May 6, 2000

Ron, WB3AAL trip to the Appalachian Trail

west of Route 183 on the

Berks and Schuylkill County line.

Camp off the Appalachian Trail

The solar station

Station in detail

Making a QSO with the Poqet keying the TT 515

Life can't get any better than this!

The AT looking East

The AT looking West

Ron's, WB3AAL, Equipment

Ten-Tec Argonaut 515 @ 2 Watts on 40 meters
and 1 watt on 20 & 15 meters.

Two 7.0 Amp hour battery solar charged
Uni-Solar USF-5 Flexible solar panel
Solsum 5.0X solar controller

MFJ Portable Tuner MFJ-971
MFJ Stereo Headphone & a cannon speaker
Poqet PC for keying and logging on Log Jr-EQF
NorCal Doublet, 26 feet of ribbon wire on each leg with a 24 foot feed

Good hiking workout on a hot spring day.