Another nice day was forecasted and in my quest for the HB9SOTA award I activated both available mountains in Canton Zug (HB/ZG-001, HB/ZH-002) and my 2nd summit in Canton Schwyz HB/SZ-031.
31 May 2014: 11:42 – 12:28 UTC
Temperature: 15 C and sun and clouds
Rig: KX3, 10W, 4400mAh LiPo
Ant: SOTApole, 13.1m Inv. L, 5x 4m Radial
12 CW QSO on 20m, incl. S2S QSO with OZ/DL6AP/p on OZ/OZ-005 and HB9BCB/p on HB/VS-239
7 CW QSO on 30m
21 CW QSO on 40m, incl. S2S QSO with DL2DXA on DM/SX-057, OM3CUG/p on OM/ZA-074 and OZ/DL6AP/p on OZ/OZ-005
Car park: 47.17390 N / 8.74528 E; 876m
Hiking statistics – uphill only:
Time: 35 min
Distance 2.5 km
Total Ascend: 222 m
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- From the car park at Büel (2 CHF for 3h) to Etzel Kulm.
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- Here we are at the big restaurant.
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- View direction South.
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- View direction North-East with Rapperswil.
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- I setup my shack on the West side of the summit.
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- My 5 radials look like a spider …
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- View towards Sihlsee on the way down.
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- … and even further down view towards Lake of Zurich.
HB9CZF 