Today is National Summit Activation Day. As last year i decided to activate a french speaking Canton. By Public Transport i got to “Le Locle, Haut-du-Quartier”, from there the hike started. In less than a hour i got into the Activation zone as seen on sotl.as. The is no track at the end, at the destination is a Radio TV Tower. It was a realy hot day and i was sitting in the shadow of the tower. The direction of the Antenna was not perfekt, there was a big fir tree just next to my QTH. Later i walked back to the bus station. This place is a remote place and the Public Traffic runs only every two hours on Sunday. Therefore i had to wait some time until i got a bus. During that time i watched some swallows, they had their nest underneath the farmhouse opposite the bus station. It was fun watching them.

thank you for QSO, 73 de hb9fvk (ruedi)

Today is National Summit Activation Day, for the first Time, every Canton shall be activated and for the first time, the day will be two days. Therefore i decided to go for an French speaking canton. The highest summit is Mont Racine with 1’439m. When i got to the summit, there where very few people. I setup my antenna and started working. Later i locked around, i was surrounded with hikers have their break.  I concentrated doing S2S this day. and at the end i even tried a cw contact with HB9CBR, he was really patient with me and at finally i did it.

Here are the results of the Activation days.