LA/OL-100 Valsfjellet

Valsfjellet was one again activated on September 13.

All QSOs were made on 20 meter, and the conditions were quite good. The weather was really magnificent; sun, calm, and temperature around 16-17C (not bad in September for a QTH 1148 meter above sea level).

Also on this activation, all QSOs were made on 20 meter; 30 on CW and 10 on SSB. One S2S was also worked today; LA5WNA/P on LA/OL-263 Nårkampen.

DXCCs: CT, DL, EA, EU, G, HA, HB9, LA, OE, OK, PA, UU, YO.

LA/OL-088 Ormtjørnkampen

Also this year I activated LA/OL-088 Ormtjørnkampen. The summit is inside Langsua national park, LAFF-0021. Thus, the activations also counts for WWFF.

All QSOs were made on 20 meter; 34 on CW, and 11 on SSB. The conditions were quite good. On SSB, I used only 2.5 watts. Still, I was able to work SV2OXS, as well as receive 5-9 + 5dB from South East England.

DXCCs: CT, DL, EA, F, G, HB9, I, LX, OE, OK, OM, ON, PA, S5, SP, SV, UA, UU, YO.

LA/OL-186 Nylsfjellet

Nylsfjellet was activated on September 12. I parked at N 61 02.962 E 009 57.792. The trail to the summit starts a few meter south, and it is easily found.

At the summit, it is very easy to find a suitable location for erecting a pole.

All my QSO were made on 20 meter; 32 on CW, and 13 on SSB.

DXCCs: CT, DL, EA, EI, G, GM, GW, HA, HB9, OE, OK, ON, PA, SP.

LAFF-060 Svartskog

This was my first “real” WWFF activation. (Actually, I activated LAFF-021 Langsua national park when I activated LA/OL-088 Ormtjørnkampen last August. At that time I hadn't heard about WWFF.).

Svartskog is only a short drive from my home QTH (LA3F has also its QTH within its boundaries). It was a QRP operation with my FT-817 and a linked dipole. I managed to obtain 36 QSOs in the available time, mostly on 20 meter.

DXCCs: DL, EA, EU, F, HA, LA, OK, OM, ON, S5, SM, SP, UA, UA9, UR, 9A.

LB/OL-001 Storhaugen

I activated LB/OL-001 Storhaugen again this afternoon. The required four QSOs were made with my HB-1B and linked dipole.

DXCCs: EU, PA, YL, YO.

LA/RL-063 Vedafjellet

Vedafjellet was my second activation on July 29. At the summit, the wind was very strong, and it didn't seem to be easy to erected my fiberglass pole and dipole. Thus, I decided to use the MP-1 instead.

The conditions were quite poor. 30 minutes with calling on 20 meter CW, had only resulted in 10 QSOs. Therefore, I didn't try to make any SSB QSOs. Instead, I QSYed to 30 meter, and was able to work 2 more QSOs. I then went QRT.

DXCCs: DL, EA, F, OK, PA, SP.

LA/RL-011 Bjørndalsfjellet

The summit was activated on July 29. I parked at Gramstad, N 58 53.020 E 005 27.930, which is close to Stavanger Turistforenings cabin. From the parking lot, it is just to follow the road 2-300 meters further up, an then there are ref painted markers all the way to the summit. It is very easy to find (at least in 2014).

At the summit, I erected my linked dipole (Band Hopper III). All QSOs were made on 20 meter. In about 40 minutes there were no more chasers, 21 QSOs had been made, and I went QRT.

DXCCs: DL, EA, G, HA, HB9, OE, OM, SM, UA, UR.