HF Portable

My portable HF Station set-up on the deck. A Yaesu FT-817 running on internal batteries + Auto turner, fed into a vertical 'Pro Whip' that I picked up last year in England. Propagation was pretty good that evening, with strong signals from Australia and the US.

Country Life

It has been hot all week in Pucon, Thursday was no exception - not a good day for lugging firewood around but we took delivery of a lorry load the night before which they dump at the edge of our property. The ~1.5m logs had to be cut and stored; even with two experienced laborers with a chainsaw, it took us 6 hours to complete the task. I used my truck to ferry the cut wood to our storage area. One thing for sure is that I'm glad I don't do this every day for a living as it is brutal on the back!