My next stop on the way to Dayton was Weavers Bend in the Cherokee National Forest. This was a great drive from the previous site in Georgia through the mountains into Tennessee. This site is 6 miles down a dirt road at the end and right on the French Broad River. There’s a train bridge in view that I didn’t think much of until 4am when the first train came thru and then one came through a couple more times during the early morning so I just got up and made a coffee and restarted the fire. I had put up the antenna in the early morning and heard great signals from Japan and Australia but I wasn’t able to get a contact as they were rag chewing and had pileups going. Besides the train, this is an amazing spot. I did the morning CWT contest from here. This site didn’t have cell service either(neither did any of the towns around, took about 30 minutes when I left to regain service) so I struggled with getting a pileup going. This was the first time I used the hitch pole mount on my car for the spiderbeam and it worked good.
I left on Wednesday afternoon and then stopped at a dam I was driving by (not a POTA park) and used my FlexRadio remotely via my cellphone hotspot to do the 1900 CWT session. This spot looked a lot like K-3148 in MA that I did last year.
