Today I activated a recently added and never activated park, Costa Sudoeste, CTFF-0886, which is for a very great part overlapping with CTFF-0012. The latter being the smaller one you have to be careful that you are really activating the bigger -0886. So you need to be OUTSIDE CTFF-0012. The new CTFF website shows informative maps which you can use to determine a good location (thanks Hugo, CT7AOV, for setting this up). I chose a location North of Raposeira. The area is a high altitude plateau (with a lot of wind generators), perfect for radio as the take-off will be good.
Conditions were quite good with nice signals on 10 and 12m. Even NA stations made it into the 10m log including KD1CT who was eager to work this new one. The needed 44 QSOs were made within the hour. Also 12m was in good shape and many chasers could be logged. 15m was very noisy and I could not hear many signals. Maybe a nearby high-voltage line caused trouble again … 17 and 20m yielded the usual EU chasers. And at the end of the activity I shortly tried 30m, which offered an opportunity for some more EU chasers. After seeing him spotted, I made one surprise QSO on 6m/SSB with TT8SN, Nicolas, who is very active on 6m. Tnx Nico !!
After about two and a half hours of air time and 124 QSOs in the log I pulled the plug and packed the station. Activity was better than during my previous activations this week, but attention is definitely taken away by the current DXpeditions (D60AE and TO2DL) as well as by the CWT contest this afternoon (13-14z). Tomorrow another chance when I will visit Barrocal, CTFF-0076.
Here are today’s stats:
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