Video Killed the QRP Star
he well-known proverb, “In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb,” best describes my March this year. Being a native Michigander, I am accustomed to tending to the surprises Mother Nature tosses my way each spring and this March was no different. Like clockwork, a late winter storm brought high winds, freezing rain, and snow which wreaked havoc with my antennas. A cursory inspection after the storm showed that the 12-gauge wire used for my horizontal sky loop is frayed in some locations and that the support mast for one of my inverted-V dipole antennas is cracked. This same storm also turned my driveway into an ice rink where I managed to twist my leg and sustain a knee injury. Fortunately, the end of March went out like a lamb, with Mother Nature easing off on severe weather and Ol’ Sol providing a few more sunspots which provided good DX on the upper HF bands for the CQ WPX SSB contest. The Solar Flux Index during the last week of March peaked at 156, an improvement from earlier in the month, putting
