August 16, 2018

Parks on the Air activations

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 festival.  Huge bummer, but at least I got in some camping and ham radio. First I activated Uwharrie National Forest in North Carolina.  I stayed at the West Morris Mountain campground.  There were only two other people there and one of them was heading to the same music festival.  He ended up meeting up…

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August 9, 2018

13 Colonies event QSL

I received the QSL from the 13 Colonies event.  “Clean Sweep” with the two extra stations.  This was a fun one.  This weekend I’m going on a road trip and bringing the radio.  I plan on doing some POTA activations so I’ll have some new content soon.

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August 1, 2018

New QSL cards

I received a QSL card from a contact with NASA.  I also made a contact to Hawaii during the IARU HF contest.  Unfortunately this guy doesn’t used LOTW and Hawaii is the last one I need for Worked All States.  I’m going to look into getting it check in person but they way I read it, they don’t link in person cards to LOTW. This is a great card I got from Latvia.  Love the pic with the radio and dog.

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