[Elecraft] WB3AAL 900th QSO from the Appalachian Trail

[Ron Polityka]

Hello,

 19 January 2008 was a very good day. I got to my operating location around 
15:45 UTC.

The area was covered with snow and the ground frozen solid. I had a very 
hard time to drive the 2 1/2 foot ground rod into the soil to mount my BWV 
(Black Widow Vertical.) The weather started out at 38'F or 3'C and then 
dropped down to 32'F or 0'C. The weather was over cast most of the time with 
5 to 10 MPH winds. It did start to flurry a little but it stopped as quickly 
as it started.

I started calling CQ with my Elecraft K1 @ 5 watts on 7.033 MHz. I follow my 
intended operating plans as posted in a previous e-mail. I did move over to 
15m at 19:00 UTC to look for 2 South American stations that wanted to work 
me. Unfortunately 15 meters was dead but I still called CQ for 15 minutes, 
You never know who is listening.

I made a total of 21 QSO's on Saturday

The following is my log from 19 Jan. 2008:

QSO#    Call               Name        Band    QTH

881        N8XX           Hank        40m        MI
882        K1ESE          John         40m        ME
883        NV1B           Andrew     40m        ME
884        W4FOA        Tony         40m        GA
885        AB4PP          JohnPaul   40m        NC
886        NZ8J             Tim           40m        OH
887        VE3WMB     Mike        40m        Ontario
888        NU7T            Steve       20m        NV
889        KM3D           Harry       20m        PA
890        N0TU            Steve        20m        CO
891        W0RW          Paul          20m        CO
892        AK7D            Fred         20m        OR    18:06 UTC
893        K4PTT           Duane      30m        GA
894        W3EEK/4       Carl         30m        FL
895        KB3QEH        Ed           20m        PA  on the AT
896        WA0QZK      Jack         40m        IN
897        VE3SO          Peter        40m        Ontario
898        K1DCI           Earl          40m        NH
899        N8WS            Bill           40m        OH

900        W3EEK/4       Carl         40m        FL
My 900th QSO from the Appalachian Trail since march 2000.

901        VA3SIE           Martin     40m        Ontario
Only 99 more QSO's to go!!

I had a Great day out on the AT. I seen a couple of black squirrels and a 
lot of wood peckers. Sometime the wood peckers were so loud I had to turn up 
my audio on the K1.

My next trip out will be on 2 Feb 2008 for the FYBO contest.

Thanks to all those who worked me over the years and to those that the 
conditions prevented us from making a QSO. I have no plans on stopping this 
adventure.

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

K1 - SN 01011
K2 - SN 01392