LA/TM-013 Vestre Vealøs

Hard walk in the snow to the summit. I was offered a ride with a cute girl on snowmobile but turned the offer down with the excuse that I needed the physical activity!

7MHz: 15 QSOs
5MHz: 2 QSOs
144MHz: 1 QSO

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LA/TM-013 Vestre Vealøs

In England I purchased a SB270 SOTA beam from Richard G3CWI and I used it to activate the Cloud. Saturday the tropo forecast looked promising so I decided to give it a try from Vealøs. I parked by the gate and walked the road almost to the summit. I found a suitable spot to erect the antenna 14 meters of elevation bellow the summit.

The only SSB station I could hear was OK1MAC but I heard some stations on cw. I tried to call the OK station but he was not able to hear me. At the end I worked the usual local guys on 2m fm. Before heading home I walked to the summit and signed the book. I'm looking forward to the 2m NRAU Activity Contest next Tuesday.

144MHz: 4 QSOs
DXCCs: LA

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LA/TM-013 Vestre Vealøs

Our local radio club, Grenlandgruppen av NRRL, arranged a trip to Vestre Vealøs to look after our repeater QTH. Aage LA1ENA and I decided to activate the summit even though both of us had activated it already this year.

We also managed to get Torkel LA9ZMA to activate his first summit! Congratulations! Aage and I started the descent early to get out of the AZ to give Torkel the two last contacts he needed to qualify the summit.

We all worked Kjell LA1KHA who was activating LA/TM-049.

The conditions on HF were rather poor and both Aage and I only managed to get a few contacts.

Photo: Aage LA1ENA (left) and Torkel LA9ZMA (right)

14MHz: 2 QSOs
144MHz: 1 QSO
DXCCs: S5, G, LA
S2S: LA1KHA/P on LA/TM-049

LA/TM-013 Vestre Vealøs

Due to reports on the Internet on Sporadic-E openings on 10m I decided to join the NAC28 (NRAU Activity Contest on 10m) from Vestre Vealøs. I scanned the band for a while but could only hear two local stations.

I QSYed to 20m and worked one OE station. On 40m I worked 9 stations but the activation suffered from a lot of QSB. I used the PAC-12 antenna with coils for the different bands but had a little problem getting the SWR down on 10m. I fixed this by changing the radial kit.

I walked from the gate at Skifjell because I expected to return in the dark. The wind on the summit was rather heavy.

I almost stepped on a badger on my way home!

14MHz: 1 qso
7MHZ: 9 qsos
145MHz: 2 qsos
DXCCs: OE, HA, G, DL, GW, LA

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LA/TM-013 Vestre Vealøs

Sissel, my XYL joined me on my trip to Vestre Vealøs today. We walked the path from the old ski jump. At the summit it was about -5° and very windy. I had alerted for 14MHz and 7MHz but chose to only work 40m due to the wind. After 13 contacts I aborted the activation even though I heard more chasers calling. Sorry to those who didn't manage to work me.

On our way back we stopped for a break. We lit a fire and had hot dogs for lunch!

7MHz: 13 qsos

DXCCs: G, DL, ON, HB9, OK, GM