As part for our Scotland holiday I planned a few SOTA activations. It turned out that the hills in Fife were barely activated on HF so far. GM/SS-198 could be squeezed into the family diary before having lunch in Kirkcaldy. I parked the car on the East side of the hill und walked to the top within 15 minutes. Weather was very windy and I had to errect my antenna on the East side instead of the preferred Southern slope towards Central Europe.
30 August 2009: 10:50 – 11:12 UTC
22 CW QSO on 7’031.5 kHz
Car park: 56.239221 N / 3.207659 W
Hiking statistics – uphill only:
Time: 15min
Distance: 1.0km
Total Ascend: 111m
Total Descend: 0m
Temperature: 15C
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- QSL card for the GM/SS-198 – East Lomond activation.
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- The spacious car park.
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- The track begins …
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- … and even a mountain biker goes up the hill.
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- a few locals.
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- On top of East Lomond with both West Lomond – GM/SS-154 (right) and Bishop Hill – GM/SS-187 (a bit to the left in the centre) in the background.
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- A bit further down this structure was found.
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- View back to the car park with Largo Law – GM/SS-259 at the horizon.
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- East Lomond from the West side near the car park I used for West Lomond – GM/SS-154.
HB9CZF 