Last Monday I had a meting at the Wicklow Mountains National Park office, and with Trooperstown so close I thought it would be a shame not to go up and do an activation. It’s a 4point summit, EI/IE-035. Coillte provide a car park just before the bridge over the Inchavore River (T 160 970), but […]
While in Mayo last week I decided I’d take a few hours to try a SOTA activation. There are plenty of summits to choose from, 8 around Achill and another 25 between the Nephin range and Ceide Fields. Robert Lloyd Praeger in 1937 wrote that “the Nephinbeg range of mountains is I think the very loneliest
I thought I’d try taking part in the IRTS 40m counties contest from a SOTA summit. My location and antenna at home isn’t great, so I figured that since it was a nice day that operating with only 5W on a summit would still be better than operating at home! The band was pretty poor
Listening to the ISS portion of a direct contact via F8KGY with students from Lycée Hélène Boucher, Thionville, France on Thu 2017-04-27 with astronaut Thomas Pesquet, KG5FYG. Sorry about the wind noise! Equipment used: Antenna: Arrow II Antenna Radio: Yaesu FT-817ND [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCVi41OGVQ[/embedyt]