06/14/2004 | W8CM I traveled from the Dallas EM13 area to Childress, TX to give 6 meter contacts from rare (at least to me) West Texas grid DM94. Sitting under a big shade tree in a city park with an HO loop at 9 feet above ground, IC-706mkIIG, and a 100AH gel cell battery did tend to make me appreciate the home station kw and stacked long boom yagis, hi,hi. Music to my ears was the return comment "thanks for a new one!". Sure got to walk the dog a lot between "openings" - looking forward to the sunspot cycle upswing. -- W8CM