Yesterday, November 15th, I decided to do a mid-morning activation of VE-5141, Lemoine Point Conservation Area, a local to me, POTA spot.
The day before during an activation of VE-5142, Parrott's Bay, I had great success on 10m, so today I decided to do the whole activation, if I could, on 10m. Many of my activations have been done only on 40m, but I had never tried to do this on another band.
Luckily for me 10m was just alive with good signals. First in the log was F4FTJ, and in rapid succession PU1JSV, 2E0VRX, OE4JHW, F4ILH, IK1GPG, EA1BUL, and F4HZR followed. This was the first time I made POTA contacts with Brazil and Austria, that just made my day. The Brazilian station was S9 +20 to me, just an outstanding signal.
The radio was my KX3 set at 10w. The antenna of the day was a 10m Hamstick on the roof of my truck using a 5" mag-mount.
The day's propagation was: SFI=124, SN=40, A Index=6 and the K Index=3. There was no, to very little QSB, and the LIDS and deliberate QRM'ers stayed away for a change.
Hopefully if this run of good weather and decent propagation holds for a few more days, I can get out and do a lot more portable operating, because you know before long the snow will start to fly around here.
Here's the days contact map:
