Around the summit |
1st Class Triangulation PointNot a few people mistake theminiature shrine, where I was QRV, with the summit. |
Repeater of "Specified Small"Under environment testing? |
oq|XOOShorter antenna is enough inhigher locations... |
Mt. Ibuki...still in the fog. |
Fogs are...actually thick than they appear. |
The only gracethat soothed me. |
From 1,000m elevation pointOn the way back home, I lookedback the summit. Around 3:00, it was still completely covered. |
Main Equipment |
Rigs: ICB-707, PR-900 (+ 1/2 wave sleeve), DJ-R20D (2) Others: Fishing rod (5.4m), Batteries (6.6Ah, 3.2Ah (2), 5/8 wave 3-stack Co-linear, Foldable chairs (3) (Left: Out-of-focus is not because of fogs, but my poor skill.) |
Ibuki Mountain Operation |
Die Hard
In the film of gLive Free or Die Hardh, released this summer, Warlock, a mogul of hackers, was using a CB radio,
which was the synonym for glow techh (a word used in the film) among those
hackers who were on the cutting edge of digital age, saying he would be
using it as an ginsuranceh to stay in touch with the world to the last
minute of its end even when the microchips went completely belly up and
useless. Toward end of the film, John McClane was trying a contact with
Warlock by calling from the CB radio installed in a truck as he was tracking
down the criminal group, in request for relaying his message to the back-up
unit of FBI Cyber Division, at the cryptic but nonsense? frequency of 66.6
MHz.
Does that mean glow techh is reliable to the last minute?
CB radio might be the representative of glow techh in this age, however, it was really a die-hard machine during this time of operation.
Meet with Aichi AE126
It was an operation after some time of interval, though I was on the air
several times from my neighbor. The original plan this time was to operate
in Odaigahara, but I gave up moving there since I needed to change the
schedule of next day to go on a business trip from early morning. So I
moved to the top of Ibuki Mountain (1,377m) for operation for shorter traveling
time.
Around 8:00 I arrived at the parking lot in front of the entering gate of the Ibukiyama Drive Way at the foot of Mt. Ibuki, and met with Aichi AE126 there, who was also planning to operate in Mt. Ibuki at the elevation point of 1,000m. With coffee he gave me, we spent some time talking about the year-end party that we were expecting in late November, and the food of Swine meat Nabe to be served in the party. As we have conversation, I saw the sky was dull in gray clouds when I looked up toward the mountains.
It became extremely foggy as heavily as I could somehow see the back of
the second car ahead of me, when I came to the higher places in the Drive
Way after passing through 1,000m elevation point. I wondered what the weather and temperature would be there on the
top, as I pulled up in the densely foggy parking and started out for walk
with 42L of sack. It was already past 8:40, but I could see very few people
in the parking area. I recalled, when I was paying the toll at the entering
gate of the Drive Way, the guy kindly asked me if it was OK for me to go
to the top, though I would not be able to see anything from the top this
day because of thick fogs.
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The way to the top |
As I walked to the top, I could see the flowers of Ryuno Giku? were in bloom in clusters. When I came here last time in August of 2003, I did not yet know of any web site related to CB activities and recklessly walked up the same trail for operation without making any notice of QRV on the web BB. Of course at that time, no station happened to be QRV to contact me, and my last hope was to make a QSO with my son in lower grades of elementary school. But he was not familiar enough with the operation of the ICB-87R I left for him, which in the result made me have totally no QSO. It was end of summer at that time, and I could still see various flowers in bloom. |