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After a couple of months delay, the much anticipated, new Mountaintopper MTR3B-v4 arrived in my mailbox this past Friday. This post is about my initial experience with this new radio. As soon as I could dip out from work, I took the new Mountaintopper down to the shores of San Francisco Bay for a 00UTC
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Part of the San Francisco Bay Area’s World War Two history is situated at Richmond on the Contra Costa shoreline. Here are the shipyards where the women and men on the homefront built the Liberty Ships that carried troops and materiel to the Pacific theater and beyond. Occasionally, my family enjoys to take advantage of
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Nestled beside the bridge on the north side of the Golden Gate is Fort Baker, a former military post that is now home to museums, yacht clubs and the U.S. Coast Guard. Getting on the air from Cavallo Point at Fort Baker is one of my favorite ways to activate the Golden Gate National Recreation
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Back in May of 2023 I visited San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge (US-0212). At the time, I was escaping the cold and drizzly weather in San Francisco as described in this earlier blog post. There aren’t facilities here to support large groups so I was pretty confident that the place would be overlooked by
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After all of the families and tourists decided to call it a day, it was time to head out to The Presidio of San Francisco (US-7889) for a little bit of POTA fun with the Elecraft KH1. I parked on Lincoln boulevard across the street from the National cemetery. Here, an old pre-WWI gun battery
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The final day of driving on our recent western states road trip found us waking up in Winnemucca, Nevada. Growing weary from days on the road but refreshed after a night’s sleep we once again pulled onto I-80 West. Up to this point I had never activated a POTA reference in the state of Nevada,
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This trip across Utah was on the return leg of our western states road trip that took us as far east as Colorado. Our first time in Utah, several days earlier, followed a route further north in the Logan area through the Cache Valley. On this return leg, we spent the night in Salt Lake
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On our first trip across Wyoming a few days before, we did not stop for POTA because we had places to be and a lot of driving to get there. Nevertheless I had noted several potential historic sites that I could activate if I had the time and energy. Our return trip was on a
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If you are a ham or SWL of a certain age, you can probably recite from subconscious memory the twice hourly message on WWV that ends with the station address of “two thousand east county road fifty eight, Fort Collins, Colorado, eight oh five two four.” Well, here I was in Fort Collins but unfortunately
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This is the first in a short series of brief field reports on POTA activations while on a weeklong roadtrip through several states in the western U.S. The trip would follow Interstate 80 from San Francisco, over the Sierras, through Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming to Fort Collins Colorado. And back, mostly retracing the same route.
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