N9OHW

Keeping it simple. #Elecraft #KX1 to a random wire by the San Francisco Bay. #qrp

Last POTA QSO tonight was to @coizne JL1FYL at JP-1197 Inbanuma Prefectural Park, park to park 5,148 miles from my park in the SF Bay Area. 17m CW at 5 Watts and good signals both ways. Thank you, Masa-san!

Flight of the Bumblebees FOBB QRP contest from the San Francisco Bay.

Sunset POTA activation on Mori Point in Pacifica, south of San Francisco. The sun made a brief appearance through the fog for this photo. 73 de Mike N9OHW

Flight of the Bumblebees FOBB QRP contest from the south end of the San Francisco Bay. Elecraft KH1 at 4-5 Watts to a 29’ sloper. 28 QSOs and 16 Bumblebees worked. Perfect July South Bay weather.

Somehow VK4FW heard my 4 Watt KH1 and 29 foot wire from the San Francisco Bay. 17m at 20 mins past local sunset. Strong signals both ways.

POTA activation above Mori Point at Pacifica, CA. Cold and foggy here and sunny and warm just a half hour south. Bands improving after the X class flares.

ARRL Field Day underway with the KH1 and a 40m EFHW. 1B SCV. Great conditions to the east coast on 15m from California. #arrlfd #fieldday

Copying the ARRL Field Day CW bulletin in Sunnyvale, California. Let’s go! #arrlfd

Put the KH1 on the QRP Spartan Sprint at the San Francisco Bay. Used the 33-foot counterpoise as an end-fed antenna thrown up over a tree branch and the 17-foot counterpoise on the ground. 5 QRP QSOs coast-to-coast. Later, worked VK2IO on 17m doing WWFF in Australia!

The QRP Spartan Sprint was so Spartan, I ended up listening to beacons. CS3B on Madeira heard at 100 mW longpath to California!

POTA activation with the Elecraft KH1 at Fort Point next to the Golden Gate Bridge. Best DX today was to Maine!

The best time of day for radio is also the best time of day for mosquitos!

Fixed my 22 year old FT-817ND encoder with Deoxit. If your encoder is old and jumps all over, this may be a cheaper and easier solution than a replacement. Still a great rig!

Thank you Tet-san for the P2P QSO @JF4IQS ! KH1 at 5 watts to the whip antenna at the San Francisco Bay at sunset. You had FB signals on 15m tonight. 73 de Mike N9OHW

SOTA activation on Mt. Umunhum near San Jose, California. The big cube building was a 5 Megawatt radar site from the Cold War. The NCDXF beacon W6WX is transmitted from the antenna farm in the second photo. It gave the KH1’s AGC a workout.

SOTA activation at Coyote Peak in San Jose, California with the KH1. Got contacts on all 5 bands 40-30-20-17-15 and 4 S2S. A pack of 3 coyotes sneaked up on me while I was concentrating on CW in my earbuds! They ran away when I turned the speaker on.

Worked ZL1BYZ on the KH1 at sunset on 15m. John was on a summit at Manukau Heads in New Zealand 6500 miles from me at the San Francisco Bay!

Trying for the huge FM satellite multiplier in winter field day. ISS pass in a few minutes. CM87 in the middle of Silicon Valley.

CQ winter field day. 1O SCV. 5 Watts on 40m to a 33 foot wire. 50F out by the San Francisco Bay.

Winter Field Day 1O SCV. 63F and sunny. QMX+, vertical, and 40m EFHW.