Hello, my name is Mikel and my amateur radio call sign (identifier) is EA2CW. Since 2024, I also own the USA ham call AE2CW. I live at Bilbao (Basque Country) and I've been on ham radio since I was 17. I began on CB, but soon applied for a novice license, EC2NR. There started my love for the CW (telegraphy) which I still hold at the present. 2 years later I managed to pass the general license tests and was given the call sign EA2AMU, which 5 years later changed to EA2CW. I like DX'ing, contesting &portable operation. I've also operated from Andorra as C30LEU, Ceuta as EA2CW/EA9, Liechtenstein as HB0/EA2AMU, Geneve operating 4U1ITU and, Melilla as EG9TOR, Portugal, France and Açores. I left the radio some years, and in 2013 I've started again on it. 
Now, welcome to my blog. This is a story about amateur radio at mountain summits. I've discovered the SOTA (Summits On The Air) programme on August 2013 and started hiking and transmiting on October 2013. Reached chaser award Shack Sloth (1.000 chaser points) on December'13 and activator award Mountain Goat (1.000 activator points) on August'23. SOTA lets me making exercise, exploring our beautiful basque mountains, and doing portable radio with low power (QRP) transceivers from places with no or very low RF noise, achieving amazing results and meeting other mountaineers and radio lovers around the world.
Would you like to join us on the journey? 73 de Mikel EA2CW