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US-0795 World War I National Monument

 I was able to hop over to this park twice, once before, and once after work. Operating portable with a vertical antenna netted me almost no foot traffic attention which was kinda surprising and also kinda nice.

This will all get updated as I go (or not)


Park:

US-0795 World War I National Monument

Getting There:

I walked to the park from my Mt. Vernon Square area hotel. I took transit back though! I walked up a few blocks to the nearest metro station and took the Red Line east where I connected with a northbound Yellow Line to Mt. Vernon Square, the end of the line for that train.


Radio Details:

I used the rig's new configuration that's getting me into  so many urban parks: TouCans and a Stick. Trees on the East Coast seem to have more branches that the ones in San Francisco, so I was able to just place the vertical in the tree with no tape. The branches held it up. The tree still had most of its leaves and was quite wet. I suspect this was the main difference cause of propagation getting so much better at the Pennsylvania National Historic Site less than 200 yards away on the same street, Pennsylvania Avenue NW.

Antenna mount detail:




QSO/RBN spot map:




Happenings of Interest 

The biggest happening was that nothing happened. No one really seemed to realize that the rig was there. The cabbies behind me chatted along with each other. You can hear the min some of the QSO recordings. It originally, in the morning, looked to me like buildings were blocking some propagation, but it appears to have been more of a time of day thing as QSOs to the Northwest started top pop up when I returned in the late afternoon.

QSO Log

Table containing QSOs in text

Callsignrx RSTtx RSTTime (GMT)Frequency
na2b3395592024/12/16 09:08:0014057.4
k5ohy3295592024/12/16 09:30:0014057.4
ac4fs5695592024/12/16 09:35:0014057.4
kf9rx5595592024/12/16 09:37:0014057.4
wd4dan5595792024/12/16 09:51:0014057.4
w9ee3395592024/12/16 17:02:0014057.4
ws9j5795992024/12/16 17:12:0014057.4
ad9ca2295392024/12/16 17:14:0014057.4
w4wts5995992024/12/16 17:18:0014057.4
aa5uz3393392024/12/16 17:25:0014057.4
k1vp5794392024/12/16 17:26:0014057.4
n2qw5595592024/12/16 17:30:0014057.4
kc5f5595792024/12/16 17:31:0014057.4
k4qpr4495792024/12/16 17:33:0014057.4
ki1h4495992024/12/16 09:52:0014057.4


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