I want to activate Horsterwold PAFF-037 on Monday April 8.
Start around 10.00 UTC.
Frequency around 7.144KHz and 14.244 KHz, perhaps later on other bands as well.
73 de Hans PA3FYG/p
PA0SKP as a Garden Gnome
PA3FYG on DM/SR-006
Results of our trip:
We had a nice time without any technical problems.
If the summit was flat we worked with 2 stations, distance about 250 m. We had no interference, even on the same band in SSB and CW.
Both stations with vertical antenna, I worked with 50 W SSB, Sake with 10 W CW.
My EndFed vertical worked fine, the small mechanical alterations by Ron PA3RK we an improvement for me. (no insulator at box, new coil connection, 4 mm socket screw type ). I placed the wire from the top of the 10m pole sloping to the box in the snow.
It was big fun to activate 11 summits in 2 days. We proofed for our selves that it can be done, without cheating or choosing drive-on summits.
On Saturday the WPX SSB contest was a problem, I could not work not many SOTA chasers so exchanged contest points, but Sake did good work in CW.
I managed to activate 5 summits with one 4 cell 5000 mA Lipo, 50W output.
| 28/Mar/2013 | ON/ON-001 (Signal de Botrange) | ONFF-001 |
| 28/Mar/2013 | DM/NW-258 (Weißer Stein) | DLFF-047 |
| 29/Mar/2013 | DM/RP-432 (Potzberg) | no |
| 29/Mar/2013 | DM/RP-481 (Potschberg) | no |
| 29/Mar/2013 | DM/RP-488 (Selberg ) | no |
| 29/Mar/2013 | DM/RP-420 (Königsberg) | no |
| 29/Mar/2013 | DM/SR-074 (Schreck) | DLFF-105 |
| 29/Mar/2013 | DM/RP-171 (Röster Kopf | DLFF-105 |
| 30/Mar/2013 | DM/SR-006 (Trautzberg) | no |
| 30/Mar/2013 | DM/SR-009 (Weiselberg) | no |
| 30/Mar/2013 | DM/SR-007 (Füsselberg) | no |
| 30/Mar/2013 | DM/SR-021 (Langheck) | no |
| 30/Mar/2013 | DM/RP-485 (Rockeskyller Kopf) | DLFF-136 |
Result PA3FYG: 13 summits, 56 points and 213 QSOs. I did activate DM/RP-171 in Feb. already, so no points for me. ( 20 and 40 m SSB )
Result PA0SKP: 13 summits, 62 points and ??? QSOs. ( 20, 30 and 40 m CW )
PA0SKP climbing DM/SR-009
From Thursday March 28 to Saturday March 30 Sake PA0SKP and Hans PA3FYG are activating Summits for SOTA program in the Eifel/Saarland region in Germany.
Many of them are also in a DLFF – ( 047,073,105,136 or other) + ONFF-001
We will use one or two stations. Sake using mainly CW, Hans only SSB.
Main frequencies 7.118-ssb,14.285-ssb, 7.032-cw,10.118-cw,14.061-cw
Using 25w and vertical.
Spots and last minute info on http://www.sotawatch.org/
If traffic is ok, then ON/ON-001 at >15.00h, DM/NW-258 > 16.15h. Perhaps we have to skip one summit.
73 de Hans DL/PA3FYG/P
73 de Hans PA3FYG
We had a nice trip in the Eifel with snow > 500 mtr.
Activated 12 summits:
DM/RP-003 (Schwarzer Mann) DLFF-047
DM/RP-017 (Apert)
DM/RP-171 (Röster Kopf) DLFF-105
DM/RP-158 (Erbeskopf) DLFF-105
DM/RP-160 (An den zwei Steinen) DLFF-105
DM/RP-187 (Wildenburger Kopf) DLFF-105
DM/RP-449 (Teufelskopf) DLFF-105
DM/SR-008 (Sinnenberg) DLFF-105
DM/SR-012 (Schaumberg) DLFF-105
DM/RP-178 (Haardtkopf)
DM/RP-005 (Prümscheid) DLFF-136
DM/RP-002 (Ernst Berg) DLFF-136
About 520 QSOs on 40m and 10 QSOs on 20m SSB.
73 ,de Hans DL/PA3FYG and xyl José
We had a nice holiday, but it was wet. Activated 10 summits on 20/40m SSB. Made about 300 QSO’s. Lot in DLFF-073/103.
The temperature was about 8 degrees, so no snow at all.
At the last summit, I had a unexpected meeting with Lutz DL3SBA, a very active activater. He read about my plans and found me when we were going down from the black coal “summit”. His dog likes SOTA very much, he recognignizes the SOTA bagback, when they are traveling to a mountain !!!
See the other pictures.
2-1-2013 DM/NW-238 (Hellefelder Höhe) no
2-1-2013 DM/NW-182 (Kehlberg) DLFF-073
2-1-2013 DM/NW-244 (Hardt) DLFF-073
3-1-2013 DM/NW-190 (Schiershagen) no
3-1-2013 DM/NW-214 (Beerenberg) DLFF-103
4-1-2013 DM/NW-208 (Sellenstücke) DLFF-073
4-1-2013 DM/NW-206 (Homert) DLFF-073
4-1-2013 DM/NW-227 (Lumberg) no
5-1-2013 DM/NW-237 (Köpperkopf) no
5-1-2013 DM/NW-255 (Halde Haniel) no
From 2-5 Jan 2013 I will try to activate SOTA Summits nr. Winterberg in the Sauerland ( DM/NW)
I hope wx gets better….
Most are also in DLFF.
DLFF-044 Nature Park Bergisches Land
DLFF-052 Nature Park Ebbegebirge
DLFF-073 Nature Park Homert
DLFF-103 Nature Park Rothaargebirge
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Sometimes difficult to tell the number!!
Starting around 11.00 UTC? on Wednesday Jan 02.
Spots on http://www.sotawatch.org/
SOTA freq. around 7.118/14.285 MHz, SSB only.
Hope to work you.
73 de Hans DL/PA3FYG/P
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I activated this reference on November 5.
In this link you can see the details and pictures
In the rest of this week ( 24-29 oct.) I will try to activate one ore more new PAFF references.
Starting Tuesday 23th.
I will mainly work on 40m +/- 7.144 KHz and +/- 14.244 KHz. I will start arround 10.00 UTC depending on distance and traffic.
I test the a 12m long Hyendvertical from PA3EKE (10/20/40m ) and compare with my 10m vert with 5 mtr symetrical feeder and tuner ( + 3 radials ).
I will work SOTA style, all equipment in bagpack, using FT897D, vertical and 5000 mAH LiPo.
I will announce details later.
73 de Hans PA3FYG/P
I am very happy to announce that my friend Lars PH0NO has done a lot of work for the PAFF in the last months and that we will join our work.
He made a nice website pa-ff.nl, did an application for 25 new reference’s, started the PAFF award program, made some nice awards and made a local database with logs from PAFF activators.
These new references are already accepted and are publicized in the new directory.
This site: www.smitzeewolde.nl will now only be used for my personal info about my amateur activities.
Please visit paff.nl for all PAFF info and use paffcoordinator@gmail.com for all contacts with us. This mail-address is redirected to Lars PH0NO and me ( Hans PA3FYG )
Organization of the PAFF program from now:
Lars de Laat – PH0NO (representative PAFF)
Hans Smit -PA3FYG (co-representative PAFF)
73 de Hans PA3FYG
