This day brought us from Eisingen to Kirchheim am Ries (near Bopfingen).
This is the APRS track.
We continued our trip along the Romantische Straße, and picked three interesting visits. I won't give a detailed report of those visits, here just a few pictures to give you an idea ...
Tauberbischofsheim
Weikersheim
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
As you can see, a very busy place !
There is also a large store called Käte Wohlfart Weihnachtsdorf, it's chockful with Christmas decoration, cuckoo clocks and what not ... very funny to visit this store in the middle of summer !
OK, enough tourism ... let's get back to business, SOTA/POTA time !
DM/BW-131, Ipf - 668m, 6 points
POTA DE-0523 Geopark Ries UNESCO Geopark
This summit is near the city of Bopfingen, and is located in the "Geopark Ries".
This "Ries" is a large meteorite crater ... it has wiped out an area of 22 km diameter, some 15 million years ago. See more info here
Parking for the summit is near the open air museum Keltenwelt, pos 48.869537, 10.366872
(look for 'Wanderparkplatz am Ipf' on a map). From there it is a 20 minute walk to the summit.
(look for 'Wanderparkplatz am Ipf' on a map). From there it is a 20 minute walk to the summit.
The summit itself is a large flat grass field. You could easily setup a 160m dipole here ;-)
Since there was a slight drizzle, I kept the activation short. Only 16 QSO's with still 5 S2S, and hey ... EA8 was my first DX during this trip ! Also 8 of the QSO's were made on 10m, good for the 10m Challenge.
More to come ... continue reading, go to DAY 5
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