I used my K2 solar at 5W (due to the 1B1B rules; wish it were 10 for
SSB) and operated almost exclusively 20m CW to my new Buddipole and a
44' inverted vee I made yesterday morning and ran up the flagpole at the
local elementary school. This year I put PowerPoles on a few pieces of
300 ohm window line and used Velcro tie wraps to hold the powerpoles
together, so I could adjust the length as necessary. I tried a BL2 but
found that Alan's Balun (WB6ZQZ) worked best, ebem though both were set
for1:1. I don't know why, but that's why I have more than one balun.
(Maybe when I get the VNA I will find out.)
There are pix of all this at http://wa5znu.org/log
Unfortunately, 1B1B doesn't allow a GOTA station, and if you hand the
mic to someone else you are 1B2, so the amount of public outreach I
could do and not sacrafice points and standing was limited (another
minor beef with the rules here), but I spent a lot of time talking to
people passing by. As a result, I got interviewed by the San Jose
Mercury News and photographed by the Palo Alto Weekly for their website
paloaltonline.com.
I also had a visit from the director of communications (police, 911,
etc) for Palo Alto who inspected my quick-deploy station gear before I
unpacked, the director of the local Red Cross chapter (the Palo Alto /
Mountain View / Los Altos), 2 inactive hams who left with contact info
for the local PAARA club, an OM who was interested in getting his
license, and 2 other people who talked about their plans to take the
Palo Alto neighborhood emergency disaster response team training
(PANDA)
Not bad for 1B1B!
Oh, and I made some QSOs as well.
Leigh/WA5ZNU
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