June 6, 2015
It was an easy 210 mile tow over with the trailer from Bozeman, MT to Big Horn NRA, WY. We got here early enough to get the second best camping spot for moonbounce i.e. on the south side of the campground with few neighbors. Later in the afternoon the "weekend warrior" campers piled in.
It was an easy 210 mile tow over with the trailer from Bozeman, MT to Big Horn NRA, WY. We got here early enough to get the second best camping spot for moonbounce i.e. on the south side of the campground with few neighbors. Later in the afternoon the "weekend warrior" campers piled in.
The
station setup went flawlessly until I plugged in the 48 vdc power
supply for the SSPA. Poof! Turns out the common and ground side of
mains power here are wired strangely, and the power supply was trying
to protect itself. Finally got that resolved.
Solid
Internet access is 3 miles back up the road, which is actually good
in a way. I'm not distracted when operating. :-)
We
had occasional rain and lightning for hours last night so that
combined with low declination made for some slow going. I ran out of
callers quite early. The folks I did work all had excellent signals.
In
the log with a Wyoming QSO: K9MRI (-25), DF2ZC (-21), W6BBS (-20),
ON4AOI (-20), N5TM (-25), W7MEM (-23), and wonderfully loud EB5GP
(-12).
I'll
be QRV at 0700Z June 7th for more.
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| ON4POI made the most of limited common moon to Europe. |
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| More thunderstorms in the forecast. |
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| The shack, I brought a big screen computer this time. |