LAFF-0405 Austråttlunden

I had once again the opportunity to activate LAFF-0405 in the morning on October 23. I was QRV on 20 meter (26 QSOs) and 30 meter (17 QSOs) before I had to go QRT.

DXCCs: DL, E7, EA, F, HA, I, OK, OM, ON, PA, S5, SP, UA, UR, 9A.

LA/OL-263 Nårkampen

I had the opportunity to make a short activation at Nårkampen on September 16. This is also a summit where it is very easy to erect antennas. I used my linked dipole, and chose the same strategy as for Kvitberget yesterday. I got 2 QSOs on 40 meter, 7 on 30 meter, and 3 on 20 meter.

DXCCs: DL, EA, F, G, HB9, I, EO, OK.

LA/OL-184 Kvitberget

Kvitberget is located close to Feforkampen. It’s only a short walk from the parking, and it’s easy to erect antennas. Therefore, I used my linked dipole. Because of the poor 20 meter propagation at LA/OL-181, I started the activation on 40 meter. 8 QSOs came in the log. I then QSYed to 30 meter, and got 7 QSOs. Finally, I made some calls on 20 meter, and got 2 QSOs.

DXCCs: DL, EU, F, G, HB9, I, LA, OK, OZ, SP.

LAFF-181 Feforkampen

Feforkampen was activated once more – almost same procedure as the last activations. The only difference was that I chose to operate on 20 meter only. The reason was simply that at this particular summit it is much easier to erect a GP than a (linked) dipole (an end-fed antenna could have been an alternative). This could have been a good idea if the 20 meter had been in good shape. It wasn’t. 45 minutes with CQ did only result in six QSOs. 

DXCCs: DL, F, HB9, UA9.

LAFF-0064 Midtsjøvannet

LAFF-0064 was once again activated earlier today. This was my first QRO activation. I used an IC-706 and a linked dipole. I started to work 20 meter SSB. 16 QSOs came into the log, then I worked 20 meter CW resulting in 38 more QSOs. Finally I spent a little time on 40 meter SSB which resulted in 19 QSOs. It started to rain a little just after I started the activation. However, it was calm, so I could simply put an umbrella over the equipment.

Totally 73 QSOs from 22 DXCCs came in the log.

DXCCs: DL, E7, EA, EU, HA, HB9, I, LX, OH, OK, OM, ON, OZ, PA, S5, SM, SP, SV, UA, UR, 4Z, 9A.

LB/OS-001 Grønliåsen

First Tuesday in month, and time for a 2 meter activity test. It was average conditions. I managed 11 QSOs from stations in 6 locators. Best QRB: 516 km.

DXCCs: LA, SM.