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Activating US-0757: Cable Cars, Project TouCans Vertical and Baywater Ground for AM Broadcasts

 I'm on a two day streak of activating US-0757 San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. 

This time, I was able to take a cable car to within 30 yards of the park. I hopped the Hyde Street cable car at Powell Street BART. It was a fun, easy ride that I take as often as I can get it.



After realizing yesterday that TouCans seemed to do better with its ground wire on the pier than it did with the thing in the water, I ran a few more experiments and watched the signal into Utah decrease as a the ground wire touched the water. Also, the interference from AM broadcast stations also became louder exactly when the wire dipped into the water. I ran most of the activation with the rig's ground wire laying on the pier next to me again.

I made more QSOs today, but all in all the signal levels were more contrite

Here are the QSOs

Callsigntx RSTrx RSTTime (GMT)Frequency
n7jtt5794192024/11/05 16:21:0014057.4
n0aie4495292024/11/05 16:21:0014057.4
k6pb5595592024/11/05 16:24:0014057.4
k5lg2294492024/11/05 16:34:0014057.4
w7dva339559 2024/11/05 16:37:0014057.4
wd6r559569 2024/11/05 16:43:0014057.4
kj7bs559559 2024/11/05 16:45:0014057.4
ne7rd229119 2024/11/05 16:46:0014057.4
n6pvm4495592024/11/05 16:50:0014057.4
wm6t559559 2024/11/05 17:06:0014057.4
w6bbd559599 2024/11/05 17:08:0014057.4
va7jcf4492292024/11/05 17:14:0014057.4
wt5o5695592024/11/05 17:15:0014057.4
af0e5595392024/11/05 17:21:0014057.4
k1lb449439 2024/11/05 17:22:0014057.4
ke7ke569559 2024/11/05 17:23:0014057.4
w7zdx559339 2024/11/05 17:25:0014057.4


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