Category: pota
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Contrasted Landscape
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…
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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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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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