Christmas day VHF SOTA Activation of Kojsovska hola OM/KE-004

This was almost 3-hour VHF QRO portable from SOTA summit OM/KE-004 on December 24, 2022.

Equipment used: Yaesu FT-2980, power 75W (measured on the external SWR/W meter), 20m Ultraflex 7 coax cable, Diamond NR22L omni antenna on 4m fiberglass mast.

It was difficult to understand weaker signals because of the constant S2 noise on the summit from other electronic devices. Even S4 signals were still effected by that. I heard weaker S2-S3 signals several times but it was not possible to make contact with them. Yagi antenna would possibly solve this.

38 contacts in the log from 08:14 to 10:59  UTC. ODX SP7JS KO00IL 188 km

approaching the mountaintop in the morning..

my base location (Kosice) is 20 km in this direaction but in the fog..

Thank you all for contacts and have a nice Christmas !