LAFF-0544 / LA-2280 Trolldalen

A second activation today in order to achieve the 44 QSOs needed for WWFF. According to QRZ.com, the conditions were supposed to be good on 17-10 meter, and poor on 30-20 meter. Therefore, I brought with me my MP-1 antenna and my FT-817 ND. I called a lot on 10 and 15 meter, which only produced 3 QSOs on 10, and 2 on 15. Then I QSYed to the "poor" 20 meter, which resulted in 12 QSOs in a few minutes. In total: 17 QSOs from 10 DXCCs.

DXCC: DL, F, HB9, I, OH, OM, SP. UA, UR, W.

LAFF-0544 / LA-2280 Trolldalen

Many months has passed since the last activation, but today I activated Trolldalen, WWFF/POTA: LAFF-0544 / LA-2280 for the first time. A nice and warm spring weather made this activation to a really pleasant one. I decided to test how well my (tr)uSDX behaved in the field. And actually it worked great. It was a really low-budget activation. The rig itself is inexpensive, a dipole antenna is easy to made, and in addition I used a cheap Chinese paddle and a cheap Chinese battery. I was active on 40, 30, and 20 meter. The conditions were overall fine, especially on 30 and 20 meter. The antenna was a linked dipole. The result was 35 QSOs from 12 DXCCs, all on CW.

DXCC: DL, F, HA, HB9, I, OH, OK, OM, ON, S5, SP, YL.

LB/OL-001 Storhaugen

Another short acitvation of Storhaugen. A really nice late-fall weather, and OK HF conditions. The result was 7 QSOs and 4 DXCCs.

DXCC: DL, F, ON, SP.

 

LB/OL-001 Storhaugen

A short activation of the GMA summit LB/OL-001 Storhaugen due to a family hike. OK conditions, and 5 QSOs from 4 DXCCs logged.

DXCC: DL, G, LA, UA0.

 

LA/RL-046 Urdalsnipa

This activation was my first activation of LA/RL-046 Urdalsnipa. I parked at 58.6161 N, 5.9213 E. From the parking I simply followed a road to the summit. For this activation I used a HB-1B and GP for 20 meter. I got 21 QSOs from 10 DXCCs.

DXCC: DL, EA, G, HA, HB9, I, OE, OH, S5, SP.

 

LA/OL-184 Kvitberget

The second summit on the second day was LA/OL-184 Kvitberget. When switching on the radio, I discovered that the power had been 2.5 W for the three previous activations. Thus, I increased it to 5 W. The conditions were still very good, and I had 36 QSOs from 13 DXCCs, And four of them were S2S.

 DXCC: DL, EA, F, G, GI, GW, HA, HB9, OE, ON, PA, S5, YU.