Archives: 2018
November 16, 2018
Today I hit 100 confirmed DXCC entities, with Iceland being my last one. I almost had Iceland before with FT8, only got half the QSO with a guy named Odin before it faded. I've picked up the last few on 17m FT8. Now I just need someone to confirm Hawaii on LOTW and I'll have Worked All States as…
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November 15, 2018
Received my Parks on the Air Bronze Activator certificate for activating 10 different parks today.
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November 13, 2018
I didn't realize I had Veteran's Day off until Friday so I planned some POTA activations. I started out at K-3607 Beker Wingate Creek State Park. This is just some scrub land for hiking, not really a park. I did pretty good and made 42 contacts here. Hit behind some sort of hunting perch or…
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November 13, 2018
At last weeks meeting of the SPARC Club they had a couple 2m radio, I picked up the Icom for use in my shack. Over the weekend was the yearly SPARCfest, where I picked up a 2m antenna. I put it up against my fence on some of the military camo poles I have left from Hamcation. I got on the SPARC net…
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November 10, 2018
I entered into the WAE (Worked All Europe) RTTY contest. This one is a bit different in that you can send QTC (traffic which consists of your previous 10 QSOs) fo extra points. You get points for working anyone but you only QTC with people in a different continent so signal is important when you're…
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November 3, 2018
Now that it's cooling off a little I'm getting out there to do some POTA activations. This weekend I did Little Manatee River State Park, about a 40 minute drive. This park seems gear toward horses but there weren't any there this weekend so I had the horse area to myself for radio work. This was…
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October 29, 2018
I had a little time on Friday night and Sunday afternoon to do the CQ WW SSB contest. I ended up with 60 contacts. This is a super popular contest. It seems like there was someone calling CQ contest every 1kHz. It's a 48 hour contest so people put up some serious numbers, claimed first place was…
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September 20, 2018
I got my QSL card for the Armed Forces Day crossband test. AAZ Ft Huachuca is where they guy I bought my IC-7410 from works. This wasn't a very difficult test, basically just use split mode. It was fun to get a contact with the Pentagon and NSS, and also decoding the message in CW.
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September 9, 2018
I brought my HT on vacation with me to Ireland. It was a very full vacation so I didn't bring my HF gear. It would be a great place to activate though, maybe another time. My brother and I climbed up the mountain in Connemara National Park near Clifden. At the top I made some calls and was able to…
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August 16, 2018
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…
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