Tenerife trip 2026

For this years' family trip we went to EA8, Tenerife.

Like last year (see the Gran Canaria report here), I promised the XYL it would not be a SOTA trip, but a relaxing holiday.

But after a visit to some very crowded places at Los Christianos and Playa de Las Americas ... she almost begged me : please, can we do another "peaceful and quiet" summit ? YES, OF COURSE !

So in the end, I still managed to activate 5 summits in our 15 day stay on the island. Several of those were also valid for POTA.

Here comes the report.

NOTE: if you're expecting a report about activating the highest peak "El Teide", it's not here. The whole administration has gotten so complicated with permits, reserving a time slot, reserving and paying for a parking spot, the cable car etc etc. , it made me decide it's not worth the trouble.

Like last year, we stayed in three different AirBnb's, to get a feeling of the different climate zones, and use those places as a starting point for some excursions.
1 = Golf del Sur, 2 = Las Caletillas, 3 = Chayofa. 

We had a Dacia Sandero rental car for the whole stay, driving 740 km in 15 days.

My equipment was basically the same as last year, containing the KX3 set and a 9.15m 'random wire' antenna. As a backup, I had a Komunica HF PRO 2 PLUS T telescopic vertical, but I have not used it for SOTA, only one time on the terrace of our second apartment.
Backup rig was my QCX Mini 15/17/20m with a linked 3-band endfed + Fuchs tuner, also not used. I did use the linked antenna one time to do some WSPR tests with my WSPRLite.

OK, time to get on with the summits !

12/5/2026   EA8/TF-019, Rojar - 173m, 1 point -  POTA ES-1732

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14/5/2026    EA8/TF-018, Güímar - 278m, 1 point  - POTA ES-1731

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EA8/TF-008 Taborno 1020m 8p  -  POTA ES-2210+2070

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EA8/TF-013 Montaña de la Atalaya - 778m, 4points

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EA8/TF-014 Roque de Jama - 762m, 4points

NTC QSO Party

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