[OKDXA] Mountain topping for South Sandwich

[Kim Elmore]

It depends on what you have at home. Short whips are very inefficient so if you're already a little pistol this won't increase the caliber or muzzle velocity :)

I've been on travel this entire time and so haven't had any chance, but everything I've heard is that conditions are very poor. Can't work 'em if you can't hear 'em. 

Like you, I like snagging the DX with my own station. But, sometimes I simply don't make it. In this case, big antennas up high may be the only hope. 

73,

Kim N5OP

"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith

> On Jan 25, 2016, at 13:57, John Geiger <af5cc2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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