Not much to say here - tried to operate OC on the shores of Lake Huron. Beautiful, sunny day, but COLD, and colder the longer I sat. So, I didn't sit so long. I brought a tripod so I could take some pix with the op at the key with the self timer, but it took me longer to set up than planned, so only these rather dull pictures.
I strung up a dipole between a couple of trees with fishing line. I'm not a fisherman so I didn't realize just how slippery that stuff is. With the onshore gale, every so often the signals would drop and I'd notice my antenna on the ground. Eventually I got them to stay, but it was hard to hear with the wind howling, and like I said, COLD! The weatherman tonite said it was 70 inland, 48 on the shore. Felt a lot colder.
A little tough to tell from the picture, but the blue box is an NC-20 with my wife's Milleneum Teal covering (gotta get some pix of that). The Whiterook paddle is partially hidden by the headphones. The Super Marvin coffee cup wasn't nearly big enough.
