Hello all, I decided to beat the traffic and left early for my Blue Moon QRP Hike on Friday. I arrived at the Rt.183 AT Trailhead around 20:30utc. I then hiked in to the pond area and surprized a rather large heron bird and a big old bull frog. The bird took off into the air and the frog just jumped into the pond with a loud splash!
I set up in the shade of the trees that surrounded the pond on the west side. I started operating around 20:45utc or so. By 21:12utc I snagged my first catch of the day -hi! It was Dan,KB6NU, from MI who gave me a 459. At 21:38utc my pond fishing produced another catch. This was a big one for me WQ8RP from MI. By now the qrn was bad, but we made the contact - thanks Hank! The pond was now producing local qrm. Yes, the bull frogs started to compete with each other for the loudest crooking award! It was so bad I had to tightly fit my ear buds into my ears. Maybe they were warning of the approaching storm? I now cast again into the great ionosphere for another nibble and at 22:05utc I hooked WT8N in ME. Jack, WT8N, and myself were having a great qso, but then the wind hit. I had to cut the qso short and hike back to my truck before the storm hit. By the way, all my QSOs were on 40m as 20m and 30m produced no nibbles. I was really glad to work WQ8RP from the trail as this made my day. Five minutes after driving down the mountain, I hit the storm. I guess those bull frogs do know a thing or two -hi! 72, Ed,WA3WSJ _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
