SP5LAG

Michał Warchoł • Warsaw, Poland • KO02MD

SOTA & POTA enthusiast. Software developer by day, antenna builder and contest operator by night.

Hi, I'm Michał

Ham radio operator from Warsaw, originally from the south of Poland. My heart longs for mountains and nature — SOTA activations are the perfect excuse to combine hiking with radio.

I work as a software developer, which probably explains why half my shack is Raspberry Pis running various tracking and monitoring scripts. When I'm not coding or on the air, I'm winding transformers or experimenting with wire antennas.

Also active as: SP5LAG/P • SP5LAG/M • 9A/SP5LAG

Station

Radios

Yaesu FT5D Daily driver — APRS, C4FM, always in my backpack

Yaesu VX-6R My first radio, still going strong after ~10 years. SOTA companion.

Yaesu FT-891 Field ops & portable HF with battery

Yaesu FT-818 2m SSB and lightweight expeditions

Yaesu FT-450D HF base at QTH

Yaesu FTM-6000 VHF/UHF base

Yaesu FTM-200D Mobile — installed in the car, C4FM + analog

Antennas

22m Endfed + loading coil Between trees ~6m AGL, works 80m with coil. My workhorse.

DX Commander Classic Multiband vertical for contests and field days

80m Dipole NVIS — great for SP and EU regional contacts

80m Endfed (extended) 160m band

Sirio New Tornado 10m FM/SSB vertical

SOTA & POTA

SOTA — Summits on the Air

5 summits

20 points

SP/SS-001 Wielka Sowa 1015m · 8 pts

SP/SS-005 Szczeliniec Wielki 919m · 6 pts

SP/SZ-003 Skalnik 945m

SP/SP-001 Sleza 718m · 4 pts

SP/GS-001 Lysica 612m · 2 pts

SOTL.as profile

POTA — Parks on the Air

199 parks hunted

239 hunter QSOs

Diamond Sapphire Platinum Gold Silver Bronze DX Hunter Support Your Parks New Years Arizona Agave

POTA profile

SSB SOTA POTA Contests C4FM APRS FT8 DX CW

QSL

I confirm QSOs via:

LoTW Logbook of The World

eQSL Electronic QSL

QRZ.com QRZ Logbook

Bureau via OT 35

Direct Paper QSL on request

QSL Manager

OT 35

Bureau QSL via Polish Bureau

Contests

CQ WW DX SSB

2025 · #3 Poland

Single Op Low Power 14 MHz · 29,952 pts

CQ WW DX SSB

2024 · #13 Poland

SO Assisted LP All Bands · 219,390 pts

EUDX Contest

2024 · #34 World

SO All Band SSB LP · 438,628 pts

UKEICC DX SSB

2024 · #3 Poland

EU LP UnAssisted, 243 QSOs · 56,134 pts

European HF Championship

2023 · #11 Poland, #43 Europe

SSB Low Power · 13,552 pts

Contact

Want to exchange QSL cards, ask about my station setup, or schedule a sked? Drop me a line.

QRZ.com qrz.com/db/SP5LAG POTA pota.app/SP5LAG SOTA sotl.as/SP5LAG QSO Map qsomap.sp5lag.pl Coax Calc coax.sp5lag.pl

SP5LAG

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