Activations

Hi Craig, I have thanked you on a previous post for todays Contact, you were first in the log!! on 2m ssb!! Brilliant, managed to qualify on 2m ssb, 

Victor I gave you a few shouts pointing my beam in you direction, but heard nothing, maybe next time??

Happy with 8 in the log, including one on 70MHz!

cheers Tony

Hi Tony,

Congratulations on a great activation.  


I can only offer my profuse and humblest of apologies for today mate as I have to admit I haven't been on air due to some technical hitches. It's only now noticing your post that I've looked up at the shack calendar with your SOTA clearly marked. We may not have made it through anyway and I can only kindly thank you for having a go.

I wish you all the best mate and with everything you do. Well done again.


My very best,
Victor

Hi Tony and great to make the contact today on 2m ssb , would be good if more SOTA activations used this mode 

Pleased to hear you comfortably qualified the summit 


Hope to catch you again in the near future 


Cheers N beers 

Craig 73

Will be doing my first SOTA of the year tomorrow 5/1/2022 

G / NP -017 Fountains fell 

ETA 09-30 UTC  +/- 30 mins 

40 and 20m SSB and 2m fm  Hope to catch a few CT members 

Craig 2E0VRX

Wish you all the best for your activation Craig.  


I'll have a listen out for you and hopefully fingers crossed catch you on HF.

Good luck.

I also wish you good luck Craig. It looks like you will have a fine but cold day.. my fingers are ice cold and I haven't ventured out yet.

Sorry I will not be able to try for you today as will be in our faraday cage of a work building for most of it. Hopefully I will be able to catch you again on another activation.

Last note, and might be too late for you this time, but I noticed the Station Master Cloud logging platform released an Activations feature you or others might like to try in the future:
https://station-master.online/activations

Hope you had a good activation Craig and that it wasn't too cold for you.  
(Seems we have some colder weather approaching so you might have had the best day.)

Try as I might it was all wall to wall Continental 'CQ Competition' stuff my way despite slowly tuning around the dial. I had the G0XBU Jodrell bank websdr open on 2m but an attempt to open a second window saw my old PC lagging. All my best efforts failed to pick you up unfortunately.

Sorry to have missed you but hope you had a good time nonetheless.


All the best,
Victor

Cheers Neal and Victor 

Turned out to be a most enjoyable SOTA with absolute perfect WX and reasonable band conditions 

27 in the log on 2m FM 
7 itl  on 20m SSB 
5 itl on 40m SSB 

2 - S2S summit to summit contacts 






Many thanks to all who called in and made the log 

Craig 2E0VRX

Well done Craig and stunning views you had.  
(Bit too cold for my bones!)

Lol it was a bit nippy Victor , absolutely essential having the right kit on

One more pic 

Ha! Ha! You Beauty. Do love that radio!

I suppose compared to a howling wind and horizontal sheet rain it was an ideal day.


Thanks for sharing with us all Craig, much appreciated mate.

Really pleased for you Craig that your activation was successful, and those pictures are gorgeous. I would loved to have traded places with you for the day.