Back from Winter Field Day

And it was a raging success this year: 62 contacts, across 11(!) band/mode combos.  Even passing up the QRP (< 5 watts) 2x point multiplier this year – operated at 100 watts, just because I wanted more contacts – it looks like this year's results will be way over and above previous years'.  Not to mention really great weather and ionospheric conditions on Saturday.

Highlights of the trip: One pre-WFD 10m contact to Scotland.  One WFD 2m contact to Eastpoint.  Honestly, the second one was more unexpected than the first.  Pretty much all HF bands were open, at least some of the time, so I was able to work everything from 80m up to 10m (skipping the WARC bands, of course).  Also, my first time camping at Wright's Lake, so that was a plus.  Nice enough place: improved (but not too much) campsites with water faucets and picnic tables, no electric hook-up which was fine by me.  Tried the new 6m window line antenna, but no band openings there.  Oh well, one of these days.

OK, tired.  Got to get back to cleaning gear.