New England weather has been fairly mild the last few winters, especially in December and early January. The weather gods indicated mostly sunny skies and temps around 40 for New Year’s Day, so it seemed like an excellent time to head to a new (for me) park: Camp Cronin Recreational Area (K-10542), which is on the southern coast of RI, near the Point Judith Lighthouse.
I decided to run SSB to make logging a bit easier (juggling a laptop and a paddle for CW is always not-fun). Despite some rather strong ignition noise from other cars around me (running their heat, no doubt), I was able to make 26 contacts rather quickly. My wife walked our dog Jaclyn while I was on the air and took a nice photo of the car with the full size 1/4 wave vertical for 20-meters:
That’s the Atlantic Ocean about 10 feet in front of the car, looking toward Africa.
