In today’s episode, I take my RS-918 or Ailunce HS1…whatever… and the SOTA Beams 20//30/40 Bandhopper antenna out in the field to activate Pine Log State Forest K-4635 for Parks-on-the-Air. 11 contacts were made and had a nice 5 mile hike around the forest.

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Music credits:
Autumn Sunset by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…)
Artist: http://audionautix.com/

Acoustic Guitar 1 by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…)
Artist: http://audionautix.com/

Camera equipment:
GoPro Hero 8 Black
Canon Vixia HF R800

Editing software:
Corel Videostudio Ultimate 2018

My favorite radio equipment for outdoor portable ops or RaDAR:
Radio: Yaesu FT817nd
Tuner: LDG z817 auto tuner
Antennas: Chameleon F-Loop magnetic loop antenna (does not need a tuner)
End fed antenna with 9:1 unun (needs tuner)
MFJ 1899T telescoping whip antenna
Wolf River Coil Silver Bullet 1000 w/ buddipole long telescoping whip
Interface for Digital modes: SignaLink USB
Digital software: FLDigi and WSJT-x

Catch me outside, how about that. 🙂

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