I caught a message about the Run for the Bacon event being last night. I’m not a member of the Flying Pigs but I was looking for something to do after a lazy afternoon of football watching. I setup the long neglected KX3 powering it with a slowly failing battery. I used the 17-foot ground mounted vertical, set the power at five blistering watts of CW, and settled in to see if I could work a few piggies.

Never heard a single FP call. Not even one. But the time wasn’t wasted as there were POTA and special event stations available and I worked a few, including NA7DO who was activating a park in Washington State. His 20 meter signal was just a whisper at this end, practically ESP level. I figured he wouldn’t hear my peanut whistle, but he did, and the 1898 miles between us were breached.

Two other POTA stations are in the log, AK0A and N0FRC along with W6P, a Route 66 SE station in St. Louis - a cracking good time at the key!

QRP always makes radio more fun. I need a tattoo…