Category: Parks on the Air
December 31, 2022
I did a lot of stuff with the radio club this year, I wrote a Year in Review about it on the club webpage. My big radio things this year were going to the FCG Contest Dinner at Hamcation, usually it's on the same day as the club meeting. I got to meet quite a few people I knew from on the air and…
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December 12, 2022
Made a quick stop at K-8348 on a drive across the state to do an activation. Didn't have tons of time, got 12 contacts then had two people call on top of each other for 5 minutes straight so that I couldn't copy either of them and both responded to any partial call I gave, so I packed it up. Nice…
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December 4, 2022
We had another SPARC in the Park event with the club. Decent turn out and lots of contacts got made. There were a few more people than this, I should've take more photos
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November 20, 2022
Stopped on my way back from a trip to Jax. Really nice brick road into the forest and the dirt road were in great shape. Unfortunately it started raining about 10 minutes after I got setup so I cut it short with only 12 contacts.
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November 20, 2022
Stopped for some POTA today. Had a good pileup going on CW and someone kept sending "ID" and I was like why does this guy want me to treat Idaho special. Then I thought maybe that was part of his callsign so I sent it back to him. Then I finally realized I hadn't sent my call in awhile so I sent…
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May 19, 2022
Once in Ohio I stopped at Lake White State Park, this was in close proximity to a highway so I figured it would have cell services so I could spot myself and get a pileup going. I was able to get about 40 contacts in less than half an hour here. Not a great park, more of a boat launch that's under…
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May 18, 2022
My next stop on the way to Dayton was Weavers Bend in the Cherokee National Forest. This was a great drive from the previous site in Georgia through the mountains into Tennessee. This site is 6 miles down a dirt road at the end and right on the French Broad River. There's a train bridge in view…
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May 17, 2022
I drove up to the National Convention in Dayton, OH this year and stopped on the way in Georgia and Tennessee to camp and do some Parks on the Air Activations. My first stop was Lake Conasauga in north Georgia. This lake has a fairly traditional campground, which I normally avoid, but it's way out…
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April 24, 2022
We had another SPARC in the Park event at Sawgrass Park in St Pete. A couple more new people came so I think it's worthwhile. In total there were about 10 people. I made 20 contacts, mostly as a demo for the new people. Then W4WYR came with the fox and we had a fox hunt. This was my second fox hunt…
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April 22, 2022
I took the day off to get a IEEE tour of the Manatee Solar Battery, the world's (currently) largest solar powered battery. Solar battery, photo from the middle, it goes on just as far in the other direction, and there's two rows like this. These are the inverters. On my way home I stopped to…
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