Copasetic Flow

 In addition to some interesting ham radio happenings, there were fighter jets and hummingbirds. Stand-alone cameras rock! Park: Mt. Davidson in San Francisco:  W6/NC-423 I used the best-for-me-for-early-morning-transit route I mentioned in my last SOTA report  for this summit. I also used my Google Pixel phone to record the actual slope of the hike up from the bus stop. You might remember that I took umbrage that Google claimed the route was almost flat.  Today, I measured it using the 'degrees off kilter' display on my cell phone. The slope is a wopping 12 degrees. Hardly flat. Here's what the world looks like if you take a picture of the 'mostly flat' sidewalk: Radio Details and Gear: I saw that the  qrper.com  trip reports include a gear list. I hadn't ever thought about it before, so I figured I try it out. Interesting, or no? Radio: A green board Rockmite 20. You can get the red board kit at  QRPMe . Antenna: 12 gauge wire cut to a half-wave dipo...

The automated QSO mapping project can now handle p2p POTA and s2s SOTA QSOs. It does this, for the moment, by accepting two optional fields at the end of each QSO line in the .csv file the app uses for input. Those two fields contain the latitude and longitude of the SOTA/POTA station. When they are found, they are used immediately , rather than the geocoded information for the QSO receiving station. Here's the feature summed up in video This is the SOTA log the map is based on. I indicated which QSOs were S2S in my notes Here's the map with s2s locations denoted: and here are a few examples that show the summit to summit feature in action. The map to the summit is overlayed with the map to the home station: AA7OY and KT0A