May 29, 2020
Last night I completed the CW Academy Advanced class, which is the 4th CW Academy class I've taken. I highly recommend the CW Academy for learning morse code. The reason it worked for me is the accountability. There's 4-5 other guys in the class, and it's a video chat so they can see you, and it…
Read more →
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…
Read more →
May 2, 2020
I saw someone else posted their CQ WW contest certificate so I checked and I had two, I got 1st Place Rookie - Low Power in North America in the CQ WW SSB 2019 contest! and 1st Place - Rookie in the #4 Call Area for CQ WW CW 2019!
Read more →
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…
Read more →
April 29, 2020
I had a great time with the Florida QSO Party over the weekend. Normally a bunch of us do the contest from the club station, and we won Top Florida Club the last two years. With the antenna damage and the virus we weren't able to do that this year so I used my home station. I ended up with 403…
Read more →
April 15, 2020
Brief update: I've mostly been practicing CW during this stay-at-home order. We did the club meeting via 2m this month, that went ok. The weather's been really nice, it's a shame all the state parks are closed. Yesterday my cheapo web hosting server crashed and that was the last straw with them so…
Read more →
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.…
Read more →
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…
Read more →
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…
Read more →
March 1, 2020
I've completed my 3rd CW Academy course and signed up for their final "Advanced" class that will start in a month. These classes use the online video conference program Zoom. We had 5 students, 1 instructor and 2 associate instructors. Everybody made it through this one which is good, it's a hard…
Read more →
