[SECC] Day 1

[Ricky DeLuco]

Well day 1 was a complete epic fail.  The noise level for me was 7+ all day 
In Harris county.  I managed to get a whopping 19 qso's and three of them was PSK31.  

 today is another day.   I am moving up the road 6 miles to the top of the  mountain.   Will be at a picnic camp area and a scenic look out point so the elevation is really high.  Yesterday I was in a valley with a vertical.  

In scoping it out I noticed a flag pole without a flag.  So I am going to run up a OCF and tie down an inverted V.   Hopefully park rangers will not bust me and and yell.   LOL.    Gotta do what I gotta do ! 

Good luck today.  


73, Ricky K4JTT 
From Harris county. 



On Apr 10, 2011, at 6:27 AM, "Greg Potter" <gregpotter at charter.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> Things went pretty well.  I went driverless yesterday.  Today I have a
> driver for the first time ever.  K4DI will be chauefering me around.  Missed
> a few counties on the end of the run because I lost some time.  We will pick
> them up today I hope Ogle, Madi, Clarke, Barrow.  Hopefully someone already
> ran them. 
> 
> Strange occurrence in Hart County on an old back road that will remain
> un-named,  I encountered some folks that were very very nice, but appeared
> not to like me parked on their road at 10 p.m. in the evening with a huge
> antenna on the back of the truck.  I have no idea who they were.  I should
> have asked I guess, but they never said I could not be where I was. They
> just asked a lot of conversational friendly questions in a really smooth
> manner.  I really don't want to know who these folks were. I could have made
> a big stink about it, but they were very nice and getting confrontational
> could have ruined the remainder of my route!
> 
> I am thinking I was parked too closer from some VIP house or something.
> Finished my run on 40 meters and moved on.  I am not a conspircay theorist,
> but it was really strange.  My "amateur radio" explanation was accepted, but
> when I got home someone had called my house to confirm who and where I was. 
> 
> Spooky dudes.
> 
> 
> 
> 73 de Greg NM2L
> 
> 
> 
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