I'm such a bonehead.

Yesterday, I came down to Pittsburgh, switching out with Melanie for  
the next couple weeks (for those who don't know, Alena's spending the  
summer in Pittsburgh at a rehab place while she gets her tissue  
expander expanded before they replace the skull she lost last November  
with a plastic plate. It won't be fun. And Melanie and I are trading  
off spending a couple weeks each down here with her, and right now  
it's my turn.) Anyway, I had it all planned out. While Alena's napping  
or sleeping or doing something that doesn't require me (all the nurses  
love her!), I was going to sit on this handy bench out back, with my  
spiffy new Bluestar Antennas P1 portable vertical and KX1 and knock  
out a few Field Day contacts (because I've missed way too many field  
days).

Well, I got all ready and packed the antenna and the KX1 and a BNC  
adapter in with my Macbook in the Macbook backpack and left home  
yesterday morning. Yesterday evening, I thought, what the heck, I'll  
test this stuff out and see what happens.

...which is when I discovered that I forgot something important.

I forgot to pack coax. Moreover, I didn't even have my BNC to binding  
post adapter so I could just use a hunk of wire thrown over the swing  
set or something.

Man, did I feel stupid!

Y'all have some extra fun for me.

72,
de KB5ELV-ery unprepared