US NC 6947 #39 Sandhills State Game Land
My first activation today since my birthday on June 18. I made 10 Morse code contacts and 1 SSB in Maine. Good to get back into it. I used my hamtenna vertical. Notice my fancy mobile set up.
85 minute exposure
Rockingham, NC This is an 85 minute image I made from my Seestar S50 telescope. I believe thus is my longest exposure I have made.
Compare this to the 18 minute exposure
IC 5070. 85 minute exposure
IC 5070 67 minute.
Explanation: The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (the official designation) is divided from the larger North America Nebulaby a molecular cloud filled with dark dust. The Pelican, however, receives much study because it is a particularly active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The featured picture was produced in three specific colors — light emitted by sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen — that can help us to better understand these interactions. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming the cold gas to hot gas, with the advancing boundary between the two, known as an ionization front, visible in bright orange on the right. Particularly dense tentacles of cold gas remain. Millions of years from now, the Pelican nebula, bounded by dark nebula LDN 935, might no longer be known as the Pelican, as the balance and placement of stars and gas will surely leave something that appears completely different.
NC US-6947 #38 Sandhills State Game Land
IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver
MFJ Model MFJ-969 Deluxe Versa Tuner II antenna tuner
KO4FSZ dot com custom made antenna
23 SSB Contacts No CW contacts
Thanks for a successful birthday activation. It was a hot one. What you do on your birthday you will do throughout the year! I use the manual tuner because it works! Thanks for all the hunters including France and p2p and Hunters! Some how my wrist started giving me issues and my yl suggested I wear the brace for the activation. I guess it worked not feeling any pain!
NC US-6947 #37 Sandhills State Game Land 19 contacts. Today was a training day The student got more contacts than me. I am honoring his request to be anonymous on facebook but thanks for the hunters and p2p. More strong mobil signals and one good QRP.
And after I got home we had the Northern Lights display
IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver
Blue Micro Morse Code Key W/ Aluminum Base
MFJ Model MFJ-969 Deluxe Versa Tuner II antenna tuner
KO4FSZ dot com custom made antenna
3 CW 47 SSB
Weather was iffy a few sprinkles but cleared off. The clouds made seeing the ipad easier. So just a word of encouragement if you are trying to learn CW. Keep up with it. Find someone to get on the air with it. When MO came in today that was a hoot!
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I got N1CC in two parks now!
NC US-6947 #35 Sandhills State Game Land
IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver
MFJ Model MFJ-969 Deluxe Versa Tuner II antenna tuner
KO4FSZ Endfed
Blue Micro Morse Code Key W/ Aluminum Base
Trying to get back to being a regular activator! I decided to use my laptop tent for my radio. Thanks to the hunters and p2p. 31 Phone and 1 CW.
NC US-6947 #35 Sandhills State Game Land
IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver
MFJ Model MFJ-969 Deluxe Versa Tuner II antenna tuner
KO4FSZ Endfed
Blue Micro Morse Code Key W/ Aluminum Base
In the video below you will hear a typical morse code (cw) contact between an activator (n4mqu me) and (KY4GP in Florida) we gave each other 59 signsl reports.
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My first real telescope
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Next step
Adding it to my Celestron 8
NC US-6947 #34 Sandhills State Game Land
The rain forecast made me to decide to operate from the car today using my MFJ Short HF Mobile Ham-tenna. 13 contacts mostly p2p but did make a couple of contacts by calling cq on 15 and 40. I activated US-8010 yesterday. The parks join each other but they are not a two for. I had good reports on my signal today. Thanks for the contacts. In the video I said 35th activation actually 34th.
Fancy mobile installation
NC US-8010 #39 Mckinney Lake State Fish Hatchery
Fun to get back to the park funny how you forget things when you get away from it. 25 contacts. Including Jamaica and Tarboro and Rockingham. I got a tent for my iPad. It got to where I Couldn’t see the screen. My first activation in a month. Hope to get back to being a regular.
3 CW
49 Phone
IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver
LDG AT-200 PRO II Antenna Tuner
MFJ-1984HP, ENDFED 1/2 Wave 40-10M
Blue Micro Morse Code Key W/ Aluminum Base
Great day for an activation. Started out cloudy and cold but ended up sunny. This is the third activation for me. Had two sets of visitors approach me. I got to tell them about amateur radio and gave them my card. As you are setting up just be aware of your obstacles. If I get too carried away I could slip into the ditches around the area. The antennas location doesn’t look like a dream antenna but I enjoyed the signals. This is in North Carolina. Thanks for the hunters and p2p.
