Category: Parks on the Air
April 3, 2022
This year again I activated parks for the Florida State Parks on the Air event with Corey NF4Q. Corey registered the SES callsign W4E again which really does make it special. We did Terra Ceia State Park K-3663 again and Little Manatee River State Park K-1898. On Saturday at K-3663 we had very…
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January 15, 2022
Drove up to the Florida POTA meetup at Colt Creek State Park K-1848 which is also inside Green Swamp Conservation Area K-5330 so it counts for 2 parks. Right when I got there a few people were making UHF/VHF contacts with each other that count for park-to-park, so I got 42 park-to-park contacts in…
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October 9, 2021
We activated K-6700 Sawgrass Lake Park which is one of the newer added Parks, in St. Petersburg, with the St Petersburg Amateur Radio Club. We got quite a few park-to-park contacts and we'd have everyone send their callsigns out so we gave people quite a boost to their P2P contacts. Billy KN4LUZ…
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September 2, 2021
While I was in MA I had time for an activation. There's quite a few state forests next to eachother but I picked Mount Grace. This was a quick activation, I made 14 contacts with 2 park-to-park.
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September 1, 2021
On my way from the Adirondacks to Massachusetts it was a bit rainy but I had time for an activation. I was looking for a spot in the Green Mountains park to activate but the rain was coming down pretty heavy due to the remnants of hurricane Ida coming through. I passed a dam that was in Townshend…
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August 31, 2021
After visiting my old friends in my hometown, I had a week before I went to a wedding the following weekend in Mass. I spent the week camping in the Adirondacks. The first couple nights I camped way out in the woods and had trouble getting my signal out of the trees. I made one really clear contact…
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August 29, 2021
I visited my friends in my home town of Binghamton, NY and had to activate the first state park I'd ever went to while I was there. I spent a lot of time here over the years. I made 18 contacts with 4 park-to-park. This park was pretty crowded but I found a quiet spot to activate.
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August 23, 2021
I did a road trip to the northeast and stopped at Gettysburg on the way for an activation. I'd been to Gettysburg a few times with the Boy Scouts when I was a kid. I got there in the morning and there were very few people there, especially for the size and number of parking lots. I activated in one…
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May 13, 2021
I've been kind of neglecting the POTA activations. Had my first business trip in 14 months so I stopped on the way back from Miami for an activation. This is nearby a couple other Wildlife Management Areas that I've already done. It was hot and muggy so I only made 14 CW contacts. My signal wasn't…
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April 5, 2021
I joined up with Corey N4FQ again for the FLS POTA Event. We activated Terra Ceia Preserve State Park K-3663 on Saturday which is pretty close to my house. I had activated this one before but we went further in this time. We found a good spot and wound up with 169 contacts. N4FQ invited some…
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