Category: Parks on the Air
November 30, 2018
I've got some sick days I need to use so I took one today and activated K-1909 Oscar Sherer State Park outside Sarasota. About a 50 minute drive to get to this one. Super nice day. This park seems like it's mostly a rest area for the old rail line bike path. I setup inside a pavilion. It wasn't…
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November 30, 2018
A year ago today my original callsign(KX4HL) appeared in the FCC database after 9 long days of waiting. It's been quite a year, as of this morning I have 2411 QSOs. Here's some of my QSO cards: I've moved from just a wire antenna to a hex beam on the roof, put up a 2m antenna, built a AMSAT…
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November 15, 2018
Received my Parks on the Air Bronze Activator certificate for activating 10 different parks today.
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November 13, 2018
I didn't realize I had Veteran's Day off until Friday so I planned some POTA activations. I started out at K-3607 Beker Wingate Creek State Park. This is just some scrub land for hiking, not really a park. I did pretty good and made 42 contacts here. Hit behind some sort of hunting perch or…
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November 3, 2018
Now that it's cooling off a little I'm getting out there to do some POTA activations. This weekend I did Little Manatee River State Park, about a 40 minute drive. This park seems gear toward horses but there weren't any there this weekend so I had the horse area to myself for radio work. This was…
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September 9, 2018
I brought my HT on vacation with me to Ireland. It was a very full vacation so I didn't bring my HF gear. It would be a great place to activate though, maybe another time. My brother and I climbed up the mountain in Connemara National Park near Clifden. At the top I made some calls and was able to…
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August 16, 2018
It's too hot for activating parks in Florida so I went on the road. I was heading to a music festival and made some stops on the way to activate a few parks. Unfortunately there was flooding in the town next to the music festival which contaminated the water and they were forced to cancel the…
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May 11, 2018
Activated 2 parks in north Florida while camping this week. K-4472 Osceola National Forest from the Ocean Pond campground and K-1902 Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park. Not too many contacts but the state park was mostly DX. Both spots had good views. K-4472 Osceola National Forest - Ocean Pond…
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April 7, 2018
I joined up with N1COR and WU2F to activate Egmont Key State Park K-1863 for the Florida State Parks on the Air event. I've been to this park a couple times and thought it would be a great place to activate. It's only accessible by boat, we took the ferry from Fort Desoto Park, see my Not POTA post…
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March 31, 2018
This was a fun one. I went out to Terra Ceia Preserve State Park. It's less than a 30 minute drive and not much of a park, more of a swamp with a dirt road you aren't allowed to drive on. I had a failed attempt at an activation in Big Cypress due to being too close to the powerlines I think so I…
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