Pretty exciting, Arnold, glad to hear it!
We were mostly lightning-stormed out for a good part of the day here
in S.W. Missouri. But we did get our "Wide Load" sign strung up in a
dipole configuration. It has pretty good ears on 20-meters. It was
pretty close to our Buddipole in terms of how we heard other stations.
We never tried transmitting on the Buddipole so we have no TX
comparison.
We only worked one Canadian station up BC. We heard him 59 and he gave
us an honest 55. We heard other stations the most exciting of which
was a Hawaiian station and a couple United Station stations. But
couldn't break the pile ups, for them.
Looking forward to seeing what Sunday will bring!
Good luck to you in Atlanta!
73-Erik Weaver n0ew