Category: Parks on the Air
June 29, 2020
Since we were unable to do the multi-club event at the fire station this year, I planned a camping trip to a POTA park with my g/f for Field Day. I wanted to do some primitive camping but at a place where you can park at the site. This type of camping is pretty rare in Florida. I found that Ocala…
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May 22, 2020
I took a day off from work and decided to get out for an activation. This park takes only 2 turns from my house but is around 45 mins away. I scoped it out via google maps and went to the North entrance as I prefer to activate in out of the way locations. I used my foldup cart to haul the gear via…
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May 2, 2020
Finally got out of town, probably should have just been doing parks this whole time, there was the normal (large) amount of traffic on the Skyway bridge heading over to Parrish, FL where this park is. This is one of the newly added Wildlife Management Areas in Florida and it hadn't been activated…
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March 17, 2020
We had 15 people show up for the SPARC in the Park event. I brought my Wolf River Coil and setup the KX2 and FT-891. I mostly played with the KX2 CW paddle as I hadn't tested it out yet. It will take some getting used to. I made a POTA contact and one contact with Billy KN4LUZ in the parking lot.…
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March 6, 2020
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…
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March 5, 2020
This is a big park right next to K-4634 that I activated previously. This park is 120 square miles and has basically one road going through it, James Scenic Drive. This is the road I thought I could get to from K-4634. Quite a few cars drove (maybe 6) while I was activating. I'm not sure what the…
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February 17, 2020
This was my first activation where I got the required 10 QSO's using CW. I was sitting on a bench so I wasn't the most comfortable working the key but I got it done. I seem to have an issue sending CQ POTN instead of CQ POTA. I'll figure that out eventually. This part of the trail I went seemed to…
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February 15, 2020
This park is a popular boat launch site. It was drizzling a little when I arrive so I turned on the lightning detector. It didn't give any warnings and the rain cleared up. I was trying for an all CW activation for my second time. I got 9 over more than an hour, mostly out west, then I woke W4MMY…
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February 13, 2020
I've been setting more and more challenging goals for my Get On The Air goals for my CW Academy Intermediate class I'm taking. This weeks goals is to do some POTA activations using CW. I made 4 contacts with CW on this activation. I was going for 10 but I stopped getting responses to my CQ's so I…
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November 29, 2019
I'd been saving this one for a nice day off. Alafia River State Park has a great system of mountain bike trails, probably the best in Florida. I've been here once before to go riding. I tried to take some videos with my phone on my handle bar phone holder but it came out too shaky. You can see some…
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