DX from Sky Pond
September 2015

Judy and I went to Sky Pond this afternoon for a swim. It was nearly 85F.
We had a great swim and afterwards I set up the little Mountain Topper.
I worked England, Hungary, France, Czech Republic, Canada and a few states.



Sky Pond is a remote lake in the foothills of the White Mountains. It's
a favorite spot for fishermen in the spring. The only one on the lake today
was a solitary loon.

I set up the LNR 40, 30 20 end fed wire as an inverted L. It went up about
25 feet and over 40 feet. It really worked well.

I started out on 20 meters working stations in the CWT sprint. Then I switched
to 40 meters and worked Virginia, Pennsylvania and Quebec.  I went back to 20
meters for a final contact with Hungary. The MTR is powered with 8 AA cells.
It runs about 3 watts. Here's my log:

2 Sep-15 1945  14.042 F6HKA  CW 599 599 France  
2 Sep-15 1948  14.031 G4DRS  CW 599 599 England 
2 Sep-15 1949  14.030 WJ9B   CW 599 599 ID 
2 Sep-15 1950  14.025 OK1DIG CW 599 599 Czech Rep 
2 Sep-15 1954  7030   K3MD   CW 599 599 PA   
2 Sep-15 1956  7031   K4HQK  CW 599 599 VA   
2 Sep-15 1957  7033   VE2FK  CW 599 599 PQ   
2 Sep-15 2004  14.019 HA8DM  CW 599 599 Hungary 



I operated about 20 minutes and headed home. Judy made some homemade fruit sherbet.