Skalisko OM/KE-023 VHF SOTA Activation 9/2021

This was SOTA activation on 2 band. Maybe one of the last or the last "VHF only" activation. I made only 4 QSOs. I was trying really hard and calling many CQs on 145.500, 145.525, 145.550, 145.575. Only 4 stations answered. I used handheld transceiver Yaesu FT70 with 1/2 wave telescopic antenna Diamond RH-770. 

The weather was perfect. No wind, pleasantly warm day and beautiful nature. Bears occur in this mountain range, but luckily I haven't met any. It took me almost three hours to the mountain top and one and half hour back to the car.

Smrekovica OM/PO-018 HF SOTA Activation 9/2021

Another SOTA activation after half a year break. This time on HF 20m. I was not active in SOTA on HF for exactly two years. Shame on me. These days I'm trying to reduce the weight of my SOTA equipment to minimum. I would like to be more active in the SOTA program again and especially on HF.

Zádielska tiesňava 4/2021

About two-hour 6 km hike to the western edge of the gorge with beautiful views. The first relaxing part through the valley. The second part with a quite steep ascent to the plain above the gorge. The most difficult is about 800m long part with 200m altitude ascent:

The weather was pleasant spring but the sun's rays are already intensifying so my head without a cap has tanned. I made couple contacts on PMR 446 MHz with my friend who was located on the nearest castle Turna just 3 km away and with another one on the summit "Jeleni vrch" - 947m asl) about 6 km to the north. Another nice 44 km contact was made on 145 MHz.

view from the place where I was transmitting and stayed for about 3 hours..

view from the same place to another direction..

in the forest on the plain..

northern parts of the hills still with snow..

CQ WW RTTY DX Contest 2020

Skárošská vyhliadka 4/2021

non-SOTA summit Skárošská vyhliadka 795m asl located 20 km south-east from QTH Košice

I stayed there for 2 hrs even though it was very windy and made few contacts on 2m and 70cm.

VHF SOTA OM/KE-017 Veľký Milič

 

VHF SOTA OM/KE-032 Bradlo 03/2021

 

VHF SOTA OM/KE-016 Mošník 03/2021

 

WAS - Worked All States

 Worked & Confirmed All States

Confirmed via eQSL and LoTW

Band: mixed, Mode: mixed

VHF SOTA OM/KE-034 Suchý vrch 3/2021

 

VHF SOTA HA/EM-019 Szurok-hegy 3/2021

 

VHF SOTA OM/ZA-003 Baranec 11/2020

 

Contact with Hawaii

I made QSO with Arch AH6U from Maui, Hawai in FT8 mode on 20m band.

I was very pleased with this contact.

Spring walk 4/2020

I took a short spring walk just 40km away from my base location and experienced a nice view of the valley at sunset. Made of course a few local contacts.

OM8KT SOTA VHF Activation OM/KE-008, 11/2019

SOTA (Summits On the Air) Activation

of OM/KE-008 Bukovec (1127m ASL, KN08IU)

OM8KT SOTA VHF Activation OM/KE-016, 12/2019

SOTA (Summits On the Air) Activation

of OM/KE-016 Mosnik (911m ASL, KN08ST)

OM8KT SOTA VHF Activation OM/KE-017, 12/2019

SOTA (Summits On the Air) Activation

of OM/KE-017 Velky Milic (900m ASL, KN08RN)

5el VHF Yagi

OM8KT SOTA HF Activation OM/KE-002, 9/2019

SOTA (Summits On the Air) Activation

of OM/KE-002 Babina (1278m ASL, KN08FT)

OM8KT SOTA HF Activation OM/KE-015, 5/2019

SOTA (Summits On the Air) Activation

of OM/KE-015 Folkmarska skala (915m ASL, KN08MT)

1.5.2019 OMFF-0604 Slanecky castle

WWFF (World Wide Flora and Fauna) Activation

of OMFF-0604 Slansky hradny vrch

by Martin OM8KT in May 2019

Activation was done in the morning between 07:30-08:15 UTC
You can see Slanecky castle ruins on the top of hill..

I made 75 QSOs on 40m band in 45 minutes

Yaesu FT-891, 40m inv. V dipole 10m abv gnd, 100W