Last Saturday being PI Day 3.14 on the calendar and with still major
remnants of cabin fever after what seems to be a very long and never
ending winter I decided to head out to a place South of Thunder Bay
towards the ON/MN border.
The site is located off of Memory Road
and is a slight walk up to the top of the hill and from there is a
beautiful look at Pine Bay and Lake Superior.

The
wind was quite strong but at 4C and bright sun peeking through the
clouds made this outing a great one. I snowshoed in as the snow was
soft but had to take them off when I got to the hill for the last part
of the climb to prevent sliding down. Once at the top the view is
awesome, there is also a Shrine that was built many years ago now and
serves as place for people to go and share some thoughts I guess, as
well on the way up are benches for resting with the words, LOVE,HOPE and
FAITH on them, As well there are various pictures of Jesus carrying the
cross.

I
brought my PRC-104 with me and the PRC-74 antenna with counterpoise and
figured that since we were in the time frame for both RaDAR and the
HFPack roundup on 18157.5 I would call CQ if the band was not busy, I
used cw first and was able to work KC5UN, after that I worked WB4ETT on
voice. I then tried the other bands but no joy. I then went and checked
into the MMN on 20 meters on 14.300 and checked in with NCS.

- PRC-74 antenna

- PRC-104 Radio
So
once again another good day to take the radio out and enjoy the day and
just to get out. The video of my outing can be seen on my YouTube
Channel at:
https://youtu.be/jqNisI8stDc
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