It's our last full day on New Providence Island. With some
sadness I've start to pack for the trip back to the states.
Yesterday was a pretty big day from the ham radio perspective
--> I created two large pile-ups, each lasting over two hours.
The first was on 6m in the morning after breakfast. Now I
really understand why it is called the magic band. The
second was in 40m after dinner. We were blessed with
better than great conditions on 40m. Most of the signals
in our shack were well over S9 and a few were a full 60db over
9. Amazingly (at least to me) the 100 watts out of the K3
was getting similar report. My voice is a bit ragged this
morning, but, after a little caffeine, I'll ready to play some
more on the radio.
This has been a great trip. So
far I've made a bit less than 600 contacts and talked with many,
many interesting hams. The QSO have ranged from pile-ups
to hour long conversations with a single ham. The
highlights included a QSO with the cub scout den and talking
with all my friend back home. I cannot think of a better
way to spend two weeks.
Here are some images from
yesterday. The panoramic is from just after breakfast on
Friday, June 12, 2009. We could see the thunderstorms in
the distance, but did not get wet. The second is a photo
of the crew for Jose, N1BAA --> he collects pictures from as
many Dxpeditions as possible. He's pretty close to working
DXCC from the "Hi Jose" snapshots. Jose did me a great
favor by providing the audio clip of our QSO that is on the home
page of this site.
