I visited Europe for a couple of weeks and took my radio equipment with me to do some SOTA activations. The next few trip-reports summarize my Austrian SOTA activations. BTW, clicking onto a picture included in this trip-report will show you a larger version.<\/p>\n
For my first activation, I was looking for a summit with easy access. I wanted to make sure I have everything with me before heading into the mountains. I found the perfect SOTA summit for my requirements during my time in Austria<\/a>\/Vorarlberg<\/a>. OE\/VB-512<\/a> was just a few miles from my temporary QTH and there even is a gondola going from Bregenz <\/a>(the capital of Vorarlberg) to the very top. Bregenz is delightfully located on the shore of Lake Constance (one of Europes largest lakes) and is probably most famous for it’s summer music festival that features an opera on a open-air \/floating stage. Even James Bond<\/em> could not resist to visit the opera in his quest to rescue the world, in his movie ‘Quantum of Solace<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n I decided to take the gondola – which leaves close to the lake shore – and take a short detour downhills in order to satisfy SOTA rules, instead of hiking all the way up.<\/p>\n Trailhead: 1374 ft \/ 419 m
\nSummit:\u00a0\u00a0 3491 ft \/ 1064 m
\nElev. gain: 2117 ft \/ 645 m
\nRoundtrip: 5.5 mi \/ 8.9 km<\/p>\n