A Beautiful Day...

It was a beautiful day here last Wednesday, blue sky, and not a cloud to be seen. It was far too nice to spend it indoors in the shack chasing DX. Instead I decided to head to the Frontenac Biosphere, CA-0023, and activate it.

The Frontenac Biosphere is a huge area covering most of southern Frontenac Country and Leeds-Grenville County. There are an unlimited numbers of spots to pick to operate from, although I tend to favour a site near the old K&P Rail trail. That ensures there's parking nearby.

Propagation was pretty good for a change that day: SFI=152, SN=128, A Index=8, and the K Index=1. Radio used was my KX3 with 40m and 20m Hamsticks.

You can see from the picture on the left that the temperature was extremely uncomfortable. At 1510 UTC it was 37C (98.6F), way too hot to operate for too long.

The answer of course is lots of water, and being able to turn on the trucks air conditioner every once in a while to cool things down.

As it turned out after 12 contacts the bands turned off and the signals simply disappeared, giving me an excuse to go QRT and get home to a cool house.

I don't think I'll be going out again in those kind of temperatures.

Stay Cool Out There!!