[OKDXA] Mountain topping for South Sandwich

[Robert Redmon]

I have my fingers crossed for you, John. 30 meters is likely your best 
bet if they are on between 0000 and 0100 or so. They have been louder 
then/there than on any other band from my qth. I have to agree with Kim 
and others, a mobile whip will very likely prove useless in this case, 
even from atop Mt. Scott.

Bob



On 1/25/2016 12:57 PM, John Geiger 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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