Spring Creek Forest State Park (Again Again)
I could not make the trip to Dayton this year but I did sneak out of work an hour early so that I could stop at K-4423 Spring Creek Forest State Park for a quick POTA activation. Propagation was pretty good from my Jeep using the mobile setup - Yaesu FT-100D, ATAS-120a and 100W. Worked Spain, Puerto Rico and several Canadian stations. Thank you hunters for such a good pile up- yesterday was the first time I had to resort to the "Call Area X" only to hear thru all the calls! I also worked W8BI Dayton Amateur Radio Association club station. They were operating from the event and confirmed, yes there IS something drawing a lot of HAMs to the Dayton area this weekend! This year marks the 70th Anniversary of the Dayton Hamvention. https://hamvention.org/ As a result I worked a lot of mobile and portable operators who had set up at Dayton. Good reports from all on 20m SSB. I made a rare for me P2P SSB contact with K4NYM (Bill) who normally operates on CW, and his second op KB3WAV