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  1. New #POTA #WWFF country unlocked: #NorthMacedonia 🇲🇰

    Since #Albania wouldn't give us a #hamradio guest license, we just walked over the border into North Macedonia this evening, visited the Sveti Naum Monastery and did a 2-operator 3-park activation.

    Lots of interference today, there were many stations we couldn't hear. But we walked home with 68 QSOs across all of Europe on 40/20/2 meters.

    MK-0001 MK-0002 MK-0012 Z3FF-0001 Z3FF-0011 Z3FF-0077

    #ParksOnTheAir #FloraFauna

  2. Another successful #POTA #WWFF activation in #Italy #SouthTyrol, despite the mast falling over twice in a row as if I wasn't just a radio amateur, but a complete amateur...

    IT-1298 IFF-1059 "Biotop Fallschauer". What a view.

    159 QSOs in two and a half hours, one of the worst pile-ups I've had so far. Even DX stations from the US, Algeria and Ceuta called in. Wasn't #SpaceWeather supposed to be bad?

    #hamradio #ParksOnTheAir #FloraFauna

  3. Yesterday I climbed on top of the "Vorderer Langenberg" in the #Pfälzerwald (#Palatinate Forest) here in #Germany for a combined #SOTA #POTA #WWFF activation. I didn't expect much traffic around noon, but then ended up having a pile-up so high, I had to apply priorisation techniques to get everybody through 😵‍💫

    I only stopped after 88 QSOs in 90 minutes because I was planning to activate more parks in France later that day.

    #Yaesu FT-891

    #ParksOnTheAir #SummitsOnTheAir #FloraFauna #hamradio

  4. Castle Kräheneck turned out to be the Holy Grail. Not only was this #COTA spot unactivated, but so was Castle Rabeneck right beside it, both castles are also located at four #POTA parks plus one #WWFF park, and spending the night here yielded my first QSOs to #Canada, the #USA and #Argentina!

    125 QSOs on 20m/40m, 11 Park-to-Park (3 trans-continental!)

    #ParksOnTheAir #CastlesOnTheAir #FloraFauna #hamradio