SOTA OK/OL-008

Date: 27.2.2011 Sunday
Summit: OK/OL-008

Černá stráň (Black hillside)
Asl:  1236m

Points: 10

Summary:

conveyance: train
start: Letohrad railway station 6:10z  (7:10 CET)

beginning of the hike:

railway station Branna 8:22z  600m asl

special equipment:
snowshoes, telescopic ski mountaineering  poles

rig: K1, band 40m, output 4W 
antenna: 20m blue wire with fishing pole support

first CQ: 12:09z

fisrt QSO: 12:09z (G4SSH after first CQ !!)

last QSO: 12:43z

number of QSO: 24 on 40m

Distance & superelevation on the top
7,5km @ 686m (the lowest point Františkov - 550m asl)

weather on the top:

-3°C, variable,  40cm snow

Hiking end: railway station Branna 16:00z  (train went 16:39)

Photos:



Frantiskov Meadows [640m asl]
( a quarreling couple in the background ) 



Under hang [1010m asl]

  

The edge [1090m asl]



the top [1236m asl]
the hiking pole is not my,
somebody, maybe SP8PKM, forgot it here

wire winder and fishing pole

ham shack

snowshoes steps

from left: OL-005, OL-002, OL-003



the train will turn in Jeseník and after an hour will take me on board