Well long before there was a sport called "SOTA", I was operating SOTA.
But my operations weren't for a few hours, they were for days.
Like these two, on top of La Rabassa in the Pyrenees mountains (over 2000
meters high):
1975: C31IL (Andorra) / see:
http://www.dj0ip.de/my-expeditions/andorra-1975/
1979: C31SE (Andorra) / see:
http://www.dj0ip.de/my-expeditions/andorra-1979/
Read the story of how to run for 10 days off of batteries at 6,600 feet
height.
On the first trip we used a SWAN SS-100 (50w out).
It was the first transistorized rig I had ever seen with this much power.
I only had an Argonaut 505 at the time. The Triton was available but we
hadn't heard of it yet here in Germany.
I was the one on the motorbike. Sigi, NV7E (now 5Z4EE) was the one with the
VW bus.
On the second trip in 1979 I had the original OMNI (Analog), and my Argonaut
509 with 405 amp as backup.
I also had hair. Lots of it.
Side Note: as you'll see in one of the pictures of the 1975 expedition, I
was already a big fan of Wire Beam antennas, 30 years before I joined
Spiderbeam!
73
Rick, DJ0IP
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