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Ham since 2020. SOTA and QRP portable radio are my thing. Almost exclusively CW...with a sprinkling of SSB and FM. Professor Emeritus, Neuroscience.
@DK1MI doesn't everyone? 😂
Actually I just got it used with the radio condom still attached. Haven't had the heart to remove it.
Brought out the big guns today for my first #SOTA activation of the new year! #857D on the summit!
@wx0mik @W9SSN …and here is W9SSN performing surgery to remove cholla spines on our hike to do the first activation of a #sota summit in Anza Borrego Desert in SoCal https://sotl.as/summits/W6/SD-203
SOTLAS

@qrper now here is a well-used (abused?) Packtenna! About 150 #SOTA activations have started to round off the edges of the PCB, but it's still got a lot of life!
About to do #SOTA activation of W6/SD-017. Spots posted on sotawatch.sota.org.uk. Cool abandoned mines on the way.
@Ea5iyl Do you like using the Xiegu G90 for SOTA activations?
@W9SSN And lest you think SOTA is always a hike on nicely groomed trails, here is Gus fighting his way through 8 ft tall brush to reach the summit of Hauser Mtn!
@N0ZB @qrper @W9SSN That is one pristine-looking KX1! They are fetching a premium on the second hand market if you ever decide to part with it…
@qrper @n6ara …but isn’t your KX2 jealous that you’ve loaned out her battery to her little sister?
@ham_bitious I got it at 35 WPM, but that was with a 0.5 bottle of Chardonnay handicap…