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Adventure Radio Society Contest: Flight of the Bumblebees 2003This was the first time I've participated in this contest and I had a lot of fun. Contest details are here. Unlike the previous three weeks here in Colorado, the day was 'cool'
- temp in the 80's but with unusually high humidity - our monsoon season
finally arrived. With that in mind, I stayed out of the foothills where
the storms tend to generate. Instead, I went to my local state park about
15 minutes from my house, Castlewood
Canyon, and hiked up about a mile to the canyon rim. Found a nice
overlook with a small cedar tree During the event, only a couple of people stopped by although I could hear more passing by on the trail about 30' away from me. I was fairly well hidden. The first guy helped snap a few shots of me operating and happened to be studying for his ham ticket. We talked for a bit. Later on, another guy passed through looking like he didn't want to see me - strange. The biggest highlight was two golden eagles and a turkey vulture cruising the canyon rim. They would occasionally swoop by within a stone's throw of my position. One of the eagles appeared to fairly large - perhaps 5 or 6-foot wingspan I stayed on 20M the entire time and the AT Sprint worked great. I tried it in the Spartan Sprint earlier this month but the narrow filter seemed to suffer with the high QRN that night or perhaps my local RFI problems. Today, the band was very quiet. Seemed like every other contact was from CA. Was able to work AA1MY in Maine but eastern contacts seemed few. QSB busted several contacts. 39 total Q's with 18 BB's Other pictures: |
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