Kvitberget, LA/OL-184

Almost 8.5 months without a SOTA activation is a very long time. On June 11 I had fortunately once again the opportunity to activate a summit. Due to limited time, I chose a summit which is reached easily,
Kvitberget – LA/OL-184.

I also activated Kvitberget two years ago. As last time, I parked at Rudlandsseter (toll road, fee: NOK 30,-)., which is less than one kilometer away and around 80 meter below the summit. The last time, it was very convenient to mount the antenna pole to the trigonometric point. Now it had unfortunately been removed, but I found a small pine which was an excellent substitution. I mounted the antenna (13 meter longwire as an inverted L, three counterpoise wires, and MFJ-16010), keyer, microphone, and power. Then, I realized that the power cable had broken… Sad. Luckily, the internal batteries in the FT-817 was newly charged, and these had to be used during the activation. Therefore, I used the default power setting (2.5 watts). But 2.5 watts were shown to be sufficient.

I discovered that the six meter band was open to S5 and southern part of DL. Thus, I started with working some QSOs on six, because Kvitberget is located within a relatively rare locator (JP41). After a while, I QSYed to 30 meter, then to 20 meter SSB, and finally back to six meter. It was by the way fun to be the first activator the SOTA chaser DJ5AV worked on six. Before I left the summit, I also worked one LA on 80 meter, and made some calls on 2 meter and 70 cm. As usual, no QSOs were achieved, neither on 2m nor 70cm.

All I all, a really fun activation. A total of 13 DXCCs were worked (1-80, 11-30, 7-20, 2-6).

DXCCs: DL, F, G, GW, HB9, I, LA, OE, ON OM, OZ, S5, YL