I set out to activate three summits in early November 2022: SO-005, SO-006, and SO-008, which are more or less clustered together. It is about a two and half hour drive from my house south of Bordeaux out to any one of these, but only about a half hour drive between them, going north to south. Alas, I did not manage to activate SO-005 on this trip. I drove partway up the access road and there was a wild boar ( les sangliers ! ) hunt going on: lots of guys in orange vests walking through the woods with rifles. I had a nice chat with a couple of them, but we all agreed it would be safer if I didn’t sit in the woods with a wire in a tree that afternoon. It was the last site of the day, so I was ready to head home anyhow. SO-005 will have to wait for another day.
SO-006, however, was a drive-up activation.
Googlemaps shows the site just to the side of a dirt road that terminates in a commercial antenna site. That site is at the same elevation as the summit marker, so I just parked there, tossed a string into a tree next to the antenna tower, and leaned back against the little utility building. I had no interference from the other radio equipment or power lines.
There is a bit of a view towards the rear of the site thanks to it elevation, but on the other sides there are woods and a tree farm. I saw nobody up there.
