Getting on the air at Kodachrome Basin State Park

We had known before we arrived that there would be no cellular signal at Kodachrome Basin State Park. The reviews indicated that there was good WiFi at the camp store/ranger station, but nowhere else in the campground. It also indicated that Starlink would be good there -- so we had planned to use Starlink. Carl activated service with Starlink via the app on his phone when we were in Page, AZ, and he put "dishy" up when we got to the campground. He had a couple of configuration changes that he wanted to make to the setup inside of Gracie, but soon we were "on the air" with internet and phone service via Starlink, at least when we are near the rig!

He also had enjoyed using his ham radio set up at the Grand Canyon, so he decided to "throw up" (that's the term he uses!) a couple of antennas to see if he could get on the air with his ham radio from Kodachrome.

One attached near the front corner, bungee corded to the driver's side mirror. This is a 20m dipole antenna using 2 20m ham sticks. "20m" indicates that it is tuned to work with the 20m band.

A picture from a little further back -- you may be able to see that he is using our RV outside step upside down to stabilize the base of the antenna.

Another one, with a magnetic mount, he put onto our power pedestal box (the picnic table beyond belongs to the site next to ours). The antenna needs to be on a backplane. This is a 10m vertical.

Carl found that the 20m antenna works well at Kodachrome Basin State Park, but he could not get any signal from the 10m antenna. He determined that this was probably because we were in a "basin" (canyon), and the 10m band is more line of sight and therefore does not transmit into a canyon. He was able to make several Parks on the Air (POTA) contacts on the 20m band.