This week we activated 'Sloppy' Floyd State Park US-2187 on Thursday May 28th. We used the site on the park up by the bathrooms on top of the hill in the covered Picnic shelter.
Allen KN4FKS set his end fed half wave wire as a sloper into one of the tall pine trees nearby. With 100 watts power made 53 SSB contacts on 20 meters with les to get a replacements than ideal band conditions to be kind to the propagation gods. He had 20 Park To Park contacts and 2 DX contacts (both P2P) to Canada and Puerto Rico.
Matt AH4MH used Allen's set up and made 13 SSB contacts on 20 meters with 5 P2P contacts Band conditions were such that you had to work for every contact and hope you didn't loose contact mid QSO.
John KB4QXI set up his roof mounted Hamstick on 40 meters then realized his logging computer just went toes up. He headed off to Wal-Mart to get a replacement. Now the fun begins getting the logging software set up to handle POTA. It should be easy but there is always some new wrinkle that doesn't quite match the how to You Tube video. We'll get it up and running this week so he can POTA on.
