On 22 July 2013 I did an expedition to HB0 with the goal to activate Augstenberg (HB0/LI-004), then Gorfion (OE/VB-241) and finally Naafkopf (HB0/LI-002 – HB/GR-338 – OE/VB-123).
22 July 2013: 07:34 – 07:53 UTC
Temperature: 20 C, sunny
Rig: KX3, 10W, 4400mAh LiPo
Ant: SOTApole, 13.1m Inv. L, 5x 4m Radial
28 CW QSO on 10’117,5 kHz
Car park: 47.103229 N / 9.607619 E; 1598m
Hiking statistics:
Time: 25 min from Augstenberg, HB0/LI-004
Distance: 1 km
Total Ascend: -109 / +52 m
Descend from Gorfion to Pfälzer Hütte takes 30 min.
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- This is the path from Augstenberg (HB0/LI-004) to Gorfion and down to Pfälzer Hütte.
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- Gorfion in the background and here you are leaving the “official” path.
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- Here we are. After climbing the frist wall you reach the activation zone. Don’t believe what Google Earth wants to tell you. The vertical representation of Gorfion is wrong. I used http://map.geo.admin.ch instead.
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- After this climb you are in the activation zone. Be ware that mobile phone coverage is very patchy and the only network I saw from time to time was “A1”.
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- You meet these fellows all over 🙂
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