After activating Mt. Rudnik summits
YU/CS-016 and
YU/CS-023 the previous week, I decided to activate two more summits on the eastern slopes of Mt. Rudnik: Ramaćki visovi
YU/CS-029 and Jelenac
YU/CS-041. Early on Saturday morning I took the already familiar route, but this time turning after Topola towards Stragari and furder to Ramaća village.
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Ramaćki visovi, YU/CS-029 (on the right),
as seen from slopes of Jelenac YU/CS-041 |
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Ramaćki visovi are hills frequently visited by hiking groups.
The path to the summit starts just after entering the village of Ramaća |
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| Beginning of the path |
The sign says there is 1 hour walk to the top. The paths starts as a normal village road, but soon enters into dense shrub vegetation, over rock and stones. This is the kind of hike I do not like on a hot day, especially if one carries a (collapsed) fishing rod on the backpack. Along the path, all the way from the village to the top, there is a low lying improvised powerline for the commercial repeater and antennas on the top. So if you lose the path, just follow the powerline. Only near the summit the path leaves the shrub and goes over bare rocks.
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| Nice thin layered rocks along the path. |
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| A very small viper hiding in front of me |
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| Finally on the summit |
The summit itself is unremarkable - there is no view and it is spoiled by the commercial antenna and small concrete building. Behind it, I found a shady spot to set up my antenna, on now overgrown road probably last used some time ago to build the commercial antenna tower.
I erected the 2 x 10 m doublet and started on 40 meters. Managed to work s2s with YO/HA8LLH on YO/WC-189. After two more stations there were no more takers on 40, so I moved to 30 meters. Another s2s with OK/DJ5AA/P on OK/US-043, ten more regular chasers, and that was all after 50 minutes operating on unpleasantly warm weather among all kind of insects. Only 14 qsos, but I could not stay much longer, in order to descend on time and get to my next SOTA summit Jelenac YU/CS-041.
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| Shadow operation near the summit |
S2S:
YO/HA8LLH YO/WC-189
OK/DJ5AA/P OK/US-043
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