Yesterday was a very nice day so my long suffering wyfe and I set out to do an activation. Instead of the usual large scale British-mountain-climbing-expedition style of gear I only brought the bare essentials necessary to activate from my car. It was in the low 50’s F (about 11.5 C or those who use a proper temperature measuring system) so the pod was not necessary. We decided to operate from the car for the first time. We did it as sort of a practice for vacations when we will be activating on the road. I used my Buddistick antenna which only requires a tripod, a strip of copper mesh for the ground, a 1 gallon jug of water as a weight and some coax. We went to Kings Gap and got set up in a very short while. As I was setting the antenna up, SWMBO went for a short walk and took some pictures. Once the antenna was in place it took only a couple minutes to hook up the radio and tuner and find an empty frequency. I showed my wonderful wyfe how to log and we were POTAing. It didn’t take long to make the required 10 for a bonafide activation and soon I decided to switch bands. All in all I worked 40 and 15 Meters, had 2 Park-to-Park contacts, 1 hunting and 1 hunting me, and made a total of 32 contacts in about 1/2 hours. At one point I had to open the car door as it got too hot in there. We had some curious looks from people driving by and there was some work going on by a couple of men driving skid loaders with smelly exhausts, but all in all it was a great day and a very successful experiment. Namaste for now, kidlets.