Easy going...

I spent two days on the roads in Baden Württemberg again. I was able to manage two quick activations in the evenings. The both summits are easy to reach and do have a kind of charm, e.g. the Teck has an old castle with a restaurant on the top. Just take a look at these links:

• DM/BW-074 (Hohenkarpfen), 10 points, 11 QSO on 30&40m
• DM/BW-695 (Teck), 8 points, 32 QSO on 40m

 HAMing on the Teck is family friendly.

I could hardly wait to test my new dipole antenna I designed especially for wooded hills. This low hanging 2x10m long dipole worked quite impressive! So, now my portable ultra light antenna can be configured as a GP, L or inverted V antenna depending on summit top. HAMing on the Hohenkarpfen I recognized that the demand for QSOs was exceptionally low, later I got a message that the SOTAwatch was off-line for a while and many chasers were missing my signal even though I was CQing at 7031.5MHz. Long live SOTAwatch!