OE2SNL, OE2WNL and OE2ATN | designed by OE2ATN | hosted by OE2WNL http://www.oe2wnl.at Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:51:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 SOTA first 3 summits this winter http://www.oe2wnl.at/2011/12/sota-first-3-summits-this-winter/ http://www.oe2wnl.at/2011/12/sota-first-3-summits-this-winter/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:15:00 +0000 tom http://www.oe2atn.at/?p=929 SNL Franz did a very good job in activating his last 3 summits this year… Already within the bonus-points season he achieved another 31 points!

3 summits, OE/SB-224 Bernkogel, SB-211 Reiterkogel and SB-189 Hochalmspitze were activated yesterday. Conditions were quite o.k. Franz said. Up on the first summit he had to use gloves while CWing, later on temperatures came up to a CW friendly level.

2011 has been the most successful year in his SOTA actitity and will be hard to beat next year – I hope for some 2 or 3 OM-activations… Not less than 50 summits with a total of 421 points are in the log. Many congratulations from my side and all the best for a lot of points and fb days out in nature next year! Sota summit 100 will be hiked in 2012 – we have to choose a special one…!

We are working on our SOTA-stations while the rough winter months and hope to bring up some inprovements next year (“APRS to SOTA services” should help us in spotting: SpotAPRS, APRS2SOTA). So stay tuned! Hopefully temperatures go up in march and the first few summits can be activated by ski and snowshoes before april 1st (within the bonus season).

73!
All the best for 2012 from all of us!
Tom, OE2ATN

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The second planned summit for today, OE/SB-182 Hochkranz could not be activated. After more than half an hour of calling CQ SOTA we had to QRT with one QSO on 2m band.

Over all another very nice activation – CU on the next one or from ZF2!! Our DX-pedition starts in 20 days!!
OE2SNL & OE2ATN

]]> http://www.oe2wnl.at/2011/09/sota-oesb-079-seehorn/feed/ 0 last 3 summits for this week http://www.oe2wnl.at/2011/09/last-3-summits-for-this-week/ http://www.oe2wnl.at/2011/09/last-3-summits-for-this-week/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:27:29 +0000 tom http://www.oe2atn.at/?p=914 Once more we could activate three summits a day. Grießner Hochbrett, Hundshörndl and Hochdurchkogel count 26 points for our logs…Unfortunately QSB made it hard to read some stations but conditions were good enough to collect at least 4 QSO`s on each summit. Many thanks to our locals OE7SPI Peter and OE2WMN Mathias who helped us with QSO`s on 2m band!!
Peter supported our activation with a Pinzgauer 4×4 truck and brought us up as far as possible – nevertheless from there it was still a 1,5 hour walk to the highest summit…

Conclusion of the last 4 days on SOTA:

  • 12 summits
  • 66 QSO`s
  • 104 points
  • abt. 10.000 meters in altitude difference
  • abt. 44 km of walking distance

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73!
OE2SNL and OE2ATN
… now it`s enough and we will pause for a while …

]]> http://www.oe2wnl.at/2011/09/last-3-summits-for-this-week/feed/ 0 another 3 summits activated… http://www.oe2wnl.at/2011/08/another-3-summits-activated/ http://www.oe2wnl.at/2011/08/another-3-summits-activated/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:18:26 +0000 tom http://www.oe2atn.at/?p=913 Franz and Tom can`t get enough of SOTA this week and therefore we also were QRV today again. Another three summits got their first activations…Fortunately we also had a little PileUp today on the 2nd summit. Conditions seemed fine today apart from some QSB and sometimes QRM – sorry for that but the frequencies mostly look good with the small RIG up on the summits…

Nevertheless again a very cool day!
Thank`s everybody answering our calls!
CU mby tomorrow again ;)

OE2SNL and OE2ATN

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In total today: 4 hours of walk and 2.000 meters altitude difference…
Tomorrow tuesday we will not be QRV – we have to rest a little before we probably activate the next one(s) on wednesday. Predicted WX tomorrow not really good as well.

CU on the next one…
OE2SNL and OE2ATN

]]> http://www.oe2wnl.at/2011/08/sota-triple-wildseeloder-henne-larchfilzkogel/feed/ 0 SOTA triple 12 hour hike http://www.oe2wnl.at/2011/08/sota-triple-12-hour-hike/ http://www.oe2wnl.at/2011/08/sota-triple-12-hour-hike/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:30:33 +0000 tom http://www.oe2atn.at/?p=909 Franz and Tom decided to activate 3 summits in the area of “Leoganger Steinberge” today. Yesterday up there quite a bit of snow fell but all the paths could be passed without problems…Conditions were not good today and we were hardly heard with our 5W. Franz was QRV on SSB too today – mby. tomorrow in CW with his paddle and my (Tom`s) RIG. We`ll see how fast he will do all the QSO`s and I will probably have to call CQ many times again… Hope for better conditions tomorrow…

Up on the last summit we were very glad to hear OE2WNL Wolf because he was the 4th absolute necessary QSO-partner ;-) Well of course we would have been glad too if he would not have been our knight in shining armor!!! HI HI

All in all we have been out in the mountains for 12 hours today. 2.800 meters height difference and a track length of abt. 12 km.

CU tomorrow!
OE2ATN and OE2SNL

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QSO`s today:
OE2SNL, DG4MEM, DC6FQ, DL1ZI

Really cool day – we have to repeat this with a shortwave-rig…
CU on the next one!
Tom aka OE2ATN

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On the first summit the conds were quite good – noise levels of abt. S3 and clearly received stations. The second summit brought some heavy QSB but I got some “59″ as well.

Worked stations today:
LA8BCA, G8BVJ, OZ4RT, G0RQL, M1CNL, IZ0CXV, F2YT, F4LKC, PI4DX

OE2SNL Franz was on SOTA too today but I unfortunately couldn`t work him. I´m not CWing yet, and he had no VHF with him, I guess…

73 & 55 de OE2ATN

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