Same thing on many (not all!) of those SOTA peaks. I keep giving 599's to stations that I know would only be 339's to me at home.
Chip AE5KA On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 11:25 AM Christopher Hoover <[email protected]> wrote: > I did much the same with my KX2 on Santa Cruz Island (part of Channel > Islands, 20 miles off the coast of Ventura) two weeks ago. Definitely > recommended. > > 73 de AI6KG > > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Wayne Burdick <[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. And why we keep > designing > > rigs like the KX2. > > > > 73, > > Wayne > > N6KR > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
