I activated US-8878, State Game Land 181. It’s my 39th unique park activated on my way to the next award at 40. I made 11 FT8 contacts at 2-4W with my speaker-wire doublet pulled up into a tree. I had extended the length to 44ft length per some online recommendations.
The battery was low on my little Evolve 3 laptop, and I wanted to charge it from LiFePO, but it wouldn’t charge. It turns out that I had inserted the barrel adapter into the headphone jack instead of the tiny power port. The laptop had died at 9 contacts with 3 people calling me, so I switched to my other laptop to finish up.
10M tuned OK, 40M tuned OK, and 20M tuned easily, but with both laptops, the radio would drop the USB connection immediately upon transmitting. I may need to add a current balun between the radio and matching transformer.