22 July 2012: 15:41 – 15:56 UTC. Hill #8 on my DM/BW-235, 233, 175, 176, 232, 193, 161 and 157 roundtrip.
19 CW QSO on 7032 kHz
Statistics provided by Watt’s Up Meter:
11.35V / 0.35A during RX of the K2
2.3Wh / 0.212Ah which I used for 19 QSO
11.16Vm – Volt Minimum
19.1Wp – Watt Peak
1.70Ap – Ampère Peak
Car park: 47.984076 N / 8.649046 E
Hiking statistics – uphill only:
Time: 17min
Distance: 700m
Total Ascend: 100m
Total Descend: 96m
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- Osterberg, DM/BW-157 was my last hill for this trip and 40m produced only QSO over longer distances. I was also prepared for another hill, Lindenberg, DM/BW-156 but it was Sunday evening and I had to get up at 5am next morning.
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- The easy option would be: Take the same car park as I did and follow the red path until you reach 900m asl.
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- Osterberg was Summit #8 on my tour. Unfortunately planning wasn’t mastered very well …
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- Such a nice path and roughly 1km to hike to reach the activation zone.
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- I instead focused too much on the real hill and went through bushed and over tree trunks. Next time I know better 🙂
HB9CZF 
Today I took another approach: Drive up the steep road from Ippingen village to the borderline of the forest. This takes you a little higher than the car park you mentioned. The summit position is wrong in the SOTA database. Check Google Earth and you will find that the activation zone (896m and above) is huge and includes several nice spots.
73, Markus
The car park mentioned by Markus, HB9BRJ has following coordinates: 47.981003 N / 8.662832 E; 860m (according to KOMPASS.Maps) resp. 841m according to Google Earth.