DM/BW-064 – Heersberg – 954m – 10 Points

To build up my activator score I planned another SOTA hopping day: DM/BW-846 -> 064 -> 052 -> 147 -> 046 -> 042 -> 038 -> 228. I left home at 05:30 local time and drove to DM/BW-864 and worked my way back towards HB9. All QSO were done on the 30m band and I went QRT as soon the pile-up ceased and went to the next hill.

20 May 2013: 07:31 – 07:51 UTC

Temperature: 9 C

Rig: KX3, 10W, 4400mAh LiPo
Ant: SOTApole, 2 x 6.7m Inverted V, 8m CQ553 feeder and 4:1 balun

38 CW QSO on 10’117 kHz

Car park: 48.237105 N / 8.932113 E; 910m

Hiking statistics – uphill only:
Time: 17 min
Distance: 1.3 km
Total Ascend: 63 m
Total Descent: 26 m

From the car park to Heersberg.

Here it all starts at the car park.

The first part was paved and many people can be seen on weekends.

At the log pile turn left and follow the gentle slope to the top.

A nice map on the top. The red arrow says “Ihr Standort” (your location)

My private outdoor shack. Probabely the nicest place of all hills I visited that day 🙂

… how I attached the SOTApole to the bench. It starts with a “Mastwurf” (clove hitch) around the base of the SOTApole …

and the view towards North.