[TenTec] SOTA rigs

[Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP]

If you   s t r e t c h   that first dit in the "h", it becomes a dah  and
the "h" becomes a "b".  Biking.  Then the sport is much more appealing to
me!

QUESTION:  is it mandatory to have to hike to the mountain top?  Or, if you
find a mountain top you can drive to, does that qualify as a summit?

I think at my age, I'll stick to IOTA, even if I have to hike a ways.

73
Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Barry N1EU
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:03 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] SOTA rigs

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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