Today WX was very good – not too hot and always a light wind. Unfortunately propagation was not the best… SNL Franz was on another SOTA walk too and we were up on each summit on exactly the same time. 1st. QSO was therefore SOTA to SOTA on 2m FM.

With heights of 1.942 and 2.044 m both summits brought 8 points to the activator log. We stood up very early to face with the very hot WX. I was quite surprised that many well-known stations came back to my call so quickly…

… the hardest “8 Points Summit” I ever achieved. Really really very steep way up and due to WX (over 30 degrees centigrade) very exhausting. Starting at 07:00 we climbed up the altitude difference of 1.000 meters in exactly 2 hours.

Today WX was very hot but we (my YL and me) decided to climb a little hill called Sonnkogel (1.727m, 6 Points). Due to we drove up by car quite far the climb up time was only abt. 1 hour and 15 minutes. After setting up the Buddistick I started calling CQ SOTA with the FT-817…