I have received wire antenna for CB 27 MHz today. It is made by Skipper from Kittsee in Austria. It is the end fed tuned antenna lambda 0,625 with coil. The length is 6,94m. The antenna is very well made, tuned and tested. Look at pmr-dx.cz for some more info (in slovak language) and photos. Another article about the antenna used on the summit is here.
I'm looking forward to the first portable with it.
Thank you Skipper :)
It took me 2 hours to reach the summit.
Equipment used: Yaesu FT-891 | 7 Ah LiFePO4 battery | 20m EFHW for 40-10m @2-4m abv gnd | 20W | Heil-6 Proset + hand PTT
This summit was not activated for almost 9 years. It was activated for the last time in March 2013 by me and Ivan OM0AM and Peter OM8AKX. We were active on 80, 40, 20 and 2m that time and made 42 contacts together.
Even though this SOTA is very close to my base location (25 km by car), this summit area is not very tourist attractive.
There are no marked hiking trails leading to the mountain top..
The forest looks the same everywhere and the orientation is a little bit difficult to maintain the correct heading to the mountain top.
The summit consists of a main and two secondary summits. The SOTA summit is marked as that south summit. I don't know why..
There is not open panorama view from the top but the forest is sparse here so some little view to the distance is visible..
I made 14 contacts on 20m in 6 minutes including 2x S2S. There was no space for me on 40m because of contest, so I tried several CQs on 15m with no answer. The band seemed to be little bit opened as I could copy some stations on other 15m frequencies.
Equipment used: Yaesu FT-891 | 7 Ah LiFePO4 battery | EFHW 40-10 @3m abv gnd | 20W