This was my last HAM Radio Operation from Faroe Islands this summer. The car park about 500m from Trøllkonufingur has a nice view und was close to my hostel. So I decided to operate from there on a very stormy and rainy afternoon. Transceiver was FT-817, a Windows 7 Netbook with MixW software. Some 20 qsos on 20 and 30m came into the log. BPSK is new to me, maybe more qso were possible.
The storm was very heavy and rocked the mast around … up an down … the linked dipole flipped away … then next setup and next CQ.
I asked at FRA, whether I could operate for a while from OY6FRA in Tórshavn. Luckily Jan, OY3JE and Karstin, OY1DZ, found some time for a meeting and showed me their well equipped clubstation with two HF working places. Also the APRS station for Faroe Islands is running here. We drunk coffee and talked about old and modern HAM Radio times. Via Facebook I asked some friends for a sked and made some SSB QSO and later CW QSO with an ETM keyer. Strange 😉 But it worked with slow CW around 20 WPM. Thanks to Jan and Karstin for their time!
OY/OZ7CCC (aka DL4MFM) in front of a British WWII Gun at Skansin Lighthouse
After my first ILLW 2013 at the „Altes Oberfeuer Lemwerder“ near Bremen I made some QSO from Skansin Lighthouse in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. At this location I had several references: ILLW FO0003 for the lighthouse, WCA OY00001 for the Fortress, OZFF-007 for WWFF, IOTA EU-018 for the Island and OY Faroe Islands for DXCC 🙂 .
In contrast to last year, where I was in Germany and could reach most stations easily on 40m, I had now to operate on the best band 20m. Sadly there was running a Russian Contest what caused a lot of qrm. Some russian stations asked me to give them a serial contest number. Okay – no problem!
Temperatures were around 8°C (August!) and wx from very sunny to rain. My station was a linked inverted V dipole and a FT-817 transceiver with 5 watts output. All QSOs were made in CW. This weekend I used first time the DXW174 coax cable by DX-Wire. Well, this cable is a little bit fuzzy, hard to handle, because of the massive inner conductor. But it works good (okay – I had in this moment nothing to compare). The GFK mast was by DX-Wire, too. The 10m minimast, pushed together = 67cm, 1.3 kilo weight.
ILLW was again a lot of fun again this year. At 14.30h local time I made qrt because I had a date with some local HAMs at their clubstation OY6FRA.
Um den 725m hohen Berg Sornfelli zu erreichen musste ich auf eine andere Insel fahren. Die Insel Vágar ist über einen Maut-Untersee-Tunnel mit der Insel Streymoy verbunden.Die letzten drei Kilometer ist eine enge einspurige Straße, die sich den Sornfelli hochschlängelt. Die tiefhängenden Wolken erlaubten höchstens 30m Sichtweite … hoffentlich kommt mir niemand entgegen! Die Fahrt kam mir schweißtreibender vor als eine Besteigung.
To reach the 725m high Sornfelli mountain I had to go from Vágar Island to Streymoy Island. These two islands are connected by a 6km long subsea tunnel.The last three kilometers at Sornfelli is a single track road. Because the clouds were very low today, it was exhausting to drive up the mountain.
the only spectators today
The sight were max 20 to 30m. So sadly I have nothing seen, where I was.
The antenna was a linked dipole with a FT-817 ND transceiver at a 10m GFK mast. The temperature was about 7°C with light rain. No conditions for a long stay.
The Subsea Tunnel
Caution!
a quick Geocache
Ich begann auf 20m mit dem Funkbetrieb. Sehr schnell waren 31 Stationen im Log. Dann probierte ich 30m und 40m, aber der gleiche Effekt wie diesen Sommer in Schweden und Norwegen: kein QSO. Auf 18MHz war einiges los, es meldete sich aber nur eine Station bis der Regen so heftig wurde, dass ich abbrechen musste.
I started CQing on 20m. Very quick were 31 stations in the log. A qsy to 30 and 40m brought no qso. The same effect like in Sweden and Norway this summer. On 18 MHz I reached one station. Then the heavy rain forced me to make qrt.
