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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am pretty sure that my signal didn’t get heard on that antenna as he was activating Stoddard Slough Wildlife Management Area (on the eastern side of Francis Peak which was another good thing for me).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Wayne<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>@KC1ONM@mastodon.hams.social<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"I can never shake the thought [lebertarians] are actually a secret troll society that poses as a religiously fanatic sect of 'Contractual Freedom'." - LennStar (mrmoneymustach.com forum, 2023-04-12)<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Lizzie DeMarco <lizzie@lizzie.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 17, 2023 4:05 PM<br><b>To:</b> Wayne Geiser <geiserw@gmail.com>; bars@w1hh.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [bars] Thanks KN7D!<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><img width=640 height=424 style='width:6.6666in;height:4.4166in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01DA1973.08CDF620"><o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 11/16/2023 2:14 PM EST Wayne Geiser <<a href="mailto:geiserw@gmail.com">geiserw@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Yay!<br><br>I finally got a QSO from Utah confirmed on LotW. It was the last state I needed to get “Worked All States” using SSB with my 100W and a dipole. It took about a week longer than a year after I put my station together to accomplish it! Lawrence was POTA at Stoddard Slough State Wildlife Management Area (north of Salt Lake City). 12M was dead, so I didn’t have to compete with other closer / more powerful stations.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Now I have to work harder to get the 8 DX entities I need to get DXCC with the same constraints!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Wayne<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>@KC1ONM@mastodon.hams.social<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>"Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him." - George Santayana.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________ bars mailing list <a href="mailto:bars@w1hh.org">bars@w1hh.org</a> <a href="http://mail.w1hh.org/mailman/listinfo/bars_w1hh.org">http://mail.w1hh.org/mailman/listinfo/bars_w1hh.org</a> <o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></body></html>