If you have been trying for a US summit this might be your chance. There is the very real possibility that on Sunday’s activation Dave and I will be running 100w to a 3 element portable yagi from the viewing castle on W1/HH-002. I know others have done it in Europe, but this would be our first time trying out the Super Antennas YP-3 HF beam on an activation.
Original plans were for another summit, but with the rainy forecast we thought the summit top shelter on W1/HH-002 might be nice & free of pesky hikers…a perfect opportunity to try out the beam.
W1/HH-002 should have a nice shot to Europe, and the castle is at least 30 feet tall so our 20 foot mast would give us a height of 50 feet or so…
So if you were looking for that big signal from W1, this might be your moment…
73 to all and hope to work you on Sunday!
Tom, N2YTF
Mark…In the past I’ve worked W2VV on 14.342.5Mhz SSB which is the HF Pack freq…but he was always QRP. 14.285 seems a bit crowded here in AB land at this time (15:58UTC). Still no post on their aprs site.
I have been tuning through 20m & have not heard any stations from your side of the Atlantic, not even around 14.200 where some of the “Big Guns” hang around. It doesn’t look promising for transatlantic SOTA today but I will keep listening
Mark…there’s a Florida QSO Party happening over on this side of the pond…got a station using 14.284.5Mhz so lots of splatter into .285. Band conditions not so great this weekend! The aprs site should let us know whats happening…slow day here as its snowing…good day to be a shack sloth and play Marconi!
Hi Stu…got a strong station on 14.343 now…just got another station to QSY from 14.344…hope they are still on that freq…lost Dave in QRM from .343Mhz! Good luck!
In reply to G0VOF:
A resonant vertical from a summit here and chances are a QSO would be possible, Same here I can others working W1 but thats it … maybe when they try CW i might hear something? Sean M0GIA