YU/VO-005 Zagajačka brda

Zagajačka brda - YU/VO-005 - 250m 1 point

The lowest SOTA summit in YU association

Zagajačka brda (*) is a group of small hills, part of Deliblatska peščara (Deliblato sands) Nature reserve (YUFF-031), in Banat, close to Danube and border with Romania. The hills are actually vegetation covered loess and sand deposits of characteristic shape, resembling dunes or rounded little hills in Teletubbyland. With an elevation of 250 meters, Zagajačka brda is the lowest summit in YU SOTA association list.

We arrived there early on Friday afternoon, later than planned, so there was not much time left for operation. We had to hurry to catch a ferry across Danube before dark. I operated only on 7 MHz using the doublet spread at 5 meters above ground, between the structure on the summit and my fishing pole. First qso was my first summit to summit contact ever with HB9BCB/P on HB/BE-158. In the next 15 minutes I made 7 more contacts, with strongest signals from YO2BP in Timisoara, very close to me. Before dismantling the antenna I tried my luck on 10 MHz, without success.

View of Vršačka brda, 28 km away

Anyway, I plan to come again to YU/VO-005 and make more contacts since it is not too far from home and the scenery is beautiful. If not sooner, than on April next year to look for morels (there were none this spring, March was too dry for them)

S2S:

HB9BCB/P HB/BE-158

(*) Now I see that correct name of the hills is Zagajička brda, since the hills are named after the village Zagajica