[OKDXA] Mountain topping for South Sandwich

[John Geiger]

I see tonight is the last night of operations for this ATNO for me, so I am
willing to pull out most stops to try and get them.  Just north of town
here we have Mt.Scott, which is around 1000 feet above the average terrain
and has a nice parking lot on top.

If I were to go up there with a mobile whip, would the extra elevation make
much of a difference on HF?  I could park as close to the edge as possible,
on the southeast quadrant-facing South Sandwich.  I have MFJ mini hamsticks
for 17 and 20 meters.  Before you laugh at using a 3 foot antenna, they
actually perform really well for their size.  Saturday afternoon while
driving back from a gymnastics meet I worked JA, VK, and LU within 15
minutes on 17 CW using 40 watts.

So has anyone tried this?  Will this show any improved performance from the
height and sloping ground beneath me?

Hope others are in the VP8STI log, this one is proving frustrating for me.

73 John AF5CC