[TenTec] SOTA rigs

[PA5MW, Mark]

Wow.
Great pictures and even greater setup!

Thanks for sharing.
73 Mark, PA5MW

On 17-4-2013 9:25, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
> 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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