Castle "Drakensteyn" - PA-00100 activated

On 25 Oct. 2012 I activated Castle "Drakensteyn" - PA-00100 during my activation of PAFF-054 "Vuursche".

This Castle is owned by the Dutch Queen,surrounded by a big fench and not visible at all.

It is near Utrecht and Hilversum, in the centre of the Netherlands.

I was active on 40 and 20m ssb, and made 140 QSO's in 120 minutes.

I used PA3EKE Hyendvedvertical, FT897D ( 50W ) and did this all on one 5000mAH LiPo.

Location was in a very wet forrest to be near the Castle.

73 de Hans PA3FYG/p

Slot Zuylen PA-00114 activated by PH0NO

Friday I was over at Slot Zuylen (built in 1510) to activate the first castle in the province of Utrecht. Using 20m, 15m and 10m I logged 60 calls in about 90 minutes air time. 

More information on the activity can be found on my blog.

PA-00114 Slot Zuylen (Source: Wikipedia)

New castle list COTA-PA online

Good news!

Today the first part of the revised COTA-PA object list has been released - both on this site as well as on the WCA site. At this moment the list contains all the objects in the provinces Drenthe, Groningen, Noord-Brabant and Utrecht - in total 130 objects including 4 previously activated castles.

This means that activities can take place in these areas as of today using the reference numbers in the new list.

If you plan to activate a castle or have activated a castle please email your info so we can update this site.

73,
Lars / PH0NO 

New COTA-PA website

Welcome to the COTA-PA website!

This website is dedicated to putting COTA "on the map" in The Netherlands. It will in the near future contain all the relevant information you need to activate or chase a COTA-PA reference.