[Elecraft] WB3AAL QRPTTF Report

[Ron Polityka]

Hello,

 What a QRPTTF. When I was hiking in a 5 foot black snake went across my 
path for the rocks in the sun.

I arrived and had my station setup with two antennas by 16:00 UTC. I called 
CQ on 15 meters, did not have any replies but I did hear some FQP stations 
down around 040. I did call CQ on 15 meters at the top of every hour, no 
Q's.

My operating bounced between 20 and 40 meters. When the propagation was bad 
on 20 I went to 40m. The day started out with the warm sun and temps. around 
68'F. At one point in time I fell asleep while calling CQ, the sun did feel 
good after the long winter and cold spring here in EPA land.

I made a total of 14 contacts. QSB was very bad on 20 meters.
13 SPC and 4 Taco Bell stations.

My day was cut short due to a steady rain that hit the area around 19:30 
UTC. I took my antennas down and packed up to hike out. Really wish I could 
have made another 5 QSO's. I would have hit the 800 Q's from the Appalachian 
trail since March 2000. One bright note, I did workKB0R on the MN/ND border. 
I needed ND from the AT and with that one in the bag I need 3 more states. 
HI, OR and SD.

I was using my K1 and the BWV.

72 and Thanks,
Ron Polityka
WB3AAL
www.wb3aal.com
www.n3epa.org/

K1 - SN 01011
K2 - SN 01392