I was lucky enough to be able to get out the morning of May 15th, 2020 and activate Little Dixie Lake Conservation Area in Missouri. It was a time-limited activation. I wrapped up just before noon. I used an Elecraft K2/10 at 15 watts of transmit power into a home made trapped vertical quarter-wave antenna. The traps were the 100 watt models from SOTAbeams. The antenna was made for 20,30, and 40m operation. One radial with about 12ft run of RG-58 coax. The one radial ran directly away from the coax. The base of the antenna was at ground level. Power was provided by a Bioenno 12v 12Ah battery in a PortableZero case.
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Below are some QSO maps showing the contacts that were made with the vertical antenna. Red are phone contacts, green were Morse Code contacts.
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| 20m contacts |
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| 40m contacts |
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