Apparently the number of the counting is now three, except that I am still awaiting a LOTW upload from AC5O to get Louisiana off the list. I also worked N0GR in Iowa and he did upload to LOTW. I just need Missouri, Alabama, and West Virginia.
I tried several times to work AL and MO stations last night but was not successful. I'm more than a little irked that every time I get on the air, W1AW/4 is either working CW or working SSB phone in the low bands where I have trouble tuning right now. The other night there was a W1AW/4 station doing JT65 on 20 meters, but he was getting swamped by higher-powered stations and most of the time it was impossible to decode him. I could probably get him on RTTY or PSK31 but I haven't seen him there.
Anyway I will be out at Camp Belzer tomorrow to help where I can with WD9BSA's JOTA operation. I had hoped to have a go box ready to take out there with me so I could operate a third HF station at the camp, but the "box" itself, ordered last week through a third-party Amazon affiliate, apparently never actually made it out of the vendor's door (although a UPS label was apparently generated and they thought it had gone out the door) and I ended up with an unsolicited refund yesterday after they missed their guaranteed delivery date of Tuesday. So this time I ordered one from Amazon themselves (not a "fulfilled by Amazon", just "sold by Amazon"), and it's supposed to be here tomorrow. How nice.
Getting out to camp tomorrow ought to be interesting, because we were told that we had to be there before 6AM or we wouldn't be able to get into camp down Boy Scout Road until around 10:30. Why? Because the City of Lawrence is having a damn 5K run tomorrow and apparently Boy Scout Road is on the route. It's almost enough to make me go out there and camp tonight. Almost. Because my bones are too creaky to camp out in this weather.
Although — I just looked at the road closures sheet for the 5K and it looks to me like the only Boy Scout Road closures listed are
Boy Scout Road from 56th Street to Fall Creek Road 8:30am – 9:55am
Boy Scout Road from Camp Belzer to Fall Creek Road 8:30am – 3:00pm
and I don't see any closures of 56th Street west of Boy Scout Road at all; they seem only to be from Post Road to Boy Scout Road, which suggests that 56th will be open from 465 east to Boy Scout Road all day. I'm thinking that as long as I get there before 8AM I should be OK.
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* For me, the W1AW/0 portable operation in MO last week was a total wash. I never heard a single station. I might have to put my vertical wire back up.