SOTA Madness - 250+ mi 2m CW and ZL S2S 

It's pretty awesome. QRP is fun but run a little power with a good antenna and stations just come out of the woodwork. It's awesome. 😎

Get 'en while they're hot!

It's pretty amazing what you can do when you set up a station on top of a multi-thousand food "tower" in a spot with very little noise. Too much fun! Thanks for the kind words.

Lol yes, i was editing that up and was like... Oopsie. Got a little excited there. 😆

Thanks! I use an in-line audio recorder like this, and usually just use the "monitor" function to headphones for listening. Set the recorder to the "music" setting and input for "line level". amzn.to/3RCFVAU For this video, I had some extra audio recording shenanigans going on as well. I was using a special headset with a jack I added to output RX audio to the recorder, and a lavaliere mic. Those two are routed through a tiny mixer board I designed which pads the line level audio down to mic level. It then sends the RX audio to one of the stereo channels of the recorder, and the lav mic audio to the other. That way I have two independent channels to mess with in post processing. That's overkill for most cases. The basic in-line recording is normally sufficient, and then I just use the camera audio for anything I say.

That's a plenty capable station for sure. Occasionally it's just fun to see what's possible.

@@K6ARKyour station is awesome. I just know it’s too much for me to carry

I didn't weigh it, but for this excursion, I would estimate 35 lbs or 15 kilos.

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I don't remember specifically, but I usually run 50 watts on CW with that rig