​March 2, 2013.

After successfully worked with XT2TT last night on the 160m from my countryside low band position, I decided to activate at least one new YLFF area on the way to coming back home. The weather was cool - 12C and snow cover throughout about 50cm. It was clear that will be impossible to park the car somewhere off the cleaned road, and so  it should be a place where I could work from the road edge. Once parked, looked for place to throw the antenna up and sat up the working position. After less than an hour everything was ready for activation. With a portable antenna New Carolina Windom covering 40-10m bands and IC756PRO-III I was ready to go.

At first everything went fine, but slow. After a first SPOT on 30m pileup was too big and I had to work with the split. Unfortunately, this was also ARRL SSB contest weekend and operation on 40 or 20m SSB at least in that morning was quite difficult. But all in all things went well, and after two and a half hours 177 QSOs were made. At a position dismantle some curious happened. While antenna was moved to trunk, through the windscreen of the car on a road some 40m away I saw a beautiful fox. While I got my camera, that was tired of waiting and had gone to his business. Only got photographed from a distance.