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The last days of October can sometimes bring early season rains to the San Francisco Bay Area, a perfect time to get out for some POTA action. The Golden Gate National Recreation Area is a huge National Park with a ton of good places to do Parks On The Air activations. This particular outdoor radio
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In early October we took a couple days off work for a mini-vacation down the central coast of California. Just past Monterey, in the town of Pacific Grove, is Asilomar State Beach and conference center – also designated US-3399 for Parks On The Air. The conference center is part of the California State Park system
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Sofar this summer, most of my activations have been at tried and true parks close to home, so there is not much to say about them. But on July 27th, I had the motivation and opportunity to go further afield in the quest to activate new-to-me parks. The first stop on this pair of activations
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Normally when the YLs ask if I want to join them on a jaunt to a shopping center my answer is a quick “no thanks.” However, the Corte Madera Town Center is right across the highway from a possible outdoor operating location which I’d earlier identified as Corte Madera Marsh Ecological Reserve so this time
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Sometimes when doing a POTA activation, the scenery makes you stop and take a picture or two. This particular QTH is enclosed by three National Park POTA references: The radio was connected to the Gabil GRA-7350T vertical on a mag-mount. This antenna setup lives in the trunk of the car for ready deployment. The activation
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This post is about activating Richardson East Benchmark for Summits On The Air as well as Golden Gate National Recreation Area for Parks On The Air. The route taken today was the same as on a previous hike up to Richardson Benchmark. Please allow me to refer you to that blog post for hike and
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Muir Woods is named after naturalist John Muir who can be said to be the father of our National Parks in the US. This park is not far from my home in San Francisco, but has eluded me from activating for several years. The main attraction at Muir Woods are the giant redwood trees accessible
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Vollmer Peak is a one pointer situated in the hills between Oakland and Orinda, California. The “trailhead” is at the overflow parking lot for the Redwood Valley Railroad, a fun narrow gauge railroad just off Grizzly Peak road in Tilden Park. You can walk to the peak via a paved access road. There are a
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The town of Sonoma, about an hour north of San Francisco by car, is a location steeped in California history. In fact, the current US State of California can be said to have originated here. In the middle of the 19th century, before the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, this region was under the
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Working from home means that when the weather is clear, as it was today, I can walk a couple of blocks to my local city park and try to make a few contacts on the radio during my lunch break. In the middle of January it’s nice to get a little sunshine on your face
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