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…

Drove up to the Florida POTA meetup at Colt Creek State Park K-1848 which is also inside Green Swamp Conservation Area K-5330 so it counts for 2 parks. Right when I got there a few people were making UHF/VHF contacts with each other that count for park-to-park, so I got 42 park-to-park contacts in about 5 minutes which was fun. I met quite a few people I’ve seen on the Facebook group. I didn’t setup my stations since there were so many going already. I got a brownie with my name and callsign on it.