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 and I was able to find it this time. Though it was made easier due to the park only really having one direction you could hide it. Photos by N2ESP

I took the day off to get a IEEE tour of the Manatee Solar Battery, the world’s (currently) largest solar powered battery. On my way home I stopped to activate the Terra Ceia Preserve Frog Creek addon. I’ve activated the main Terra Ceia Preserve a few time, this is just down the road and a separate entity. From the looks of it, it’s mostly a place where people walk their dogs. It was windy and I had trouble with the hard packed sand ground holding my rope tripod of the 40ft mast (tipped over twice, which doubles my total lifetime tip overs). So I switched to the Wolf River Coil….

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 humid weather with a possible storm but we were done before the weather started. This time we only went about 1/4 mile into the park versus the 1+ mile we did last year. We had a visit from John who heard about it the night before at the SPARC meeting. On Sunday we activated Little Manatee River…