LA/BU-026 Ringkollen

A winter activation to Ringkollen is always fun. Nice terrain for skiing, beautiful scenery at the summit, beautiful weather, temperature abt 2C and valid for SOTA. I activated it once more on March 23 2021.

I started on 20 meter, the activity didn’t seem to be very high, but 7 QSOs came in the log (5 SSB and 2 CW). Thus, I QSYed to 40 meter and was able to work 13 more stations (10 SSB and 3 CW). I got two S2S, both from HB9. It was especially fun to work HB15SOTA as one of the S2S.

The stations came from 10 DXCCs:

DXCC: DL, EA, F, G, GM, HB9, OM, PA, SV, YO.

LA/OS-003 Tryvannshøgda

I activated LA/OS-003 Tryvannshøgda earlier today.

First, I was QRV on 40 meter SSB and five chasers came in the log.

Next, I QSYed to CW and put a spot on Sotawatch. So far, so good. But when I started to call, I discovered that the cable to the paddle was partly broken – I could only send dashes! What should I do? I had two options; either to QRT or to (try to) use one of the paddles as a keyer. I tried the latter one. The result was an awful poor CW, but fortunately sufficiently OK for the chasers to decode. I can only apologize for the CW, and nevertheless 12 chasers were worked.

DXCCs: DL, EA, F, G, GM, HB9, I, OM, ON, PA, UR, YO.