[OKDXA] Mountain topping for South Sandwich

[John Geiger]

They were on 15 meters a couple of hours ago.

73 JOhn AF5CC

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Perry Jenkins via OKDXA <
okdxa at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Something I read said they only have a 40 meter antenna left. Not sure if
> that is still true.
>
> Perry N5PJ
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 25, 2016, at 12:57, 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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