EA6/MA-060 Santa Magdalena

Santa Magdalena, Mallorca

10 September 2026 ·20 m / 40 m

A small hill above Inca, 305 metres, two points — and the IC-705 in the backpack. Twelve SSB contacts, from Andalusia to Moldova.

The Puig de Santa Magdalena stands alone in the plain above Inca, in the middle of Mallorca. 305 metres, reference EA6/MA-060, two points, locator JM19lr. A road leads to the top; from the car park it is a few hundred metres on foot. Not a mountain, but a summit — and up there you stand in the open, looking across the whole island to the coast.

View from the Puig de Santa Magdalena over pine forest and an industrial estate down into the plain, the coast and the deep blue sea beyond

The rig

Not the KX2 this time but the IC-705 — as EA6/OE5SOS/P. In the afternoon it was running on 14.276 MHz USB.

The Icom IC-705 lying on its bag, the display showing 14.276.005 in USB, the red and black power lead beside it

The contacts

Twelve QSOs, all SSB: eleven on 20 metres, one on 40. From the island the whole of Europe fans out to the north-east — England, the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, Slovenia, Moldova, Greece; plus Navarre and, the only one on 40 metres, Andalusia.

Map from the SOTA database: dashed yellow lines run from Mallorca to Leeds, Groningen, Kraków, Brno, Slovenia, Moldova, Patras and Pamplona, an orange one to Andalusia

The activation in numbers

Reference EA6/MA-060

Points 2

QSOs 12

Bands 20 m / 40 m

73 · OE5SOS