Category: postcard
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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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