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5. Juli 20165. Juli 2016

July 2016 VHF Contest from Piesberg

Summit Activation # 515

July and really cold temperatures for summer. But no rain this morning and I took the chance to climb on my hausberg, the Piesberg DM/NS-108. I operated about one hour on 2m and 70cm .. only S&P. No special distances are in the log, but 5 DXCC countries. The station was a FT-857D with 25w output, powered by LiPo batteries, and a DK7ZB 5 ele 2m/8 ele 70cm duoband Yagi. Maybe the condx on 70cm were not good or the performance of the antenna on 432 MHz was bad. I worked only one close station and heard some weak stations, but they did not hear me.

19. Juni 201612. Oktober 2017

AGCW VHF Contest June 2016

Summit Activation # 515

Our car is broken and we decided to buy a new one. But it needs about 6 weeks to rebuild it for wheelchair access. Meanwhile I drive my BMW scooter … and I was ready for AGCW VHF Contest, Antenna and mast were in the scooter’s backpack.

From the „carpark“ Schweizerhaus it is only a short hike, about 1km, until the outlook tower. The setup was routine: put together the DK7ZB 5 ele, push up the fiberglass mast, connecting the station.

I heard the first stations calling CQ, worked one and then as usual: CQ de DM7N. ODX was F6DCD for 434 km. Then suddenly a gush and thunderstorm came up – during a QSO my Palm Paddles were flooded and the key had feeled 50 wpm. That was too quick for me and the other station. Fast as a lightning (like around me) I shut down the station and walked downstairs into the shelter at the foot of the outlook tower and had to wait some 20 minutes until I could leave DA/NI-238 Mordkuhlenberg.

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9. Juni 2016

Another Activation from TERRA.vita Nature Park

Hike to the watermill (first mention 1253 CE), 4000 years old hunebeds (Dolmen) and the Wittekindsburg (castle ruins from the early middle ages / Saxon Wars, sadly no WCA reference) and operating from the bush in TERRA.vita Nature Park (GMA DA/NI-280, GMA Castle DAC/NI-001, DLFF-0125). The temperatures were about 25°C, sunny with a short rain break. In the log are 20 QSOs.

24. Mai 2016

Operating from Wales and England

In early May I (M0GQY) was on a trip to North Wales for operating from SOTA summits and for a little bit sightseeing. I stayed at Mike, GW0DSP, and his wife Anne, who were fabulous hosts. Thanks again! The wx was quiet good, sometimes very windy on the mountains. HF conditions were sadly not so good. Steve, G1INK, joined us for the most time and we also met Mike, 2E0YYY, on G/SP-010, where we set up 3 stations.

The flight was from Bremen to Manchester and back. Of course, there was again a special security check because of the radio equipment, but everything was okay and the inspectors as usual very friendly.

Here some impressions from the trip:

1. Mai 20167. Mai 2017

Burgentag, 1. Mai 2016

CASTLES ON THE AIR-DAY 2016: okay- my decision was „Burg Hachen“ . WX was very cold and misty. I made some QSO as DM7N on 40m CW and then qsyed to the hot coffee

19. März 201620. Juni 2016

Piesberg, DM/NS-108, AGCW VHF Telegraphy Contest

I was today the first time this year qrv from Piesberg (DM/NS-108 / DLFF-0125) Windchillfactor: ICECOLD. Station: 20w, 5 ele Yagi

Karte von OpenStreetMap – Veröffentlicht unter ODbL

14. März 2016

Hankenüll, DM/NS-058

07-FEB-2016: Hankenüll, DM/NS-058, JO42CC. This is a typical landscape from the Teutoburg Forrest. A small ridgeway and on both sides it falls steep down. This was the last SOTA activation from this summit, meanwhile it is deleted. 50 QSOs within one hour, 11°C, heavy winds, 25w output to a linked dipole and a lot S2S (Summit to Summit) qsos.

18. Januar 2016

DM/NS-026 – Hüggel

Die vermutlich letzte, für SOTA gültige, Aktivierung des Hüggels. Zum 1. März 2016 werden hunderte Gipfel aus der deutschen SOTA Liste gestrichen, weil auch im Mittelgebirge die Maßstäbe der Hochgebirge angewendet werden: 150m Schartenhöhe. Das bedeutet, hier in der Osnabrücker Gegend bleibt nur noch der Dörenberg übrig … aber zum Glück gibt es ja „GMA„, bei dem keine Schartenhöhe angewandt wird, sondern der Spaß im Vordergrund steht.

18. Januar 2016

DARC 10m Contest 2016 vom Dörenberg

Für den diesjährigen 10m Contest habe ich mich für die 2x CW Klasse entschieden. Station: FT-817 ND plus 25w PA, Delta Loop ca. 26m über Grund, 350m ü. NHN. Im Log landeten 41 QSO, das ist weniger als die Hälfte, die ich sonst in SSB habe. Score 1400 Pts, das kann ich jetzt nicht einschätzen, wo man da landet … einfach überraschen lassen. 73 von den Bergen, Mario

18. Januar 2016

OZ7CCC/p on OZ/OZ-006 Agri Bavnehøj

Like some years before, I activated on the last day of the year the Agri Bavnehøj in the Mols Bjerge (OZFF-0002). Exactly this 2 hours of the activation we had rain during our holidays.

Only 25 QSOs came into my log. Again, I have a feeling that the QSO number (from SOTA-referenced summits) is steadily decreasing, while the effort of the station becomes larger again. No more QRP, dipole antennas instead an MP-1 portable antenna.