CW
SOTA @ DM/RP-115 Hunsrückhöhenweg
Rain, then sun, then conversations across half a continent on twenty metres. Best DX was a W4 through a hole in the cloud.
SOTA @ DM/RP-078 Hohe Acht
The highest peak of the Eifel. Windy enough to steal a logbook page, cold enough that the coffee turned slushy.
Icom IC-705
All-mode, all-band QRP portable transceiver. Backpack-friendly, big colour touchscreen, built-in D-STAR and GPS. The daily driver.
End-fed Half-wave 40-10
Twenty metres of wire on a Kevlar winder with a 49:1 UnUn. The field workhorse — multiband, light, and forgiving of imperfect sky hooks.