CQNP SS07

[filkerdave]

Today may have been one of the last really nice days of the year, so I packed up my radio gear and headed out to Fire Island National Seashore a.k.a. SS07 to do a National Parks on the Air activation. Because this weekend is the SSB Sweepstakes (a radiosport contest) I decided to mainly operate CW. It's a bit of a challenge for me to do that. I'm

Comments

[hrrunka]

I find it's slightly easier being on the sharp end of a pile-up like that, because the casers want the contact, and will mostly adapt heir sending to match what you're managing. They also, mostly, know what they're expecting to hear from you. How many contacts did you end up with?

Curiously, yesterday there was a bit of a SOTA NA-EU summit-to-summit party. The aim had been to have a lot of American and European summits on the air simultaneously, and it seems to have worked fairly well, but the weather over here was sub-optimal for outdoor radio, so I expect the number of European summits was down a bit. I decided to pass up the opportunity when the skies went grey and things began to get rather wet...

[filkerdave]

32 in the log, of which 26 were CW and 6 were SSB. I'm pretty happy with that!

[hrrunka]

Excellent. I figure I'm doing OK with a SOTA activation if I get into double figures...

[filkerdave]

I've looked briefly at the SOTA rules. 3 Q's make the activation official, right? (Of course, I expect SOTA is almost always QRP. A lot of NPOTA stuff is done QRP, but a fair amount isn't. (And then there are those people running 10W, which I still consider QRO!)