LA/OL-085 Prestkampen

I had the opportunity to activate Prestkampen on September 30. As usual, I parked at Gammeldalen, around 2.6 km away from and some 300 meters below the summit.

This year, I used my HB-1B and a linked dipole (BandHopper III). I had my family with me, and thus it had to be a relatively short activation (SOTA is boring for non-HAMs…). Nevertheless, the activation resulted in 15 QSOs from 8 DXCCs in a relatively short time.

DXCCs: DL, F, OE, ON, SM, SP, UA, 9A.

LA/OL-085 Prestkampen

On October 2 I once again visited LA/OL-085 Prestkampen. It was slightly more than 4 years since the last time. I parked at Gamledalen (the last part is toll road, fee NOK 40).

It was very windy. A strong gale simply made it impossible for me alone to erect any pole and dipole. I thus used my MP-1 instead.

The schools have their autumn vacation this week, and many people were hiking. Prestkampen is the highest summit in this area, and thus a popular destination. On the summit itself, it was in periods crowded. I started the activation in one of these periods, and it was therefore most convenient to start with CW on 20 meter. In a short time, 16 QSOs (and among them 3 S2S) were in the log. Since it so far has only been made CW QSOs from the summit (in the SOTA program), I decided to also offer SSB for the chasers. However, after an initial spotting and 10 minutes of calling, no QSO was made! I have no idea why. The most likely reason is perhaps due to the heavy wind. This could have added to much noise to the signal. I then QSYed to 30 meter, and worked 6 more QSOs before I went QRT. The wind made it simply too cold to stay at the summit any longer! So therefore, non-CW QSOs are still to be made!

DXCCs: DL, EA, F, G, HB9, OE, OK, OM, PA, W.

Prestkampen, LA/OL-085

Prestkampen (LA/OL-85)was activated on July 16. It is the highest summit along Peer Gynt vegen (between Skei and Golå). I activated it together with my family, so only a short activation was possible. The weather was excellent; sunny, relatively calm, and 22C. Not bad 1244 meters above sea-level!!

We parked at Gamledalen (tollroad; fee: 40 NOK), around 350 meter below and 2.5 km away from the summit. The view from the summit is magnificent (some photos are uploaded at flickr).

All QSOs were on 30 meter. After around 30 minutes I went QRTon HF. As usual I did also make some calls on 2m and 70cm but no one answered. Finally, I tried to make some calls via repeaters, but with no luck. I was, by the way, surprised that I was able to open LA8KR at Kongsberg.

Before we started to go back to the car, we also remembered to log the geocache GCGV6K.

Six DXCCs were worked: DL, G, HB9, I, OH, OK.