This year the DM/NS-108 got a new „Windpark“ (Power-Turbines) The new turbines are about 150m high. The summit was remeasured and the summit got a new shape. Official height is 196m. Later the summit will get an outlook tower on a height over 200m asl. Since yesterday is NS-108 in the SOTA program returned. That confused some chasers today who looked only on SOTAwatch (This is no longer a valid summit after 31/12/2008) and not into the Database. But I hope we will have some nice QSO in future … today I had to close the operation. Rain started and too much confusion on 40m 😉
Petra (DF5ZV) told me this afternoon via facebook, that she had a nice run in the Scandinavian Activity Contest (SAC) on 14 MHz. When sun came out in the late afternoon – Co-Operator Anton and I decided, that we will make a walk over the Piesberg. On the summit came very quickly 10 QSO into our log and we continued the walk …
MP1 Antenna - in the background teh 150m high power-turbinesCo-OP Anton - always in the center of the station
Klaus, DO1KLI, reported this morning on 2m that 21MHz is wide open. Christian, DO7AG, confirmed that and reported, that he just made 30 QSOs. Okay – 15m is not my favorite band but Anton and me wanted to try it. In the afternoon we climbed on the Piesberg. Our RaDAR 5×5 station was qrv in 4 minutes and 30 seconds. (RaDAR = Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio, 5×5 = 5 Watts in 5 Minutes) We heard a brasilian station with 59. But no answer on several CQ calls. ALso a N4-Station
eQSL K9MY
understood only „DC7CC“ instead „DC7CCC“. It was very hard with QRP/SSB/MP-1 to make QSOs. But luckily I reached 4 stations within 10 minutes. LR2F from Argentina, KD4D and K9MY from the U.S.A. and DO1KLI from my neighbor village. POINT! 4 QSO and all okay.
Today was the WNA – Westphalia North Activity-Evening (2m / 70cm). That’s every first tuesday in a month. During the walk with the dog I set up my portable station. 5 watt + HB9CV. The first QSO was surprising OZ1DLD/p without any problem. (in the NAC contest) After 10 minutes I had my needed 4 QSO in the log and could continue my walk with Anton … QTH was the new shaped 194m asl summit on the Piesberg.
On Saturday the 4th of September I climbed again on the „Preußisch Velmerstot“ At the Velmerstot ends the well known 156km long „Hermannsweg“ Hiking trail thru the Teutoburg Forest. But I only walked the last 5km (look at the GPS-track) from the car park over the Silberbach via the „Lippische Velmerstot“ (441m asl) to the „Preußisch Velmerstot“ (468m) with the Eggeturm (watchout tower).
It was nice sunny weather that day and I wanted to play around a little bit with antennas, tune over the bands, make SSB and CW, HF and VHF.
At the end of the day I had 91 QSO in the log. It was a nice day with having lunch on the summit, watching from the tower, ragchewing, observe the late summer sunny nature.
My used station on that day:
Yaesu FT-817
100w PA for 10-80m
Link Dipole for 40 / 30 / 20 / 15 + 10m
Dipole for 80m
HB9CV for 144 MHz
On 2m I heard a lot of G-Stations, but my transceiver had too low power (5w) in the contest-qrm to reach them …
Thanks all for the contacts, the many spots and first time for me: a SOTA spot from DX … special thanks to VE2JCW for the QSO and the spot.
This is the „Home-QTH“ of DR4WFF (aprs.fi) Today my HAM friends Klaus (DO1KLI) and Christian (DO7AG) wanted to test my portable PSK station. Hardware was a eeePC with a Sound-Card-Modem from Landolt and my FT-817. Result: It doesn’t work! The soundlevel via this galavnic separated modem was too low – RX very good, TX very bad 🙁 So, I cannot recommend this PSK-modem.
The MP1 beside the refuge
Especially because one cable was wrong connected. Instead into DATA out it was connected into the PTT plug of the FT-817. But this fault I noticed before at home.
Because it was YO-DX-Contest I had quick the 4 necessary contacts in the log. Valid activation for GMA (General Mountain Award). Thanks!
Bad weather was coming up, therefore I decided to activate DM/NS-108 as DR44WFF/p again. But this weekend on shortwave. In spite of the WAEDC I had no problems to find free frequencies. Thanks to Ingo, SM6CMU, for the DX-Cluster spot. This helped on 30m.
I made in the past good experiences with the MP-1 antenna on a guardrail. First time this spring at Wittekindsberg (Porta-Westfalica/Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal) DM/NW-186
Yaesu FT-817 ND auf dem PiesbergDrei neue über 100m hohe Windräder befinden sich nun auf dem Piesberg
In der Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung war diese Woche zu lesen, dass die neuen Windräder auf dem Piesberg in Betrieb gegangen sind. Also, mal nachschauen, ob man wieder auf die Felsrippe darf. Die Felsrippe war seit mindestens November letzten Jahres wegen der Bauarbeiten gesperrt. Die riesigen neuen Windräder sehen aus der Nähe betrachtet gewaltig aus! Auch hat der Piesberg eine neue Kuppe bekommen, er ist jetzt mindestens 6m höher. Richtung Süden (Osnabrück)
Blick Richtung Süden. Regen zieht hinter der HB9CV auf
wird ein neuer Aufgang angelegt und in der Nähe des Labyrinths wurde eine neue Sitzgruppe eingerichtet. Fehlt nur noch ein Grillplatz 😉
Vom Teutoburger Wald her sah ich aber schon eine „schwarze Wand“ über die Stadt auf mich zukommen. Nachdem ich die HB9CV in etwa 8m Höhe auf einem DX-Wire GFK-Mast aufgebaut habe, fing es auch schon an zu tröpfeln. Der DARC-Sommer-Fieldday fiel somit quasi ins Wasser. Nach 6 QSO habe ich dann abgebrochen und bin nach Hause geschwommen. Wenigstens den Berg für das GMA (mindestens 4 QSO) qualifiziert.
Ein paar kleine Dinge gibt es noch zu tun, vielleicht ist hier und da auch noch nicht alles ganz rund, da das komplette System nun in genau 7 Tagen enstanden ist. Ebenso werden einige Eingaben (noch) nicht auf alle Fehleingaben überprüft.
Aber wem es nicht zusagt, kann sich komplett aus dem System wieder löschen.
(unter Stats und ganz unten links „Log Löschen“)
Dinge, die noch erledigt werden müssen, sind unter „info“ => „To Do“ aufgelistet.
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