Jim

@k4sgp.bsky.social

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EE, amateur radio, roller skating, backpacking, social dancing, and other random interests.

A map of the contacts completed. Stations contacted in Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Canada.
Firefly beetles illuminate the dark trees with small short flashes of light.
My snow covered open wire ladder line transmission line running out to the antenna in the back yard. Suspended 1m from the ground it appears like a miniature electric pole run.
My cat, Ellie, peering past the camera, sitting down on my shoulders.
A square loop wire antenna hangs from a wood dowel rod which has been placed over a window in the place of curtains. A short piece of coax feeds the antenna, on the opposing side of the square loop from an air variable capacitor. Through the window is a driveway, the view is from ground level.
Ellie on my left shoulder.
Chris sets up a loaded vertical antenna as snow blows around him. Street lights illuminating the parking lot that were in, at night.
Heavy snow falls as I check the antenna strung between my car mirror and a small tree 60 feet away.