Activating ZS/KN-158 November 2025

 A short, steep ascent from a rural village to a well wooded summit

 The D3 dirt road (yellow road below) is signposted from the R617 and is driveable with a normal car.  It took me about 25 minutes to get to the junction with the grey road.  I parked just off the road next to an electricity pole as indicated by the blue dot below:

A local worker pointed me to the nearest ascent track which looked well used (see arrow below).  In fact there seemed to be several tracks up the summit which criss cross from various points.
 

 

 

 

I just kept walking upwards until I was in the activation zone.  The actual summit was well wooded with thorny bushes and, I suspect, snakes and other hazards, so I chose a clearing with some shade and space for my sotapole:

HF Propagation conditions were challenging and it took me an hour to achieve 7 QSOs on 20, 30 and 40m SSB.  2 QSOs were possibly unconfirmed (we exchanged callsigns and signal reports, but the other station did not confirm the report I gave).  So 5 definite QSOs with the summit activated, but hard going!

 

My bandhopper antenna also got caught by the thorny bushes and broke at one point, so I needed to perform an emergency repair!

 

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