What did I want to accomplish for this portable operation?
What would make things better if it happened, but no worse if it didn’t?
One week before the event I visited http://cqp.org/ and looked for unclaimed counties.
So I sent mail to the contest organizers.
I’m interested in operating from Stanislaus County. I would prefer to operate from a nature-oriented location somewhere near highway 120, as that’s how I would travel from my residence in Alameda County to visit family, but if there are better locations elsewhere I would like to hear about them.
Certainly the members of the Northern California Contest Club would know something about portable operating spots!
Any ideas [name redacted]?
I took a quick look at Google Earth, and there seems to be a nice little park called Orange Blossom Recreation Area about 4 miles east of Oakdale…GL, I’m going to need STAN myself this time.
Glad to hear you will going to Stanislaus…Maybe someone on the email list will have a suggestion for a good location.
East of Modesto on CA-132. A (metaphorical) stone’s throw from the Tuolumne River.
CM97qpA local grandmother who brought her two grandchildren said the lake was very full!
With Extremely Sophisticated (cough) Radial System.
Dog tax! Meet Misty, my parents’ 8-pound toy poodle, who wouldn’t smile for the camera.
CM97pt and CM97qtThe covered bridge, viewed from the south end.
The office building across the path from the mill.
Panorama of the bridge, from underneath on the west side. It does not actually curve.
Looking up the Stanislaus River in the morning.
CM97osA few miles north of Oakdale on county highway J14. Takes up a lot of CM97nu.
So where to operate here?
This looks like a pleasant spot, even if we’re not operating.
Flimsy camera tripod not falling over in the wind, thanks to a nearby bush.
The antenna hasn’t fallen over after a few minutes, so let’s try to make some contacts!
No visitors all day! Well, almost.
Written in a dialect of Markdown
Built with Pandoc
Styled and presented by reveal.js
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Map page source code: not public yet, maybe some day!
TNX 73 ES GL