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| Tiny panorama view from the DM/NW-003 summit |
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| Tiny panorama view from the DM/NW-001 summit |
73 de DO5GBN
Freitag, 8. April 2011
SOTA - Go tell it on the mountains
Not very long ago I noticed, that the german DM branch of the SOTA project has 2 summits very near of where I live. These exist for quite some time, but I was not paying attention to SOTA at all for many years - I was not even aware, it existed, to be honest. Last weekend, me and my girlfriend where trying to get outside and I could convince her to visit one of the summits. I was not going to activate it, but instead look, if there was a decent place to try an activation from. I have visited this summit before (DM/NW-003) and it has a beautiful look over the Rhine area.
On the top of the so called Ölberg, there is a small restaurant and on the top of that, the antenna of DB0SG, a local 70cm repeater. Usually from there I try to work DB0FT, a 2m repeater about 120km south of the Ölberg. I always think of it as a challenge, to turn down the transmit power as low as possible and still get reasonable reports. Sadly, I reached the repeater very well with 50mW and my NA-701 whip using the Kenwood TH-F7, but my CQ calls were left unanswered. ... Still remaining: A bunch of beautiful pictures that we took and that panorama picture.
In the summer, I will revisit and activate that summit as well as DM/NW-001 on 2m as my start in the SOTA program. I am looking forward to that!
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Hah! A SOTA summit with a restaurant on the top? You guys have it too easy. :)
AntwortenLöschenWell, you may be right. But while we were there and I was working a repeater somewhere far away, about 5 people asked me about what I was doing... when I told them about "ham radio", they were all quite surprised, that even young people still participate. Combining SOTA and publicity work is a great thing, I think. :) - I have to say that I am always very cautious and as silent as possible to not disturb anyone.
AntwortenLöschenI have been at the second summit (DM/NW-001) today and its a great spot, too. Look at the picture at http://gallery.jpoetry.net/main.php?g2_view=panorama.Panorama&g2_itemId=7740. Its not true 360°, because the weather was preventing me from taking precise photos.
The weather was not that great and conditions on 2m were not great at all, but I have some new findings about the - I will call it JMT-228. I will as I said write about it as soon as my equipment for measuring power and frequency has arrived.