Wednesday, January 16, 2019

W4C/WM-018 Wine Spring Bald

Another visit to Wine Spring Bald for 2019.   The weather was crisp but not too cold - just above freezing with no wind at the summit.   It was a bit warmer at the base of the climb.   The view below looking at Whiteside Mtn.



My station at the summit - brought the KX3 connected to my home made link dipole.  The REI chair was very comfortable - no more of the legs going to sleep.


There was a ranger station about halfway up the Forest Road from 1916



Nice blue sky back drop with the SOTA flag waving in the slight breeze.



Hiking down - we can still see the summit in the upper part of the picture - one can see the antenna farm



GPS track of our hike


Three summit to summit QSO's - one with Paula K9IR activating Lookout Mountain W9/WI-003 in Wisconsin, with George  KX0R activating Green Mountain W0C/FR-085 in Colorado and with Bob AC1Z activating Mount Israel W1/HA-049  in New Hampshire.    I made QSOs on 4 bands, 60, 40, 30, 20m.   I even got a surprise call from Slovenia S57V.

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