2 October 2012: 13:59 – 14:43UTC
Temperature around 18C and sunny.
61 CW QSO on 10117 kHz
S2S QSO with DL1DVE/p on DM/SX-239 and HB9BHW/p on HB/ZH-003.
The access was rather easy and I could drive with my car into the activation area. This might be possible due to extensive logging going on and all traffic signs looked rather new. The fallen tree trunk I chose as outdoor shack was full of ants which were climbing up my trousers and I had to counter attack while running a CW pile-up in parallel 🙂
Statistics provided by Watt’s Up Meter:
13.84V / 0.35A during RX of the K2. The recitifier was connected to the “green” Powerpole.
0.482h which I used for 61 QSO @ 10W
13.54Vm – Voltage minimum
28.0Wp – Watt Peak
2.02Ap – Ampère Peak
Car park: 47.49606 N / 7.95667 E, 732m
Hiking statistics – uphill only:
Time: 7min
Distance: 0.5km
Total Ascend: 8m
Total Descend: 4m
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- I was activator #4 on a such an easy hill.
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- I could drive up to the activation zone. Was it because of the extensive logging up there ?
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- The tree trunk was used as outdoor shack. The hundrets of ants was the challenge. Especially if you are running a SOTA pile-up in CW.
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- The roots offer a gread support.
HB9CZF 