Flight of the Bumblee Bees - 2004
It was an amazing Flight of the Bumblebees. Before noon I tuned around
on 40, 30, 20 and 15 from home. I didn't hear a single signal! So I delayed
leaving. I listened at 1:00. There were signals. Bees buzzing. Only on the 
QRP freqs. The rest was dead. Amazing. The tiny buzzing of bees was 
being heard across the country. I packed up and left almost immediately.
I rode my bike into the Pemigewasset flood control area and reached the
site around 2:00. I put up an 80 foot dipole fed with 300 ohm ribbon between
two trees... a linden and an oak. The antenna was up about 30 feet. KD1JV's ATS2
and a ZM-2 tuner. Power from 8 AAs. I operated about 2 hours.
and worked 12 stations. Congrats go to Chris
N3XRV for pulling me out of the hive. He gave me a 229 but got the whole exchange!
WA9TZE never heard me although I could copy him pretty well. I worked Carter
N3AO twice. Once for the exchange and once later for fun. NK9G in WI was the
best DX. I did fine to North Carolina. I had a blast! To think of those signals
making it through deader than dead propagation. It's awesome. Here's the log.
Thanks to all. 
Looking North from my operating position
Date            UTC             Freq    Call   Mode     My      His    Exchange
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25 Jul-04       1830            14.06   W4ZV    CW      339     559     NC 135 
25 Jul-04       1840            14.06   WB4X    CW      559     549     NC 218
25 Jul-04       1844            14.06   AA4XX   CW     449     449     NC 120
25 Jul-04       1904            7.04    NK9G      CW      559     559     WI 48 
25 Jul-04       1914            7.0     W4ZV       CW      559     559     NC 135 
25 Jul-04       1917            7.04    N3AO      CW      559     559     PA 133  
25 Jul-04       1930            7.04    N3XRV   CW       229     559    PA 5W
25 Jul-04       1944            7.04    N2CQ      CW      559     559     NJ 86 
25 Jul-04       1958            14.06   K1VP     CW      559     559     NH 12 
25 Jul-04       2012            7.04    K3ESE   CW      559     559     MD 5W
25 Jul-04       2015            7.04    K1VP      CW      339     559     NH 12 
25 Jul-04       2034            7.04    W8VE     CW      559     559     OH 5W