8 activity was the proof that 20m was at least a bit open. With 40W of TX power, the report I got from VK6QM was -11, I received him with -19. 8 dB difference, so technically the QSO would have been possible even with QRP.
All QSOs were on 20m. While I was doing FT-8, I packed my 40m antenna since I really didn’t feel like spending more time on the summit.
In total I made 21 QSOs:
DX: VK, (1 x FT8), JA (1 x CW, 5 x FT8), 4X (1 x CW)
S2S: LZ2AF/p on LZ/CB-101 and HB9EWO/p on HB/TG-010 (around the corner)
Below I put some photos of my activation.
73 de Jens, HB9EKO
