LA/TR-016 Storhornet

During the RSGB IOTA contest today I activated LA/TR-016 with the IOTA reference EU-033. I Worked 8 stations before I got bored and spotlited myself on 14.330MHz. I worked 18 more stations, most of them regular sota chasers. I was very happy to work Halvard LA1DNA and Hans Petter LA6GOA in the southern part of Norway on 40m.

I walked from the valley between Litlehornet and Storhornet.

Photo: LA/TR-017 Litlehornet and LA/TR-015 Elgen to the left of the trig point

14MHz: 22 QSOs
7MHz: 4 QSOs
DXCCs: DL, G, PA, GM, RA, OM, HA, ON, 9A, LA

LA/TR-022 Kjelhusåsen

This evening XYL and myself went for a walk to LA/TR-022. The WX was lovely with 24°C. I had to QSY well above 14.300 to get away from the contesters in the IOTA contest and I didn't dare to mention that I was on IOTA EU-033 because I had a limited amount of time available and didn't want to get an IOTA pileup.

I also managed to work Aage LA1ENA 2-way QRP on 40m.

14MHz: 5 QSOs
7MHz: 1 QSO
DXCCs: 9A, G, ON, LA

LA/TR-017 Litlehornet

Today XYL and myself decided to climb Litlehornet. When turning on my FT-817 I heared Carolyn GW6WRW calling CQ sota on 14.285MHz and I managed to work her summit to summit. I QSYed to 14.280MHz and worked some familiar callsigns before I suddenly was called by a lot of unfamilar calls. It turned out that G4OBK had posted my IOTA reference (EU-033) on the DX Cluster.
I also tried 40m but didn't get any answers.

Thanks to G4OBK and ON4BB for spots on the DX Cluster.

Photo shows XYL on the summit.

14MHz: 18 QSOs
DXCCs: GW, ON, HB, DL, G, RA, PA, I, OK

Swedish activators in Norway!

From July 7 to July 10 SM0GNS Peder, SM0NJO Magnus and SM5HJZ Jonas will be hiking in Norway. They bring ham radios and will try to activate LA/HM-007 and perhaps also LA/HM-008 and LA/HM-005 if the WX is not to bad.

Activity will be on HF bands and 50MHz.

Good luck guys and enjoy your trip!

More info on this reflector thread: http://www.sotawatch.org/reflector.php?topic=3370#27274

LA/TM-049 Holtankollen

The weather was lovely when XYL and I ascended Holtankollen. The car thermometer showed 27ºc outside when we parked the car. I started at 14.287.5MHz but the QRG was soon taken by some QRO contest station working the King of Spain contest. I QSYed to 14.300MHz and managed to work one HA-station. After this I moved to 7.120MHz and worked 3 G-stations.

We followed the path to the other side of the summit before we headed back towards the car park along the path by the foot of the hill. From the car we spotted a fox bitch with 3 puppies playing on the field by the farm. On another field not far from the airport a deer was enjoying the green grass.

Thanks to HA7UG for the spot on the DX Cluster!

Photo shows XYL on the summit.

14MHz: 1 QSO
7MHz: 3 QSOs
DXCCs: HA, G

LA/TM-051 Nibbenutan

During our weekend at the cabin XYL and I decided to activate LA/TM-051. I chose not to start on 40m today as the WX was rather unstable. I worked 18 stations on 20m in 18 minutes.

Before heading back to the car I checked in to LA1C with the weekly QSTLA network.

14MHz: 18 QSOs
3.7MHz: 1 QSO
DXCCs: ON, G, DL, HA, HB, 9A, S5, SM, LA

LA/TM-065 Høgebrun

I had decided to activate LA/TM-065 for the International QRP Day. I started off on 40m as usual but was only able to work one station. I QSYed to 20m and worked 12 stations. Later I QSYed from band to band and worked 23 stations during the activation. I'm not sure how many QRP stations I worked.

The trig point marker had fallen over during the winter as one of the guy wires were broken. I managed to mend it but decided not to use the marker as antenna support.

I signed the sota guest book sheet under the large stone before heading home. The sheet was placed there by Aage LA1ENA last year.

On my way back to the car I spotted a lynx! That's not too common!

Thanks to OK1HCG and GW7AAV for spots on sotawatch.

7MHz: 5 QSOs
14MHz: 18 QSOs
DXCCs: OK, HA, G, EI, ON, GW, MM, LA, SP, F, HB

Blogentry is backdated