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.

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.