Today’s post will be a little unusual as I wanted to take some time to talk about the solar eclipse that we experienced here today. Northeast Ohio was under the path of the eclipse and I couldn’t miss an opportunity to see an event like this as we will be in 2444.
I took some vacation today and packed up the truck this morning and headed out to Waverly Place Park in Lorain, OH. I got a decent parking spot and set up my camera gear and my radio gear.
I had intended to test out my new AnyTone AT-5555N II 10M radio. But when I went to hook it up to my battery I realized that I had forgotten to attach the spade connectors to the battery cable and was unable to test it. I was able to test the new Quad Band Antenna I had purchased.
With my trusty AnyTone AT-778UV hooked up I was able to reach the North Coast Amateur Radio Club 2M repeater in Brunswick, OH, about 24 miles to the southeast and it sounded very clear on my end. I was also able to make three contacts before the eclipse started on 146.52MHz as well.
The eclipse finally can and the pictures from before and after the totality were not as clear as I would have liked due to some light thin clouds. But I get some very nice pictures of the totality.
I had seen a partial eclipse before, but never a total eclipse. It was extremely beautiful. All together I would consider today to be a very successful day and I hope to one day get to see another total eclipse.