Today was probably the last POTA activation before Christmas this year, things are starting to get busy around here.
It was a gloriously bright day, blue sky and a very balmy -3C, so I decided to go to Parrotts Bay VE-5142, which is not very far from my home QTH. The first problem I had was when I arrived there, the parking lot had not been plowed out and there was over 2' of hard snow over it. Once I got into the parking lot I was fine, but it touch and go at first.
Today's propagation was not too bad: SFI=155, SN=131, A Index=6 and the K Index=1.
It took me 26 minutes to put 32 contacts in the log, including one from Mike, CU3HY, in the Azores.
Here's today's contact map:
Stay Safe Out There!!
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ReplyDeleteI would be interested to see photos in a future post how you deploy hamsticks. Your getting some decent distances at low power. I’m finding my current setup not idea for high winds. Thank’s VE3WLX
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