Curiosity if a great thing!

What use is an F-call? During the week I had the opportunity to work a rare DX-station using the antenna farm of one of the clubs I'm a member of. The 10m, 6 element beam at a height of about 10m or so worked great with my radio and the contact was made within a couple of minutes. I then got the idea to try a different antenna, a friend has a 10m, 5 element beam in storage in his shed. We went to a local lake, put the beam together and strapped it to a 3m mast and guyed the contraption with some rope. Using the Arm-Strong rotator, we managed to pick up the same DX station and made another contact. Both contacts were done with 5 Watts SSB, using my 857d and a battery. The second set-up was on a grassed area, the car was parked under a Morton Bay Fig tree, nice and shady, with little local interference, except that all of a sudden, around 3:30pm, we found ourselves surrounded by mothers and children. Turns out that there was a local school, not 200m from our location. Wide-eyed children plucked up the courage, or their mothers did, and came up to ask what we were up to. A picture is worth a thousand words, so we turned up the radio volume and listened to stations around the world. Curiosity is a great thing and several mothers recommended we contact the school to do some demonstrations there. It's now on my to do list. Wonderful talking to curious minds, talking about skipping stones on the water, radio waves, the Internet, the sun and the ionosphere, there should be more of it. I'm Onno VK6FLAB