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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 Callsign tx RST rx RST Time (GMT) Frequency n7jtt 579 419 2024/11/05 16:21:00 14057.4 n0aie 449 529 2024/11/05 16:21:00 14057.4 k6pb 559 ...