@hamchallenge #HC16S #pota

While tuning an antenna, I did "hunt" accidentally a POTA activation IE-0127 in Ireland. Greetings to Eire.

After that I registered myself to the POTA.app and will prepare my own activation for HC29S.

@hamchallenge The condx were terrible and I really, really hoped for a 6m qso, but nothing happened. I did hear F4JRC, about 2000 km away, on the magic band #HC28S.

Contacting other xOTA stations wasn't as easy as the usual P2P or P2S, but I did get ~15 in the log, not counting multiple parks and multiple ops setups. #HC16S

I even had some CW qsos with other hams with whom I share this instance #HC38S, but I couldn't find someone for #HC30 #hamchallenge

Let's try a 10fer for @hamchallenge :  

I went out today for POTA RO-0109 #HC29S in front of this communist mammoth #HC13S, operated all day on 36Ah #HC36S (ha!). I worked one DX, the ITU HQ, out of today's DXpeds PJ4M, VP8DPD and V73MT #HC07S, 14 DXCCs #HC37s, plus all xOTA #HC16S I heard. I had 20 contacts on CW #HC38S including @YO3AX and @G0TRT. I even heard F4JRC on 6m #HC28S. I fixed my audio card #HC45S and used the antenna I built with the YL #HC33S.

Details follow.

I also worked four other #SOTA summits and five other #POTA parks.

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@hamchallenge #HC16S made contact with WI2X from NY on CW. The bands are still inexplicably terrible for supposedly good conditions. I was spinning and grinning for an hour when that station suddenly burst in loud and clear.

Now chasing MN. Which fades in and out, barely audible.

I'm hearing zilch on SSB. This is why I like morse. It works when voice doesn't.