We have been enjoying the nice autumn weather in these parts. 70 degree days, dry with very low humidity, endless sunshine, and 40 degree nights. It doesn’t get much better than that. The farmer’s have been taking full advantage as harvest time is well underway with all the fields being gleaned. It’s the most wonderful time of the year in the Heartland.

I’m still exploring the Elecraft K4, discovering its many features, while usually running a whopping five watts up the wire. I worked about a dozen stations that way yesterday. One of those was WB0RLJ who I have worked eight previous times according to my log. In this case, Jim was activating the Chalco Hills State Recreation Area (US-4011), a little southwest of Omaha, Nebraska.

What I didn’t know at the time was that he was activating the park using his handheld Elecraft KH1 transceiver with whip antenna. I discovered that later when I watched his video of that activation. It’s rather interesting hearing/seeing your signal being received on the other end of the lash-up.

Thanks to this video, I also discovered there is an ADIF utility from VE2ZDX that apparently parses a log file to find specific call signs in a YouTube video. At least that’s what it appears to do. I don’t make videos so you will have to work that one out for yourself, but if you look in the expanded “more” section of this video you will see the call sign of everyone Jim worked during this activation with a URL pointer directly to each specific QSO time in the video.