{"id":122,"date":"2020-06-17T01:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T05:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/km4blg.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2020-11-26T12:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T16:05:57","slug":"same-band-different-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/17\/same-band-different-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Band, Different Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier today, I visited Sevierville, TN to test for my FAA Drone Pilot license. The test went well, and, after grabbing a quick lunch; I had a bit of time to spare. Since I was already this far, I decided to make the 30 minute drive over to Greentop (W4T\/SU-076). I arrived at the summit to find tower crews working on one of the nearby cell towers. They went about their way, and I went about mine. I grabbed my radio bag, and climbed the fire tower. Since I didn&#8217;t have a lot of time, and with previous success on this summit on VHF, I decided to set up on 2m. I clipped my roll-up J-Pole to the inside of the fire tower&#8217;s cabin, and connected it to my Yaesu FT-818.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Success came pretty quickly, with 7 contacts on 146.52 FM right out of the gate. At this point, the contacts were starting to slow down a bit, and KG4LMW; my first caller of the day, wanted to try SSB on 2m. Having only worked 2m SSB once or twice before, I was eager to take this opportunity. We quickly moved to 144.2 USB, and made our second QSO of the day. Even though I was running a vertically polarized antenna, I decided to continue calling CQ and picked up 3 more contacts. At this point, things were yet again starting to wind down, and I was running out of time if I was to make it back home for my evening Zoom meeting. I quickly packed up my gear, climbed down from the tower, and started down the mountain; just as rain was just starting to set in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All-in-all, I found 2m SSB to be an excellent addition to my SOTA &#8220;bag-o-tricks&#8221;. It&#8217;s certainly something I am looking forward to utilizing in future activations. It am interested to determine its level of success in less populated areas where VHF isn&#8217;t always optimal. So, where do we go from here? 2m CW? 70cm AM? The possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until next time, 73.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200616_153251-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200616_153251-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/km4blg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200616_153251-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/km4blg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200616_153251-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/km4blg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200616_153251-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/km4blg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200616_153251-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>View from the top of the fire tower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, I visited Sevierville, TN to test for my FAA Drone Pilot license. The test went well, and, after grabbing a quick lunch; I had a bit of time to spare. Since I was already this far, I decided to make the 30 minute drive over to Greentop (W4T\/SU-076). I arrived at the summit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[21,30,29,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km4blg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}