Thanks for the QSO and being featured in your video. I was using the Bencher straight key. I am an active SOTA chaser and activator. For my SOTA activations I use the SW-3B (5w) rig or an FT-818 (6w) to end-fed resonant wires or linked dipoles. Stay well & 73! Mike, WB2FUV

Tom! I can watch this all day long... Thanks for subtitling the code.. awesome QRP.

Great QRP outing Tom, you did just fine. I like that you do not edit your mistakes. lets everyone that's thinking about doing what you are doing but afraid to screw up, know that we all do it. I've been on cw since 1960! and I still screw up ! its human nature. No one will chatise you for it. anyone with any kind of salt will appreciate you for it. As for the 1.3 SWR now you know why I've said in the past comment here and there. that a resonant antenna is better off than a non-resonant one with a tuner to load it up. you are getting more power to the antenna without the tuner. I'm not disputing tuners. on the contrary. but if I got my druthers of using one vs not! I'll take the not each and every time. especially running off 9v batt. and qrp the way you were. not having the tuner in line, added few more milliwatts to the antenna for sure. and at QRP! every little bit helps. great job Tom thank you so much for doing it and for sharing. 72! gud dx de Ellis WA1RKS

I’ve watched your videos for years… I learn from your field deployments. The equipment, the tips & tricks, the mistakes, the fails, and the successes. It’s how we best learn… thanks for Field Ops 101! (At the graduate level). Now it’s time to get out, and teach someone else what I’ve learned… make some QSO’s, improve my skills, and have fun.

Nice contact! Seems like the guy wanted to talk forever. That's the cleanest Jeep underside I think I have ever seen hi hi. Thanks for sharing. KE0RPU

You are the man. You have the patience of Job, but fortunately not his luck. Always good to see you out doing what you love to do and are good at doing. It seems that you have been under stress the last few months. Perhaps I am mistaken.

Nice video Tom, I am glad I found your channel again. Great park BTW

Great qso tom . ..you probably already know this but it helps to have a little cheat sheet with things written on it that you want to say, it takes the pressure off

Great outing Tom. Awesomeness!

Another great video. Thanks, I really enjoy your outings.

nice video, really liked the 'live cw decode' ... helped revive my rusty code skills.😁

Thank you Tom, great video, I have the same problem when I try to ad-lib and sometimes get mixed up when using the crib sheet, but it’s great fun, as your video shows, it is really exciting when you get a call strait back. 73 de G4ISS john

Excellent intro!

Really a nice video Tom. Loved the intro with the camera shot of the undercarriage of your Jeep......that was neat. Great job with the MTR3B. I had one, but sold it . I might just have to look for another one. Keep on keeping on! Love your videos. 73, George K2WO

Awesome video. I have an original mountain topper 3b that i received as a kit. I put all the surface mount parts on. It was a challenge but turned out very good. Thanks for the video.

Awesome contacts! Thanks K7WHN

Great video. Can’t wait until I master CW.

Sweet!

Great QSO, I have the same whip(s), I bought the Chameleon CHA TDL (Tactical Delta Loop), when I setup the anteanna as a vertical I use their transformer with the whip and one 25' counterpoise. It tunes up on 80 down to 6. When I use it in the delta loop configuration it's NVIS with 80 and 40. I'm glad you're having great success with the 17' whip as a stand alone with no tuner. I have seen that you can adjust the whip to match impedance to 50 ohms without a tuner. 73 de AI5DD

That was a really cool QSO. WB2FUV is across the Hudson River where I was born and raised. Hope I catch him on the air someday, myself.

Greetings from Katy, Texas - W5SWX

Excelent Qso. 👍😃❤️

Giveya credit for hanging with that qso. I’d have TU tnx for the qso, 73s. A long time ago. Lol.

I buy the annual pass for Virginia state parks too. I have a lifetime pass for National Parks (veteran perk). Nice contact! Very motivating! I need to start the CW training again.

Good qso

Excellent and loved the camera intro - you have gopro or ? Thanks for posting - I really need to get out there and my little QRP rigs on the air again - been too long. AI6OU

Simply Outstanding !!! Just one question for my info, did you tune the radials properly or just cut em roughly for 20m..TNX

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Miss you Tom.

Great video Tom, thanks! Any chance of Custom Tiers on you Patreon page, for more than $3 ?

I looked at the Mountain Topper rig. The end of that was the word “kit”. My hands have age related tremors. Can’t hold an iron steady. I will purchase a kit someone has made already, but can’t make one anymore. I even have big trouble with connectors so I but already made pigtails and runs of coax. Enough complaining. I do read about your equipment mentions below your videos and try to purchase what you use.