Category: Activation
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A Pleasant Evening with the KH1
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,…
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Silver State Signals
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…
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Utah Revisited
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…
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Doing Time in Wyoming
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…
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Postcard from Colorado
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…
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Western States POTA Roadtrip
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,…
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Summit And Park On Angel Island
Angel Island State Park sits in San Francisco Bay, separated from the town of Tiburon by a ten minute ferry ride across Raccoon Strait. The island is also accessible by ferry from San Francisco’s waterfront. Nearly all of the island is part of the State Park, so you can activate…
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Coastal Canyon POTA
Most of the canyons between the Pacific and Skyline Drive in San Mateo county are private land or regional open space. However, if you head up Higgins Canyon Road, past several farms you will come to Burleigh Murray Ranch State Park, POTA reference US-7376. This park, acquired by the State…
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UK POTA Rain and Shine
Bletchley Park Most readers of this blog are probably familiar with Bletchley Park and the significance of this place in breaking the codes used by the axis military forces during the second world war. The electromechanical systems developed and used here to aid the codebreakers in their daily work led…
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Black Point Battery At Fort Mason
The spontaneous HF radio operating enabled by the new Elecraft KH1 handheld transceiver opens up a whole new set of opportunities for the POTA activator. Combined with the sprawling Golden Gate National Recreation Area (US-0647) you could do an awful lot of POTA activations and not operate from the same…
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