02/21/2007 | N4T / R This was my first real rover actvity. I have, over the years, been traveling during a contest and given out a few contacts. The plan was to activate 8 grids on the Natchez Trace Parkway from Nashville,TN to Natchez,MS using 5 bands. The old Ham adversaries of Murphy,time constraints, and weather whittled the effort down to 5 grids and three bands(6,2,70cm). I still was able to assemble a reasonable system of mobile and stationary antennas. It pays to assimilate the soapbox pictures and comments to get ideas! The Natchez Trace Parkway is a unit of the National Park Service like the Blueridge Parkway in NC and VA. With a 50 Mph speedlimit and no commercial traffic it made an ideal rover path. There are plenty of spaces to pull over and several nice open overlooks in the various grids. I made contacts from EM 65,64,54,53,and 52. Had a nice quick visit with WA4JA/R at the Tennessee River in EM54. As a bonus, the parkway's 70th anniversary of the start of construction is this year, so I obtained the special event callsign N4T. I learned how much goes into a rover adventure and will undoughtedly do better next time. Thanks to those who contacted me and especially to the ones who followed me grid to grid. -- W4RXR