ON7DQ Friedrichshafen 2022 - Day 9

From Friedrichshafen to Heidelberg

A lot of driving today, but still time to activate one summit along the road.

DM/BW-484, Bussen - 767m, 8 points

This is a very nice summit. There is a large free parking here : 48.160800, 9.556214, in the village of Uttenweiler. From the parking it's a short walk, about 150m, but it is rather steep (yellow line). 

You can also go to the church (blue line), then you have some stairs, and walk to the summit from there. There are free toilets in the building near the church, the toilets at the parking were closed that day.

First we climbed the tower (the Burgruine Bussen), where you have a nice view of the area.

From the tower I made already two S2S contacts on VHF with Sylvia DL/OE5YYN/P on DL/AL-271 (distance 85 km) and Reinhard OE7RGF/P, who was on OE/TI-112. 

WOW! What a great DX of about 200 km, using only 5W, and a Chinese telescopic 5/8 λ whip.

In front of the tower is a large area with picknick benches, where I set up my station for HF.

From this position, I had three more VHF S2S contacts (DO4TE/P, OE/HB9EVF/P and OE/IW3AGO/P, another DX with 140 km!). 

Total number of contacts was 30 and this included 12 S2S QSO's, a great catch !

The rest of the day was spent on the motorways and in traffic jams ... only to arrive a bit late in our BnB near Heidelberg.

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