Month: July 2023
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Summer Vacation Mountain POTA
Our family regularly enjoys a summer vacation in the mountains. There is no shortage of mountains along the Pacific Coast, but if you refer to “The Mountains” around our house everybody knows you are talking about 5500 feet up the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada along Highway 4 near…
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Ordinary Home Park POTA
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’d activated my home park of K-7889 The Presidio of San Francisco National Historic Site. So after work today, I collected some radio equipment and headed down to East Beach for a POTA attempt. I like East Beach because of the close proximity…
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Contra Costa Rove
Contra costa could be translated “other coast” and when viewed from west of the Golden Gate the hills along the east shore of the San Francisco Bay certainly can appear as another coast. So much so that mariners back in the days of sail might mistake the opening to San…
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Coastside Double POTA
Say what you want about California, its coastline is a truly spectacular display of natural beauty. On this first day of July, I headed down the San Mateo County coast in search of new to me parks in my quest to reach 20 unique parks activated. My plan was to…
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