November 29, 2019

K-1829 Alafia River State Park

I’d been saving this one for a nice day off. Alafia River State Park has a great system of mountain bike trails, probably the best in Florida. I’ve been here once before to go riding. I tried to take some videos with my phone on my handle bar phone holder but it came out too shaky. You can see some videos of the trails here, https://alafiatrails.com/

After doing some riding, I had lunch and then setup the radio. I used the Wolf River Coil on 40m first. I could hear people really well but they weren’t hearing me. I got 5 contacts pretty quick, but then nothing so I setup the spiderbeam mast for 20m like I usually do so that I could get the rest of the contacts for the activation.

Wolf River Coil setup in the field
contacts from K-1829

On the map, you can clearly see the closer contacts I made on 40m and then the contacts I made on the 20m band.

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