Summit-Activation #448 Ein Abstecher nach Norwegen
Today’s activation from Norway (LA/DL4MFM/p on LA/HM-090 Noppi). WX was rainy and the way were most time through absolute wilderness, bog, boulder fields, mosquitos, elk poo. Exhausting. 1 hour for 2km (in Germany 20 Minutes). When I reached the summit I set up the station with FT-817, MP-1 coil, foldet radiator, „linked“ radial and made some 15 QSOs on 20m, then heavy rain and a thunderstorm said: make QRT and go back to the car (a nice S2S QSO with Bernd DL2DXA and also Mike GW0DSP are in the log )
map on a parking place at Hedmark
info about Hedmark
this is the route
Hundreds of „Fuchs‘ Knabenkraut“ Orchids (thanks to Angela, DL1RMI, for identification)
Puuuh – speed is 2 km/h
near the summit
rain, mosquitos, pain
successful operation – lucky!
The way back via OSM. I think the first 1.5km the GPS doesn’t work
Aktivierung von SM/VL-004 Hovfjället (SMFF-1704). Ich hoffte, wenigstens 4 QSOs ins Log zu bekommen; denn auf 40m und 30m war in den letzten Tagen nicht viel zu hören. Andere Bergaktivierungen kamen hier nur sehr schwach an. Auf 20m war auch nicht viel los, schien mir aber am ehesten geeignet als erstes Band zu versuchen.Direkt nach meinem ersten CQ meldete sich Dom, F6EPO, und wir hielten ein längeres QSO. Offensichtlich landete ein RBN Spot im SOTAwatch und daraufhin kamen 21 Stationen in das Log, mit dabei zwei S2S (Summit to Summit) Verbindungen mit schweizer Stationen.
Das hat sich doch gelohnt … die XYL wartete am Auto und dann gab es Kaffe og Kaka …
Activation from SM/VL-004 Hovfjället (SMFF-1704). I hoped for 4 QSO for qualifing this reference, because I used only 5 watts with the MP-1 antenna. Last days I checked the bands and 40 + 30m signals were weak weak weak and 20m nearly dead.So I decided to begin on 14 MHz and got surprisingly a good start. 21 QSO were in the log when I made qrt after 1/2 hour. All on 14 MHz incl. two S2S QSOs with Switzerland. Nice!
After this activation XYL Bettina and me visited a nice swedish cafe.
Road to the Summit
The Activation Area
View from the Top
Hikingmaps at the carpark
Operating on 20mRBN does not reflect the condx, they were really better
Today I activated the last summit of the Wiehen Hills Ridge around the Wittekind Hiking Trail in Lower Saxony. Only a few kilometres ago is the Nonnenstein with an outlook tower and it is the first summit in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The conditions jumped up and down. Not so much QSOs came into the logbook. I used my FT-817 ND barefoot, 5w output, and the MP-1 antenna. The first time with one fullsize radial instead the original radials. I think it was easier to tune the antenna and the bandwith was more wide.
I made a lot of summit-to-summit (S2S) QSOs: Lutz DJ3AX with DL0GMA on „Hoher Stein“ DA/TH-073 in Thuringia, Bernd DL2DXA on Lilienstein DM/SX-057 in Saxony, Andy as OZ/DL6AP/P from the Aborrebjerg on the denish island of Møn (OZ/OZ-005), HB9BCB/p from the 1992m high Bec du Corbeau (HB/VS-239) in Switzerland and OM3CUG/p from 922m high summit Cernatín (OM/ZA-074) in Slovakia.
Großer Kellenberg, DA/NI-068
A Waterfall in the Wiehen Hills
Green Lake – its color is caused by calcium carbonate
stairs to master a steep slope
path off the beaten track
nice weather this weekend
… but that’s the result of the last day’s rain
Caution: Steep Slope
pathing a nature reserve
The rocks at Nonnenstein
the renewed radio shack
… on the Wittekind Hiking Trail
Nonnenstein Tower
Information
Foxglove
DL4MFM operating from Nonnenstein DM/NW-063OSM via runtastic.com
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