This blog update on my 2012 Challenge of having at least one QSO per day is late. However, I’m still very much on track and as I post this update, I have less than two weeks to go. Barring the Mayan’s were correct or some other catastrophic issue occur, I should easily coast through the remaining time without a problem.
December is always a busy month for me. My wife and I typically travel down to Texas to visit my family in early December. This year was no exception. I carried my Buddipole, Elecraft KX3 and my laptop and was successful at getting at least one JT65 QSO each day. On the last evening a cold front moved into the area and I had to enlist my darling wife to come and help hold the Buddipole antenna tripod. While I had concerns I might not be successful at getting contacts with this setup, the stress was for not. Band conditions were fine and I managed to work many stations running just 5-10 watts out of the KX3. The picture is my Buddipole setup as a dipole in my grandmothers front yard.
Anyway, enough about December…here are my results for November.
The QSO breakdown for November is as follows:
Mode
Number QSO’s
JT65
34
SSB
19
PSK31
0
2m FM
2
Additional notes of interest:
DX Stations Worked in November – 3
New DX Entities in November – 0
Total QSO’s for 2012 – 1392
Total consecutive QSO days – 335
Days left in 2012 – 31
Until next time…
73 de KD0BIK
See that you posted this a few weeks ago. How are you doing on your progress so far, now that the Mayans were wrong ?
I’ve been missing your podcasts in the past 2 months. Finally googled you, found your websites, and see that those haven’t been updated in a while either. Hoping and praying you’re doing well.
It’s been a busy start to the new year.
73,
Jerry
Hi Jerry,
I recently bumped into your weblog and have enjoyed reading your SOTA
adventures. I have similar interests. You mentioned that you have an adapter to connect your hiking pole 1/4″-20 threads to your Buddipole VersaTee. Could you tell me where you found this little gem? Thanks!
Ralph
K5RWP
Plano, Texas
wa9jst@aol.com
I ordered those from Buddipole.
73,
Jerry