Awesome story. Droolworthy to say the least. I scribe this from my 2nd floor condo in Ocean City, MD that I've whimsically (and perhaps accurately) renamed "QRM City." We are setting up for a week here. I am looking hopefully at the Nanuk case holding my KX3. No AX1 to complement it, but here's hoping the wx holds at least partially this week for a side trip to somewhere like Delaware Seashores State Park for a bit of the Right Coast version of that kind of op.
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 1:21 PM Wayne Burdick [email protected] [KX3] < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Last week my family and I went to Avalon, Catalina Island, off the coast > of southern California. What an awesome place! It feels like a coastal > tourist paradise in another country, except that it’s just 26 miles from > Long Beach. Definitely a bucket-list item. > > To recover from two days of gawking at beach scenery and tapping generous > libations, I set off on a 6 mile solo hike to take in the view from 1500 > feet. And to sneak in a little stealth radio op. > > From downtown Avalon I walked to the Wrigley Memorial, then zig-zagged up > the Garden to Sky trail for 1.2 miles, where I was rewarded with a vista to > the north that includes another of the Channel Islands. At this point I > picked up the jeep road for another half mile, heading east, ascending even > further to a gazebo overlooking the Hermit Gulch campground far below. (The > trail down from here is very steep; if I ever do it again, I’ll go the > opposite direction.) > > This gazebo was the perfect spot to break the KX2 out of its tiny ES40 bag > and deploy the whip, which took all of 30 seconds. > > Aside from the obvious (gorgeous WX, killer view, and the joy of running > 10 watts hand-held to an AX1 whip on 15/17/20), I was blessed with both > acoustic and RF noise floors so low that I was reminded of a minor tinnitus > condition. No wind, no other humans, the occasional cry of a hawk, and the > radio equivalent of a peaceful, easy feeling. I could hear stations that > were merely thinking about transmitting. > > It would be tempting to weave a tall tale about DX worked from this > idyllic overlook. Truth is I just listened for awhile, marveling at how > sparkling clean everything sounded without the usual three coats of RF > grunge we often suffer at home. The noise drops with any trip away from > civilization, of course, but this was exceptional. > > It’s yet another reason to get out of the shack. 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