Homebrew ATU Roundtable: L-Match, T-Match & Antenna Projects

So Tobias, you are out of town still.

So let's let's hear from you first.

What do you say? Okay.

Well, I guess, should I go backwards? I'll go backwards.

On Monday, my wife and I did currently, I think, our longest hike, day hike.

We went out and did, it ended up being 29.7 kilometers, so like 18 and a half miles with almost 2000 meters of ascent.

It was about 6,400 feet.

We started, we knew it was going to be a big day.

But it was one of these things that we wanted to hit three big summits.

But if we didn't go for the fourth big summit, then we'd have to do all of the distance to get back out there just to do the fourth summit.

So we kind of lengthened the trip by a couple of miles just to do this all four summits that we wanted to hit.

These are all Munros, so they're Scottish hills.

They're over 3,000 foot with the correct elevation separation and everything, of which there are 282.

And I think we've done about 65 now.

But yeah, it ended up being an 18-hour day.

According to my watch, I burned 8,000 calories on the activity.

So that's about probably 10,500 calories total, which is not something that you can consume.

But it was absolutely fantastic.

Apart from getting near the end of the day by about nine o'clock in the evening, I was mentally really struggling with the amount of time we'd been out, which is really cool because that means that I now know that I'm actually really fairly comfortable and confident for about 12 hours.

But that was three sodas that day.

I did all three on two meters, got a good number of two meter sideband contacts.

The last one would not have been possible if the local guys had not been waiting for me.

And it was a struggle even doing that.

I think I got my longest distance on two meter sideband doing something like 183 kilometers or something, which is pretty good.

But yeah, since the last podcast on six sodas, that was three of them.