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Appalachain Trail Today

Hello,

The weather is Great today in the EPA area. Sunny skies with the temps in
the 70's. Since Field Day is next week I have to get out to keep my run
alive.

I have one or two things to do at the house then I am going out to the
Appalachian Trail to work on my 800+ QSO's. All I need for WAS is HI, MT and
SD.

I should be at my operating location around 15:00 UTC. I will start out on
7.033 +/- 3 kHz for QRM. I will work there until 16:00 UTC which I will go
to 21.060 for a short time and call CQ. If nothing heard I will be on 14.063
+/- 3 kHz for QRM around 16:30 UTC. I hope the contacts will be good, if
they are I should be on the air until 20:00 UTC bouncing between 40 and 20m.

72 and Thanks,
Ron Polityka
WB3AAL
www.wb3aal.com
www.n3epa.org/

K1 - SN 01011
K2 - SN 01392

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WB3AAL

Re: Appalachian Trail Today

Hello,

I started calling CQ from the AT around 15:00 UTC on 7.031 MHz. I called
for about 20 minutes before I finally had someone reply to my CQ. The bands
were not in the best of shape, there was a lot of QSB and around 17:00 UTC
the QRN started to build due to the storms to the north of my location.

I worked the following stations.

KD8G Randy in WV 40m
N3AO, Carter in VA 40m
W2KJ, Joe in NC 40m
KC0JKD, Jim in MO 20m
N0GI, Jack in MN 20m
VE3FUJ, Brian in Ont. 40m

I did call CQ of 15 meters for about 15 minutes, no signals heard on the
band. I also tried 30m but nothing heard there either.

The chipmunks were causing a lot of QRM in and around me while I was on the
air. But it was another Great Day out on the Appalachian trail in PA. The wx
was sunny and with the temp around 75' F. There was a nice breeze and in the
forest . . . .well it was just Great. Wish I could have made a few more
QSO's but I guess you can't have everything. On my hike back to my car I
came upon a 2 1/2 foot long and fat Eastern Garter Snake sunning himself on
some rocks on the trail.

72 and Thanks,
Ron Polityka
WB3AAL
www.wb3aal.com
www.n3epa.org/

K1 - SN 01011
K2 - SN 01392

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