[TenTec] SOTA rigs

[Barry N1EU]

As currently defined, SOTA=human powered ascent, generally hiking.  If
you guys want to hike mountain summits with 10 pound rigs and 5 pound
batteries, more power to you.  I've been very active in SOTA and
personally, I prefer one pound radios and half pound batteries in my
pack when I'm hiking 5-10 miles and climbing 2000-3000ft.  Just saying
. . .

73, Barry N1EU

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:51 AM, PA5MW, Mark <pa5mw at home.nl> wrote:
> 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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