Had a guest from out of town so we took them to Honeymoon Island State Park for a nice day at the beach. Temperature was in the mid-60s and sunny, which made for a perfect day. I started on 20m and immediately got contacts without self spotting or posting to the POTA facebook group, which is a really good sign. I met one of the volunteers at the park who is also a ham. Invited him to the club’s winter field day in a few weeks. I switched to 40m after an hour and got 3 park-to-park contacts but not much else. Overall came out with 77 contacts.

I’ve got some sick days I need to use so I took one today and activated K-1909 Oscar Sherer State Park outside Sarasota.  About a 50 minute drive to get to this one.  Super nice day.  This park seems like it’s mostly a rest area for the old rail line bike path.     I setup inside a pavilion.  It wasn’t non-stop contacts but pretty close.  I got a few in California and one from Portugal.  Plus a part to park contact.