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| QTH |
There's nothing up there except grass, a few trees around the edges, and an enormous number of mosquitoes. (It's been a wet summer.) So, I lashed a folding chair and table on the bike and rode up there.
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| Antenna |
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| Neighboring Communications Tower |
Also taking advantage of the altitude is a big communications tower.
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| Operating Position |
This was the first bicycle portable CWT with the new KX2, a huge improvement over the KX1, albeit at the price of quite a bit more weight. For this short trip, I also lugged a netbook up there for logging, though it won't do rig control or CW with the KX2. (Probably due to its crippled version of Windows 7.)
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| Transport |
While it would have been a lot easier to just throw everything in the car, I DID ride a bike up there!
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| RBN Reports |
RBN reports looked pretty good, as I had hoped. Conditions were also quite good, and there was lots of activity. When the 13Z CWT was over, there were 58 contacts and 47 mults in the log, by a small margin my best QRP portable score so far. That was quite a bit better than a recent attempt with the KX2 from the home QTH. Maybe I should put up a 20 meter dipole at home!
It was getting pretty toasty in the sun by 14Z, so I won't be doing 19Z from up there until it cools off. I suppose I could drag a sun shade up there along with the furniture, but that's way too much trouble.
