2 October 2012: 16:02 – 16:38UTC
Temperature around 16C and sunny.
31 CW QSO on 10118 kHz
8 CW QSO on 14061 kHz
This was my first SOTA hill in Canton BL and I was up Geissflue several times during my childhood.
Statistics provided by Watt’s Up Meter:
13.41V / 0.36A during RX of the K2. The recitifier was connected to the “green” Powerpole.
0.586h which I used for 39 QSO @ 10W
13.09Vm – Voltage minimum
30.7Wp – Watt Peak
2.34Ap – Ampère Peak
Car park: 47.41672 N / 7.95598 E, 805m
Hiking statistics – uphill only:
Time: 22min
Distance: 1.0km
Total Ascend: 153m
Total Descend: 0m
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- Car park -> Naturfreundehütte and then up the hill through the forrest.
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- I approached Geissflue from West where the Naturfreundehaus is. Walking up the hill takes 20min.
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- Geissflue is in the corner of Canton AG, BL and SO. This landmark shows the flag of Basel Landschaft (BL).
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- and on the other side Solothurn (SO).
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- I reached the top. BTW, downhill is only 10 minutes 🙂
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- The top features a bench and views towards North.
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- My antenna was right at the cliff and was a 2x 6.7m doublet with 9m CQ553 feeder into a K2.
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- Sunset around 17:45 UTC. The hills belong to the Jura chain.
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- The nuclear power plant Gösgen with the Alps in the background (roughly 100km away).
HB9CZF 