WB3AAL BB#35 on the Appalachian Trail

[WB3AAL]

Hello,

 The Flight of the Bumblebees is upon us again and I will try to be out on
the Appalachian trail as BB#35. I like to operate this contest a lot but I
never have too much success with the weather. Usually get rained out with
violent thunderstorms.

 The weather for my BB area on Sunday has a 60% chance of Thunderstorms. I
would like to hike to the top of the mountain near Eckville, PA. This would
place me on top of the mountain and it is a 45 minute hike about 2 1/2 mile
up a rocky trail. If the weather looks bad on Sunday I will head to my other
location which is about a 10 minute hike and it places me on the side of a
mountain close to the top.

 Look for me from the Appalachian Trail as BB#35. I will also be looking for
stations that are on the Appalachian Trail in the States of MA and ME.

I need QSO's from the AT with HI, MT and SD States for my WAS.

I will be using the Black Widow Vertical and my K1.

72,
Ron de WB3AAL
BB #35
www.wb3aal.com
www.n3epa.org


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[WB3AAL]

Hello,

 Unfortunately I could not make it out on Sunday's FOBB.

The thunderstorms started around 06:30 UTC / 2:30 AM around Reading, PA. The
lightening was flashing about every 30 seconds with loud claps of thunder.
This went on until 09:30 UTC / 5:30 AM. The rain kept coming down until
11:00 UTC /  7:00 AM. At this time I had to go into work for 2 hours. While
I was there I checked the weather radar to see how the storms were moving.
Unfortunately they were moving very slow and along the Appalachian Trail.

 The weather started to clear around 16:00 UTC / 12 PM in Reading, PA. I
checked the weather radar, unfortunately there were some heavy storms just
North of the area I would be on the Appalachian Trail. I did take a drive to
the two areas I would be operating from but the trail was wet and muddy,
this would make for a very difficult hike. But the thunder in those two
areas were still too close for comfort. They thunder claps were still loud
even with the storm about a couple of miles North. Just was not worth taking
a risk, lightening will travel 7 miles from a storm. Not worth experimenting
with being a human lightening rod on top of a mountain with wire.  :-)

I will be going out sometime on the Appalachian Trail in August

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

K1 - SN 01011
K2 - SN 01392


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