[Elecraft] Back from Mt. Palomar...

[Trevor Jacobs]

Hey Gang,

Just got back from Mt. Palomar camping at 5000 Ft. this afternoon. We
had a great time, although it rained quite a lot Friday night through
Sunday morning. No worries though as we were prepared for this. GORTEX
RULES!!!! We stayed nice and dry, but it was too wet on those days to
pull out the rig.

I had 10 very nice QSO's on the times when it wasn't raining and we
weren't hiking the trails. The rig was the same setup I used on QRP TTF.
Stations worked were:

AA5SI - Harold - El Paso, TX - 20 M

N0YGY - Colin - Littleton,CO using his house gutters!!! Worked great too
as he had a fantastic sig. Thanks for the K2 nr Colin! - 20 M

W6NKT - Harry - Morro Bay, CA - Harry is 92 and as steady a fist as they
come! - 40 M

WA2TDL - Rick - Buffalo, NY - Best DX for normal QSOing - 20 M

AB5PC - Dave - Fresno, CA - 40 M

AB7IC - Tom - Tucson, AZ - Tom was running 400 mW with an SMK-1! Nice
signal too! - 40 M

N6BS - Bill - Los Angeles, CA - 40 M

WS0L - Jess - near Peyton, CO - 15 M

AK7D - Fred - Portland, OR - 20 M

K5HK/MM - Carl - about 1500 miles out of Los Angeles heading to KH6 land
on a container ship!!!! This QSO made my day! Carl was running 2 watts
from an SST-20 to a Vertical. Second time I've worked Carl, but first
from /P to /MM - 20 M

I also got on the air for the Spartan Sprint and had a great time! Nice
to hear all of the calls in there. First and best DX QSO was none other
that Seab AA1MY! Nice signal too Seab. Worked Doc K0EVZ with his Monster
signal on 20 and 40, Mert W0UFO, Glenn WA7SPY and a bunch more familiar
calls. Got a total of 34 QSO's during the sprint. Haven't added up the
SPC count yet, but most were out of CA. Another very notable QSO was
Dennis WA8ZBT on 15 Meters from TX. He had a fantastic signal at 500
mW!! I'm surprised that I didn't hear more of you on 15, as the band
seemed quite open.

I'll be putting up a web page with full details soon and will let you
know when it's up. Took ton's of pictures. Since I added the 256 MB
memory card the camera can hold 392 pics!!! Take care...

73's Trev KG6CYN
http://www.qsl.net/kg6cyn