[OKDXA] Mountain topping for South Sandwich

[John Geiger]

Hi Bob,

Still hoping to get them. Kind of did plan B.  I was seeing K5P spotted on
17m, a band I need KH5 on, but wasn't hearing them from home.  I got the
mobile setup quickly thrown in the van with the idea of heading up Mt.
Scott after I dropped off my daughter at gymnastics practice.  I figured a
new KH5 band country is better than nothing.  Got the antenna and rig set
up in the gymnastics parking lot, started towards Mt. Scott, and worked K5P
before getting out of Lawton!

Never discount the Mighty MFJ Mini-Hamstick!  That was with 40 watts also!

73 John AF5CC



On Monday, January 25, 2016, Robert Redmon <k5sm.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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