With temperature 30+ C it was too hot to work in the office and therefore I escaped to the SOTA hills. This time I activated DM/BW-293 and DM/BW-017.
18 June 2013: 13:59 – 14:06 UTC
Temperature: 31 C
Rig: KX3, 10W, 4400mAh LiPo
Ant: SOTApole, 2 x 6.7m Inverted V, 8m CQ553 feeder and 4:1 balun
11 CW QSO on 10’116.5 kHz, inlcuding one S2S QSO with HB9BCB/p on HB/BE-101.
Car park: 47.710335 N / 7.91728 E; 1010m
Hiking statistics – uphill only:
Time: 25 min
Distance: 1.7 km
Total Ascend: 159 m
- Start at the car park and walk zig-zag up the hill. The last bit is through a “grassy” path; see next picture.
- Firstly follow the nicely prepared walking way and for the last bit turn right climb up this path.
- Several landmarks can be seen on the climb.
- and on the top I used one landmark as my antenna support.
- This is another picture from the top. What you can’t see are the many gadflies …