[Elecraft] KX3 in the Appalachian Mountains

[Steve KC8QVO]

I took my KX3 with me this weekend in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. 

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The picture is catching the sun rise at the Clingmans Dome parking area just
before we hiked to the observation tower to start our trek along the
Clingmans Dome portion of the Appalachian Trail (a bit over 3 miles). Along
with me was a Yaesu hand mic, Sony earbud headphones, a jumper dipole
(40-6m), and a solar panel to keep the NiMh AA batteries up. The whole radio
set up was right about 5lbs. This is a world of difference from my FT-857D
(about 15lbs trail weight without the solar panel). 

There was a contest going on this weekend and the CW portion of 40 meters
was clogged with SSB so I wasn't able to make any contacts. The next morning
I didn't have a whole lot of time to get the radio going. We ate breakfast
and broke camp. 

We started out on top of Clingmans Dome and hiked down Sugarland Mountain.
We were going to hike back up to Clingmans over the next two days, but I
hurt myself and we were only 3000 feet in to a 4000 foot decent (then still
had to make it all back up) so we called it quits and hiked back out to the
road and got a ride. We dropped 3000ft in about 12 miles (a lot of it was up
and down, not all down) the first day and 2 miles down another 1000ft (some
up and down too) on the second day. 

Steve, KC8QVO 



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