Category: cw
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Autumnal GOGA Rove
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…
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Asilomar State Beach
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…
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Delta Double
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…
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Corte Madera Marsh Ecological Reserve
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…
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Scenic POTA 3-Fer
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…
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Sonoma State Historic Park
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,…
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Golden Gate Park POTA
Golden Gate Park is a 1,017 acre city park separating the Richmond and Sunset neighborhoods in the western half of San Francisco. Although large and internationally known, GGP is a city park and thus does not qualify for a Parks On The Air reference. The park is a two minute…
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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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Ham ‘n Cheese
You’d be forgiven for assuming all the posts on this website are either related to Parks On The Air (POTA) or Summits On The Air (SOTA) activations, but in fact, this blog is simply about “outdoor amateur radio.” Today’s activity was just such a case of not POTA and not…
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Outdoor Radio For The New Year
The new year means time off work and the opportunity to overindulge in amateur radio activities. With no antenna installed presently at my home QTH, all of my operating must be done in the field. For January 1st, 2024 I was able to complete two POTA activations at local parks.…
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