2021 Road Trip - August 30, 2021 1450UTC - EN16 Complete, EN15 South Dakota tonight

The EN16 North Dakota activation is complete.  There were several request to activate South Dakota so I have driven back to South Dakota and will activate the following grid overnight (local time):

  • EN15KA20IO - Moonrise August 31, 2021 0519UTC - 2M EME 144.132 2nd JT65B

This is the log for EN16 North Dakota.  The log is uploaded to LoTW.  At the beginning of the session I believe the signals on my end were consistently the strongest I have ever heard.  A waterfall of speaker audible signals.  The day before there was very heavy rainfall in completely flat corn fields.  This type of soil has very good RF properties (for dirt) particularly when wet.

Most of the signals were well-spaced which made it easier to find signals with fewer retransmissions.  Thank-you.

 

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