Started today with a Labor Day morning activation on the Blue Ridge Parkway, K-3378. 70 contacts, 60 CW, 10 SSB; mostly on 40 meters with a handful each on 30 and 20 meters. Xiegu G90 at 15 watts to the 41 foot long wire.
The highlight of the day was a P2P exchange with N4JAW.
I almost bailed out on an activation this morning due to an approaching thunderstorm, but when radar showed the storm dispersing, I headed out to the DuPont State Recreational Forest, K-4854.
Conditions were fair to good. I managed to log 103 contacts combined on 40, 30, and 20 meters; 73 on CW and 30 on SSB. The Xiegu G90 at 15 watts and the 41 foot sloping long wire performed well again.
Conditions were okay during this morning’s activation of the DuPont Game Land, K-6902, in N.C. Today, I used the Xiegu G90 at 15w to a 41 foot long wire. I collected 63 contacts, mostly on 40m cw, with a handful of others on 30m and 20m. I did briefly experience some unexpected QRM generated by a park ranger on a tractor grooming a trail just below my operating position.
The weather was perfect today, so I took the new SOTABeams Carbon 6 mast out with the Xiegu G90 and activated Holmes Educational State Forest, K-4856 (NC).
The Carbon 6 mast was lashed to an agreeable sapling and supported my 41 foot long wire. I made 108 contacts, spread coast-to-coast in the lower 48 states and worked EA1FIC and IK4IDF on the other side of the pond for good measure.
Thanks go out to those who took the time to give me a call.