"Really
it was an amazing
day today from Aratz that I will not forget it easily"
I
started my walk not very early in the
morning, this
summit is very close to my home and the day dawned with fog.
While I was
approaching the summit clouds were
dissolving and the
sun began
to warm
my body. The climb is made by the traditional path that starts from Araia, described in previous spots in my blog
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| Track followed |
I
fix my aerial
in the geodesic vertex. My
working conditions have been a Yagui 3 elements and TM-V71E
set up to medium power. After
reading the user manual of this transceiver I knowed that it was providing
10W instead of 15W said during my activation.
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| EB2GKK/P station at the summit |
I
was following the tropo propagation forecast reports last days and
the selected summit has been successful.
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| Tropo forecast map |
Many
local chasers have
been surprised also here in EA2, listening my calls in English... not in
Basque. I have worked a total of 43 stations of which 10 are from UK,
4 Summit to Summit contacts of which one has been worked with
MW0ECX/p from
GW/SW009, it has been also great
for Neil, as
he told me he was operating from the summit with 5w from his TH-F7E
into a vertical dipole.
This time I
only worked 2m-FM
but getting far contacts over
1100km until the batteries died out at
about 15h30utc. Here I show you on the map some of the more distant contacts from IN82uw:
11:48,145525,FM,EA2DYS/P, IN92nw
11:56,145525,FM,EA2LMI, IN92eu
11:59,145525,FM,EB2JU, IN83mg
12:09,145525,FM,EA2DCA/P, IN82rb
12:13,145525,FM,EB1CU, IN83jj
12:18,145525,FM,EA2BDS/P, IN82jr
12:35,145525,FM,M6NRW, IO82wg
12:37,145525,FM,MW0ECX/P, IO81jw
12:51,145525,FM,EB1HYS, IN82mq
12:52,145525,FM,EA1HDN, IN91as
13:04,145525,FM,2E1GNZ, IO83to
13:06,145525,FM,G0OHY, IO82gw
13:10,145525,FM,G0EWV, IO83to
13:16,145525,FM,G3SMU, IO83so
13:20,145525,FM,G0JEI, IO93ic
13:35,145525,FM,EA2EDN, IN92eb
13:42,145525,FM,G4PGJ, IO92et
14:21,145525,FM,MW0RHD, IO72tw
14:47,145525,FM,GW0IRT, IO81jt
11:56,145525,FM,EA2LMI, IN92eu
11:59,145525,FM,EB2JU, IN83mg
12:09,145525,FM,EA2DCA/P, IN82rb
12:13,145525,FM,EB1CU, IN83jj
12:18,145525,FM,EA2BDS/P, IN82jr
12:35,145525,FM,M6NRW, IO82wg
12:37,145525,FM,MW0ECX/P, IO81jw
12:51,145525,FM,EB1HYS, IN82mq
12:52,145525,FM,EA1HDN, IN91as
13:04,145525,FM,2E1GNZ, IO83to
13:06,145525,FM,G0OHY, IO82gw
13:10,145525,FM,G0EWV, IO83to
13:16,145525,FM,G3SMU, IO83so
13:20,145525,FM,G0JEI, IO93ic
13:35,145525,FM,EA2EDN, IN92eb
13:42,145525,FM,G4PGJ, IO92et
14:21,145525,FM,MW0RHD, IO72tw
14:47,145525,FM,GW0IRT, IO81jt
I
was very lucky
with the several DX into UK worked
for a whole hour while the magic window
remained open. It was absolutely
great, I attach here some comments comming from contacted stations also show their amazement.
Hello
Inaki,
yes
it was an amazing QSO. Conditions were exceptional - I could hear you
calling other UK stations clearly for a good hour. Thank you.
I
hope we can make another S2S QSO again this year!
73s
de Neil, MW0ECX
kaixo
Inaki
Thanks
for eqsl from SOTA EA2/VI-003, really amazing dx for 2metre FM 1102
km. In over 30 years of operating on 2m this my best ever dx on 2m FM
and first over 1000km!
I
hope we can do it again someday.
73
de G4PGJ Dave
Eskerrak
agur.
Hello
Inaki,
it
was very good to work you today from SOTA EA2/VI003
May
I compliment you on your English very good, the attached picture is
me just after I worked you, I was using the handheld transceiver
Yaesu VX-170 ON 5 Watts into a vertical aerial on my roof @ 350 feet
asl.
QSL
card is 100% via eqsl.cc
My
locator square is IO72TW
Best
73 God bless.
Bob MW0RHD
Hi
Inaki
it
was good to work you on the sota summit ...you were very lucky to get
the good contacts very good skip to uk hi ... you were coming in very
well on my old kenwood tm731e abt 20w into d/band anttena on my roof
you were verry good 5/3 to 5/5 at times good hi ..ok inaki e.qsl is
good by me and i also send you my personal card ....so all the best
from les G0JEI
Thanks
a lot to all local chasers
for your calls and company, also
to the good friends spotting me on Sotawatch. I hope this activation
will inspire other stations to use this band for DXs.
Looking
forward to the next tropo pass, 73s de Inaki.
Next pictures were taken during my way back after packing everything.
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| Ready for back home |
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| The cold keeps the last snow on the summit |
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| Looking backward, Aratz from Elurzuloak |
