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