March 6, 2020

4 POTA activations in one day!

I planned on doing one activation, seeing how I felt and then maybe doing another. My first planned activation was K-6310, the Holey Land Wildlife Management Area. A bunch of new Wildlife Management Areas were recently added to the POTA list of parks in Florida. This was the first activation of K-6310.

Holey Land is located about 6 miles down a nice paved road off US-27 which is an alternate route I sometimes take back from Miami instead of Alligator Alley. Shortly before the entrance to this area there’s a nice boat launch that I thought was the spot.

Looking at the map I needed to go a little further to get into the WMA. There’s another much crappier boat launch that looks like it was used as a party spot/shooting range that I used to activate.

Close up of the bullet holes in the gate
went right through

When I arrived at K-6310 I saw a WMA sign and went that way, I found that it’s another WMA, and also one of the newly added parks, K-6301. It was really close to K-6310 so I activated that one also.

Way back there on the left you can see the K-6310 sign

After this I felt motivated and two new parks were added near K-4633 Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest that I had previously activated and was on my way(sort of). The first was K-6318 Okaloacoochee Slough Wildlife Management Area, which is across the street from K-4633. I forgot to take the picture when the antenna was up.

The “No Vehicles on this trail” signposts make good antenna supports

I tried some CW at this one, I ended up getting a Park-to-Park and another one before I switched to SSB. I ended up with 5 Park-to-Parks at this one.

Just down the road from here is K-6323 Spirit-of-the-Wild Wildlife Management Area. I let people know I was moving so I picked up many of the same calls again when I moved. My car’s thermometer said it was 93F out so I made it a quick one.

Great day of POTA

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