ON7DQ Friedrichshafen 2025 - Day 9

Trip from Friedrichshafen to Karlsruhe, 297 km

Another hot day was promised!

After I loaded all my stuff from the apartment into my car, I was already sweating like hell, despite it was "only" 24 °C. I left at 09:10 for my first summit.

DM/BW-064, Heersberg - 964m, 10 points

After a 110 km ride through heavy traffic, I arrived at the parking spot at 10:55.
The parking spot is at pos 48.237385, 8.932003, in the village of Burgfelden.

Lots of space, and some trees to let you park in the shade, the temperature was already 27°C.

The walk to a spot in the AZ takes only 15 minutes. I used the same location as suggested by Phil, G4OBK. Only difference ... I couldn't use the nice table to operate, it was simply too hot.

So I found some shade at the small building nearby.

17 QSO's in the log with 5 S2S.

Mystery object

Near the benches and table, I found this strange object. Anyone know what it is ?
Drone launcher, UFO landing platform, SOTA antenna mount ... ?

After the activation, I had a quick picnic near my car, then it was time to start driving to ...

DM/BW-147, Gespaltener Fels - 1000m, 10 points 

This summit is just 20 km to the West from Heersberg.
Being there on a Monday, I could drive up to the parking spot at pos 48.218898, 8.844863, marked on the maps as "Grillplatz".
I'm sure the good shepard would watch over my car ... so I started walking.

The first part is in the woods, but the last part goes over an open grass field, so take sun protection and enough water.
After 30 minutes I reached the summit, and found an old bench to use as an operating spot.

Again , I made 17 QSO's here, with 3 S2S.this time.

After this, it was a 100 km ride to the next one, and then another 66 to my AirBnb in Hagenbach near Karlsruhe. So I better got going ...

DM/BW-054, Hohloh - 984m, 10 points

This is an easy, almost drive up summit.
Best parking is Parking C , at pos 48.707374, 8.427898, I arrived there at 16:40.
Again, being late on a Monday afternoon, the parking was almost deserted, it may be different in a weekend. From there it's only a straight 800m walk with 45m ascent.

At the summit is a hut, which I used to set up my station, the antenna was outside the hut of course.

Several people came by to climb the tower, but nobody paid attention to my operation. 

Here my cosy indoor shack ...

I had to hurry a little, so made it a short activation. In just 15 minutes I had 13 QSO' s in the log, and just 1 S2S, still a good result.

 I left the parking at 17:30 local time, got me some food in a supermarket, and arrived at my AirBnb at  19:00. Temperature had risen to 35°C ... good that I still had that fan 😄

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