Once I turned the radio on I opened SOTA Goat on my iPhone to see where the SOTA activators were. I noticed one of them was calling CQ on 12 meters. I had never even listened on 12 meters, so I thought I would give it a go.
I couldn't hear the SOTA activator, but I did here...
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| CO8LY - map from QRZ |
The bands were slightly strange today, a little up and down by there just not too many stations on.
I called CQ on 20 meters near the QRP watering hole.....
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| WB3GCK - from QRZ |
Called CQ some more and...
N3RSD: Frank came back with 559 reports both ways. He was in Wilmington, DE. We exchanged SKCC numbers and called it day. I always feel bad exchanging SKCC numbers when I am using the keyer - should I?
One other interesting thing... I was tuning around at 18.100 and heard W4BVH/BCN Tampa FL - I will have to check this out and let him know I heard it!
Another fun and successful QRP lunch time portable outing!
Hi Burke:
ReplyDeleteThanks for the QSO! I had just started following your blog a week or so ago, so I was surprised last night to see my face in it. :-)
I was indeed QRP. I was running 5W from a Yaesu FT-817/Z-817. The antenna was the "Up and Outer" doublet described on my website.
I'm on vacation this week in a rental house overlooking Currituck Sound. In fact, last night I did some operating from a gazebo at the end of a dock about 45 yards out into the sound. I'll have some pictures and details up on my website after I get back home to Pennsylvania next week.
Be sure to give me a holler if you hear me!
73/72 Craig WB3GCK/QRP/P
Duck, NC on the Outer Banks of North Carolina
Craig - thanks for checking in! I sometimes wonder if anyone actually reads my thoughts here :) I have visited your site multiple times prior to our QSO - I just didn't put your call with that site.
ReplyDeleteHave fun on vacation - looks like a great place!
Hi Burke. What is the antenna you have connected to the KX1 in your QRZ pic? Some sort of Par End Fedz? Thanks. pat n0yca
ReplyDeletePat - that is just a wire that is about 20 some feet long, with a counterpoise laid out on the ground. It is connected to the KX1 with a BNC to terminal adaptor. Let me know if you have another questions!
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