Even though it was late in the day, it was just too nice a day to let the opportunity to play radio slip away! I thought a lot about where to go: new park? different park? but in the end, I went with nearby and familiar.
Other than that, everything went well! The X6100 was on the air in minutes, and conditions were good. It was fairly easy to find a few unused kilohertz on 20 meters so I started calling CQ and spotted myself on the POTA site.
Hunters started calling me soon, and continued coming in. By the third page of the log I had lost count. I called “last call”, and got 2 or 3 more. “last call” again, 2 or 3 more. Third or fourth time there were no responses to repeated last calls, so I pushed the power button and spotted myself as QRT.
Wow. 25 contacts in 40 minutes. Two park-to-parks. Thought I heard a DX call once (papa delta ? ??), we tried a couple of time but I couldn’t get his whole call and his signal faded away.
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