KA6U Update - May 3, 2023 -  0300UTC

Today I drove from the Rocky Mountains above Denver CO to Iowa east of Nebraska City, NE.  700 miles 11 hours.

It was very windy and I almost did not try to set up 23cm dish.  The wind calmed down, I set up the dish but the PTT isolation box from the radio broke so no 23cm from Iowa.  AC0RA has a station identical to mine and he lives in Iowa for 23cm.

15 difficult 70cm QSOs today with many polarity changes.  Focus for today was to help UT6UG get to 49 states on 70cm and W2HRO to 46 states.  That was successful.  Hopefully both will complete WAS on 70cm before I return to Florida in 3 weeks.

LoTW certificate issue I will figure out tomorrow.

Operation plan for this week subject to change:

• Kansas/Nebraska - May 4 (UTC) - 0100-0300UTC - EM19, EN10 - I visited this location last week and activated on 23cm and 70cm.  I will do a short operation on 222 first starting at 0130UTC.  I will not do 70cm.  I plan to also operate 23cm.  The site is a 1 hour drive from my hotel in Iowa
• SD/MN - May 5 (UTC) - 0200-0400UTC - EN13 - I also visited this site last week.  The focus of this stop will be 222, 23cm and 70cm for Minnesota.  I do not plan a full operation since this is a repeat of last week
• North Dakota - May 6 (UTC) - 0200-0400UTC - EN16 

Peter KA6U