First snow and unexpected SOTA DX
Channel: HB9EAJ Portable Radio
Date: 17/12/2021

The first fresh snow this winter, and as a bonus, my first SOTA DX to Auckland, New Zealand. That is 18'395km away, so only about 1'620km shy of the max. possible distance on earth. 

According to Andrei, ZL1TM, he used 100W and pointed his 3-element Yagi towards the short path. His local time was 0:16, just after midnight.

The solar data on 2021-12-05 was SFI=83, SN=36 and A-index=9.

This activation took place on Sunday, 5 December 2021 on the SOTA summit Hohe Möhr (https://sotl.as/summits/DM/BW-055).

The LAB599 Discovery TX-500 transceiver firmware used was version 1.12.00.

Resources:
ADIF Processor by M0NOM: http://adifweb-env.eba-saseumwd.eu-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/
Transceiver TX-500: https://lab599.com/
Portable 7-Band EFHW Antenna: https://hb9sota.ch/hb9eaj/
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Music from YouTube Audio Library: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary
 
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