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This activation took my XYL and myself on a Saturday drive from chilly San Francisco to the lazy autumn warmth of Sonoma county and Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park (K-3531). Our visit started with a little reconnaissance of the site’s historic adobe building and grounds across Adobe Creek and up a low hill from the
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With the autumn days getting shorter and shorter the amount of time available for an “after work” Parks On The Air activation is shrinking, at least if daylight operations are desired. Adapting to this seasonal change, I’ve started doing more midday operating from K-7889. It’s nice to break up the work day with a little
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The weekend of October 21-22, is the autumn Support Your Parks Weekend for Parks On The Air (POTA) and I fully intended to participate. The plan was to go up on Mt. Tamalpais (K-1178) and activate from one of the picnic tables near the East peak parking lot. Early Saturday morning I had noted that
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Back in July of 2022 I got skunked attempting a POTA activation of the Point Reyes National Seashore netting only four QSOs from the Bear Valley picnic area. Like MacArthur, I vowed to return and finish the job of completing an activation from this national park. The plan for today was to first hit the
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In this modern era of radio technology, where even analog radio is largely digital, we amateurs are accustomed to perfect signal quality all the time. Nevermind the perfunctory 599s that are handed out during contests, for activities like Parks On The Air and Summits On The Air I believe most of us like to send
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This is the weekend in October that features the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels taking to the skies over the Bay Area. The air show takes place over the Bay waters, which means the beaches and shorelines around San Francisco will be packed with people and traffic. Since my usual POTA operating location is right by
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A later arrival at my usual spot and an hour and a half of available operating time meant that if propagation cooperated I could get some “late shift” activator QSOs into my POTA stats. Late shift at K-7889 starts at 0200Z and my first contact of the evening was a quick park-to-park with WB0RLJ at
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Richardson East Benchmark is the name given to the Summits On The Air (SOTA) peak located in the Marin Headlands above Sausalito, California and just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. The prominence, at an elevation of 1,111 feet (339 meters) makes it a good spot to locate some commercial service and broadcast towers, with
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When you activate the same park regularly it becomes rather routine. You probably have a system worked out consisting of radio, antenna, time and location that produces good results most of the time. Not every one of my outings to K-7889 Presidio of SF gets a writeup here on this blog, that would get boring
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Amateur radio operations from K-7889 for me is as much about just getting on the air as it is about adding to POTA tallies. When you work from home and your QTH features S9+ man-made noise levels then a little POTA operation is a great way to get out of the house and make some
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