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LA1T 10m net – pedestrian portable
Tried something different for the LA1T 10m net. Attached a telescopic CB antenna to my X6100 and went “pedestrian portable” from Signalen (145 meters above sea level). Running 5W into the ~1m long antenna sitting at eye-level was of course quite different from my normal setup running 100W into a sleeve dipole up a 10m…
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SOTA: LA/AH-007 – Varden, Håøya
First time activating an island today. Håøya sits at the narrowest point in the Oslo fjord, and is just a 15 minutes ferry ride from Drøbak. The summit rests at 231m which sounded like a proverbial “walk in the park”. What I forgot to consider is that in the case of an island, you literally…
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SOTA: LA/BU-032 Stikkvannskollen
Nice trip up Stikkvannskollen with its 361 meters above sea level. Well established tracks and the best signage I’ve come across on a SOTA trip so far! Didn’t stop yours truly from making a wrong turn on the way down though; causing an equal mix of annoyance and pride in my companion, who had suggested the…
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SOTA: LA/TM-013 – Vestre Vealøs
Catching up on documenting my SOTA adventures. Walked up Vestre Vealøs on a nice and sunny last of August. Parked the car at Store Skifjell (59.211, 9.716) and followed the gravel road all the way to the top; a total of a little less then 360m elevation and a round trip of about 9km. Very…
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LA1T NVIS portable activity
Last Sunday of the month and time for portable NVIS with my local club, LA1T here in Tønsberg. Nice change of pace to focus on getting as much of the energy as possible straight up, as opposed to parallel to the ground like most of us normally do! I’ve had mixed experiences running NVIS from…
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SOTA: LA/TM-001 Gaustatoppen
Oscar and I have been walking up this mountain every summer for the past five or six years now, continuously improving our time. So I was expecting this to be an easy ascent, and hoping for a slight improvement on last years 1 hour 45 minutes. No such luck; seems two and a half years…