Worked A71CV (Qatar) from the mobile station on the way home from work this evening on 20m, the tarheel works! Just surprised that the rainy weather seemed to detune the antenna from time to time, I wonder if that is normal?

Had fun with the Mobile set up today on the commute. Very fun to hear a few VK stations this morning on the way in, they were sounding good. Gave me hope that the conditions were improving as the bands seemed to be wonderful this morning. Then the bottom fell out and I heard that the sunspots all disappeared, hope they come back soon! A solar flux of only 75 or so, not so great.

Check out this little video from this AM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEHvo28H8uw

Got the little tarheel II installed today, and made a few contacts with it, seems to work pretty well! Had some fun. This should certainty improve the commute!

Also made a few contacts on 20m this evening enjoyed that very much.

The weather is absolutely perfect!

Getting serious about HF mobile with two hours in the car each day. Ordered a Little Tarheel 2 antenna today to go with the 706. Gonna need to spend a few hours getting everything wired up and ready to go. We'll see how that works for me, I'll be sure to let you know. . .

I'm in Brassleton GA on the road for work, catch me on the WJ4FD Dstar repeater!

Enjoyed the NC QSO Party today, thanks to all the stations out there who called me. I think I made about 130 contacts today, many interesting ones and a few surprises, especially on 20m some DX stations that I would've never expected, thank you!

I tried a new logging software that I wasn't too pleased with really. It didn't really do what I thought it would do. Maybe teething pains it being my first time using it. At any rate, I'm going to have to go in and fix my log so that I can submit a log and summary sheet.

Thanks again, it was a blast!

Well, long time no post. Not that anyone is actually paying attention.

I've made a few contacts on HF in the mobile lately, I've got an hour commute each way so leaves some time open for playing radio. Most of them have been 20m, I don't keep a log in the car or have video going or anything. So, if we worked mobile, THANK YOU, it has been a blast. Sure makes the long drive to work a little more fun.

In other news:

North Carolina QSO Party

I'm going to make a serious effort at it this year, see how many Q's I can rack up on SSB. There is a new class this year for SSB only ops, which will be me. Wouldn't it be swell to win the first year ever for the new class with some really nice QSO rates? I think so. In that vein I've purchased some software specifically for this QSO party with all the abbreviations already in the software, also it will link to the rig to record frequency and mode. I've also got another antenna tuner in the hopes that I can load up both of my balanced line antennas and be able to switch between them with the rig's antenna selector. Before if I wanted to switch to the other balanced line antenna I'd have to unhook the antenna from the back of the tuner and fasten the other. This will hopefully help me be a little more flexible. I need to spend some time this week getting the shack ready for the NCQP, I have computers to set up and software to sort, as well as antennas and tuners to check out and make sure they work. Hopefully all will go well and I'll be firing on all cylinders on Sunday Feb 28th at 12:00 EST.

I hope to see you there, it would be great to put you in my log for the NCQP!!