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| October 7 · Issue #36 · View online |
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Winter is quickly approaching and that means more hiking and amateur radio. Lots to share in this month’s newsletter: I return from my Iceland SOTA trip and am now and heading to VT to section hike the Long Trail.
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- My Complete Guide to Traveling & Hiking in Iceland
- Using natural navigation techniques in Iceland
- Upcoming Trip: Long Trail Section Hike (VT) & Maine
- KB1HQS Trip Reports
- QSL Mail Call
- Cool Ham Stuff
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Click below to view the different sections:
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My Complete Guide to Traveling & Hiking in Iceland
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Laugavegur trail
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A cold river crossing
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Hiking between the glaciers
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Hjörleifshöfði (TF/SL-216), Iceland (SOTA)
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Iceland Academy | How to avoid hot tub awkwardness
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Along with ultralight backpacking and amateur radio, I am now writing/vloging about my other hobby: navigation (land, natural & celestial). While in Iceland I used several natural navigation techniques to help orient myself while hiking.
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I’m still working on activating a SOTA summit in every state in the US that has one. As far as the NE, I still have Connecticut to activate. I plan on activating Talcott Mountain (W1/MR-001) this Friday, 10/8/21. The following two days I will travel through MA and southern VT activating several other SOTA sites. Keep an eye on the clusters for my call sign.
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Pico Mountain in VT
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As you may recall, I did a 110 mile hike of the Long Trail back in the summer of 2020. It was full of mud, heat, crazy people and getting my stuck bear bag out of trees.
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2020: Long Trail_Day 1 Sleeping with the Beavers
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I am heading back up to VT next week to continue the hike and see how many new miles I can complete in 5 days. I will start where I stopped in 2020 in Rutland, VT and head north. There is a massive amount of SOTA summits along the way that I plan on activating, time permitting.
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2021 LT Fall Section Hike - CalTopo
My custom CalTopo Map for the LT: 2021 LT Fall Section Hike
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That's a lot of SOTA summits dude
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Since temperatures can range from 85 degrees to below freezing, I will be packing heavy with all my winter gear. Hopefully the weather holds out and I get some nice moderate temperatures with fall foliage. Fortunately the summit elevations are usually under 4k which helps. As far as gear, I will carry my Mountain Topper with Packtenna End Fed antenna and a VHF HT for 2m simplex. Battery will be a RavPower PD battery bank that can run my radio and charge both my cell phone and InReach. No ham radio go kits, solar power or other useless crap. Keep it simple; keep it light and use what works.
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Thanks goes to Steve, WG0AT for the super cool custom CW paddle.
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A list of my gear for my 2021 LT Section hike
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Want to follow my path in real time?
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Hjörleifshöfði (TF/SL-216), Iceland | KB1HQS
Hjörleifshöfði, Iceland (TF/SL-216) is a small summit located in the southern part of Iceland. The summit is an easy hike and offers amazing views when the weather cooperates. The summit is bare requiring activators to get creative in getting antennas in the air.
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SOTA Power Duo
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🛰️ See A Satellite Tonight 🛰️
Satellites 🛰️ are visible in the night sky, no telescope required, if you know where to look. Find out here.
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SDRUno 1.41 Released: Scheduler and ADS-B Plugins Added
Last week SDRplay released version 1.41 of their SDRUno software platform. SDRuno is the official software for the SDRplay line of low cost software defined radio devices. The main new feature is the addition of the scheduler facility which allows users to easily schedule recordings. This is great if for example you wish to automatically record a shortwave programs playing overnight. SDRuno V1.41 was fully released today. It includes the much requested full scheduler facility which allows you to set up numerous recording events for your RSP. As well as providing all the expected calendar options (time of day, date,
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Determining SOTA Activation Zones in Google Earth – VK2GOM Ham Radio & SOTA Blog
The Flood Tool Google Earth is a remarkable resource. It’s free, for starters! Google Earth is embedded with altitude data. As such, a programmer called Bernard Sterzback in Germany has come up with a clever .kmz extension file that can be installed, and used to access that embedded altitude data to show ‘flood’ maps, in…
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