Skreikampen, LA/AH-005

Skreikampen, LA/AH-005, was activated last Saturday. I parked at N 60 33.151, E 011 09.491 (which was easily found). From the parking lot it is a slighly less than 3 km walk to the Summit. The trail is clearly marked.

 

The view from the summit is excellent. Much of lake Mjøsa and it surroundings can be seen.

 

I had planned to stay on the summit for some time and try to work as much as possible on various bands. However, the temperature was only a few degrees, and the wind was terrible strong. Thus, I was soon freezing heavily, and I had to leave Skreikampen after 1.5 hour (for future activation I will remember to bring with me warm clothes and gloves).

 

I used my trusty old FT-817 and an MP-1 vertical whip. All QSOs were on 20 meter. I started with CW and worked 23 stations, and then 10 more stations on SSB. One of the SSB QSOs was a S2S with S57MS/P, who activated S5/KS-061.

 

As usual, I did not get any QSOs on 2meter FM and 70 cm FM.

 

DXCCS: DL, EA, G, HA, HB9, OK, OM, ON, PA, S5.

 

(When I came home, I searched for my callsign on Reversed Beacon Network, and found that I was spotted by skimmers as far away as Maryland and Quebec with good signal levels, which really indicates that the antenna radiates well.)