I have fulfilled a long-awaited wish and made my ham radio license in January 2022.
In this weblog I write about my experiences, experiments and projects in amateur radio. The whole thing serves mainly as documentation for myself, but maybe there is some useful information for other OM’s and YL’s.
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The Bungsberg is the highest elevation in the northernmost part of Germany and, accordingly, there is also a SOTA summit there that you can activate. In this article I talk about the successful activation, why higher is not necessarily always better and how I made a contact 872 kilometers away to Scotland with 5 watts QRP on 2m FM.
In August 2022 I was walking on the Alpe-Adria long-distance hiking trail to complete my crossing of the Alps from Salzburg to Trieste. On the way I also passed Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia with 2864 meters, and I really wanted to climb it and activate SOTA!
It happens that I can’t record a log during a SOTA activation, for example because it is too cold or too stormy. In these cases I listen to the voice logs with the iPhone and explain in this article how I do that.
I climbed these two mountains in the Harz several times before I became a licensed ham radio operator. On this Harz hiking weekend in July 2022, of course the light SOTA equipment had to come along to activate the Wurmberg DM/NS-001 and the Brocken DM/SA-001.
On my trekking tours I travel very light and of course the ’luxury luggage’ for SOTA must weigh as little as possible. In this article I describe my equipment in terms of weight and pack size.
I have been running the PeerTube instance http://tube.hamnet.io/ on HAMNET for some time now. In this article I describe how I came to it and what it is exactly.
Actually, I wanted to go to Ham Radio in Friedrichshafen this weekend in June 2022. Instead I climbed three peaks and did SOTA.
In this article I describe my experiences during my first SOTA activation in February 2022 and why I almost didn’t manage to activate the summit.
Mastodon.radio is a Mastodon instance for radio amateurs, which I would like to introduce in this article.