May 23, 2022
I attended the national convention in Dayton, OH for my second time. The convention had been cancelled the last 2 years. I stayed at the Hope Hotel where the contest events were being held. First thing I did was purchase a Begali key after trying them all out. Begali Sculpture Janus, the Ferrari of…
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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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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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February 21, 2022
Put in about 8 hours on the ARRL DX CW contest this weekend for 212 contacts. This is my 2nd favorite after the CQ WW CW. Tons of people on the air, the rarer stations all had thick pile ups, I didn't get through to Kenya or Morocco. The pile ups didn't make a lot of sense, there would be 20 people…
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February 19, 2022
SPARC Meetup at Hamcation 2022 FCG Contest Dinner FCG Contest Dinner speaker Ed N4OC
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February 4, 2022
Solar ham radio bike w/Starlink https://youtu.be/Ow89u\qqNxk
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