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70cms News
This month’s “hot” news is the effect that the UHF Activity Day on Sunday 27th March had on 70cms activity in the UK. The event was generally well supported and doubled the number of activators in the 2011 table for both England and Wales and there was a truly magnificent seven-fold increase in Scotland. The latter activity has been much reported in the account by Andy MM0FMF on the SOTAwatch reflector. Generally the idea was not taken up across Europe, but several activators did turn out on Sunday 27th March to put 70cms on the air.
I think the UHF Activity Day has shown many what can be achieved on the band. However, despite all the advantages that 70cms can offer in terms of small antennas and its relatively easy access through modern multiband multimode rigs, the band continues to be seen as an add-on. I am not suggesting that it should become a priority band over, say 2m, but there are clearly many summits where its use as the prime activation band is valid. Of course the opposite is true – there are clearly summits where the use of 70cms is inappropriate due to topography, but if more activators would give the band a try as a prime operating band wherever and whenever they can, hopefully there will be an increase in the use of the band generally. I don’t know the reason why Slovenia should stand out above all other countries. Perhaps someone who has had experience operating 70cms in both Slovenia and other countries might be able to shed light on the reason. I for one would like to hear of their experiences.
I have decided to revise my reporting this month by omitting the details of how many QSOs have been made from the summits. I have come to the conclusion that making a single contact from a particular summit may be considerably harder to achieve than 20 from another and since I cannot know the summits and their attributes, I feel it may be inappropriate to mention QSO details. The database is free to all to peruse if readers want to know the details of a particular activation. If anyone holds a view on this, particularly as to whether this detracts from the report, please let me know.
Slovenia
Activity in Slovenia continues to be extremely strong, with Marijan S52TC storming the summits to add a further 28 to his tally during March alone. Some might ask whether he has been at home at all during the month. Congratulations to Marijan for attaining Mountain Goat and well done on making contacts on 70cms from all of the 28 summits activated – a brilliant achievement!
Several others have been very active, with Darko S57AX and Marko S57MS adding 10 summits to their 2011 totals and Bojan S56LXN another 8 to his. On the other hand, several regular activators did not get out onto the summits at all.
Again this month there were several new activators on the band. There were 4 new entries into the SOTA database, with the total activators recording contacts now having risen from 39 to 43. One of the new entrants to the 2011 70cms table is Stane S56SNR who activated Kojca S5/CP-007 on 8th March. Zlatko S51TZ made an entry by using 70cms from Stolpnik S5/PK-012 on 13th March. On 26th March the Lesce Club callsign S59UAR was used from the double summit of Bärentaler Kotschna OE/KT-103 / Struška Kocna (Veliki vrh) S5/KA-009 and the fourth new entrant was Franci S57MZO who activated Porezen S5/CP-002 the same day.
Once again I searched the database this month for those less activated summits. I don’t know whether this article is well read in Slovenia, but a number of activators appear to have heeded my words and activated summits that I have not reported on before. So, this month’s selection of the less-well activated summits (again my selection) region by region is as follows -
BI:
Just one activation in this region included contacts on 70cms –
Mrzlica S5/BI-004 - S57AX,13th March
BR:
Just two activations in this region included contacts on 70cms –
Veliki Snežnik S5/BR-001 - S57PNX, 6th March
Razsušica (Glavicorka) S5/BR-010– S57MS, 26th March
CP:
23 activations in this region included contacts on 70cms –
some of those less frequently activated on 70cms –
Partizanski vrh (Kotlic) S5/CP-004 - S52TC, 21st March
Vancovec S5/CP-008– S56LXN 11th March
Mohor S5/CP-019– S57AX, 6th March
Štedel vrh S5/CP-037– S52TC, 10th March
GS:
No activations in this region included contacts on 70cms. It is a shame that Zlatko S51TZ did
not manage any contacts on the band from Maceljska gora S5/GS-005 when he activated it on 6th March.
JA:
8 activations in this region included contacts on 70cms –
some of those less frequently activated on 70cms –
Jerebikovec S5/JA-036– S52TC, 29th March
Kravja Crna gora S5/JA-067– S52TC, 5th March
Kokošinjca (vrh 1401) S5/JA-068– S52TC, 7th March
Planski vrh S5/JA-069– S52TC, 29th March
KA:
11 activations in this region included contacts on 70cms -
some of those less frequently activated on 70cms –
Kepa S5/KA-003– S52TC, 31st March
Struška Kocna (Veliki vrh) S5/KA-009– S57AX, 5th March
Stegovnik S5/KA-019– S52TC, 20th March
Pristovnikova planina S5/KA-020– S52TC, 23rd March
Petelinjek S5/KA-025– S52TC, 25th March
KS:
8 activations in this region included contacts on 70cms –
some of those less frequently activated on 70cms –
Strojna S5/KS-039– S56LXN, 5th March
Špilk S5/KS-043– S56LXN, 27th March
Skorno S5/KS-062– S51JS and S51TS, 5th March
Lomek S5/KS-065– S56LXN, 26th March
PK:
3 activations in this region included contacts on 70cms –
Stolpnik S5/PK-012– S51TZ, 13th March
Gora S5/PK-043– S57TI and S55TR, 20th March
RG:
7 activations in this region included contacts on 70cms –
all worth a mention –
Debeli vrh S5/RG-002– S57MS, 20th March
Trdinov vrh S5/RG-006– S57MS, 6th March and S57D, 20th March
Mošnjevec S5/RG-007 – S57MS, 20th March
Velika Slivnica S5/RG-009– S57PZ and S53JP, 20th March
Brinoh S5/RG-052 – S57MS, 12th March
TK:
11 activations in this region included contacts on 70cms –
some of those less frequently activated on 70cms –
Praprot S5/TK-006– S57MS, 5th March
Bevkov vrh S5/TK-020– S57AX and S57AJJ, 7th March, S57MS, 10th March, S56LCH, 20th March, S57PZ and S53JP, 25th March and S52TC, 30th March
Marutnik S5/TK-024– S56LCH, 18th March
Jelenk S5/TK-035– S57AX, 11th March
To put names to calls not already mentioned (you all know who you are anyway) – Darko S57AX, Mitja S57PNX, Marko S57MS, Bojan S56LXN, Jaka S51JS, Toni S51TS, Ivan S57TI, Rozalija S55TR, Milos S57D, Zvone S57PZ, Jure S53JP, Jurij S57AJJ and Matej S56LCH.
So I guess you all now rush off to S5/GS and make lots of contacts on 70cms………
Signing off
Apologies for the late report this month. I am finding it hard to find time to get all the data sorted out and formulated into a decent report in my free time which seems to be getting shorter and shorter. I would very much like to have the time to do some investigation into how the band has developed over the past two years or so that I have been running these reports, but I just don’t have the time. Ideas of bar charts and graphs go around in my head, but so far they have stayed there.
As you see, no photographs this month. Nothing was sent to me and my own activations were from misty grey summits, so nothing of interest to show – you’ve all seen my dual band beam anyway!
So once again my best wishes to all 70cms activators. Keep safe out on the hills and mountains. I wish to all safe travel to and from the summits.
73
Gerald G4OIG
73, Miloš S57D