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SOTA Activation of Pico Bejenado (EA8/LP-003) 10

Jan

26

2015

This was to be my third and final activation on La Palma and with this being the third 10 pointer in the last three days my legs were a little sore! Some key facts about the activation: Date 15/01/15 Walking Time: 2.5 hours up Band: 20m, 17m, 15m & 10m QSOs: 105! Points: 10+3 Height: ...

Elecraft KX3 & SOTA Activation (G/CE-005) on 60m 4

Nov

14

2014

Today I grabbed 1.5 hours to activate my local SOTA summit of Wendover Woods (G/CE-005). The day started out with heavy rain up until midday, but after this the sun came out and it was a lovely winters afternoon. Today I cheated and drove up almost to the road nearest the trig point. Parking Tip: ...

SOTA Activation of Ditchling Beacon (G/SE-006) 1

Oct

26

2014

On Friday night the station manager announced that she was intending to go running in the South Downs, with a running club in the Brighton area on Saturday, thinking quickly I recalled seeing some SOTA summits down that way. A few minutes later I’d checked and Ditchling Beacon (G/SE-006) was about a 1.5 hour walk ...

Preparing SOTA Logs on Mac OS X 2

Oct

26

2014

When i activated my first SOTA summit it took me some time to prepare my log for submission. I logged QSO’s using paper and pen, typed them into RUMlog when i got home (increasing the chance of mistakes), exported the log to CSV and then edited the CSV by hand to match the format expected ...

Wendover Woods – A Tale of Two SOTA Activation Locations

Oct

19

2014

Last Friday i activated the SOTA summit of Wendover Woods for the second time, but this time from a different activation location than my previous activation. I chose to walk to the summit from the nearby village of Tring (easily reached by car and train from London Euston), I followed a walk from the Walking ...

SOTA Activation and a Military Base – Serra de Foia (CT/AL-001)

Oct

9

2014

I recently went on holiday to the Algarve region of Portugal, while here i wanted to complete my 2014 objective of operating abroad, which is one of my new privileges as an M0. I also harbored ideas of activating a SOTA summit while in the region, this was very much secondary as i was with ...

SOTA Activation of Wendover Woods

Sep

14

2014

I finally did it! I’ve had the idea of activating a SOTA summit for some time now, but like lots of ideas they sometimes take a while to come to fruition! This was one of my amateur radio targets for 2014 so i decided to bite the bullet and do it. I activated my first ...

Desk Stand for Elecraft KX3

Feb

1

2014

I’ve had the Elecraft KX3 for a while now and the one accessory i needed (forgetting the long delayed 2m module) was a stand. I wanted a stand for more comfortable operation in both the shack and while out working portable. While here in England we’re in the depths of winter i usually start thinking ...

Elecraft KX3 Portable Operation 3

May

22

2013

I recently purchased and constructed the Elecraft KX3 Transceiver for portable operation. I specifically wanted this for SOTA (Summits on the Air) operation. I wanted to do a test run to make sure everything worked as expected, before i go and attempt to activate my first summit. The first test run was botched and saw me ...