Wanted to try out my gear so I hiked up this butte which is right behind my house. About 1000 ft straight up. No trail to speak of, just a lot of loose rock. Set up my Buddipole and tuned it with a small analyzer. Operated 20m CW with my Elecraft K-1 and mini-paddles. Battery was an 1800mAh 12 volt model airplane Li-Po I had laying around the shop. It wasn't until I quit that I realized I never used the auto-tuner in my K-1, so who knows how much my 5 watts was throttled down. I'll try to remember that next time.
Nothing but sharp rocks to sit on at the peak, very uncomfortable, and I was in a hurry because I wanted to beat the nice big winter storm that's bearing down on us today. A good learning experience for my first time out. Thanks to the following chasers:
- WA2USA
- K6ILM
- KI0G
- W7GH
- AJ5C
- KE5AKL
- NS7P
- K7NEW
73 DE JIM