Category: quick take
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Quick Lunchtime Hunt
Working from home means that when the weather is clear, as it was today, I can walk a couple of blocks to my local city park and try to make a few contacts on the radio during my lunch break. In the middle of January it’s nice to get a…
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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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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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Warm Winter POTA at K-7889
It is not uncommon for California to experience a spell of warm weather in late January or February with temperatures rising into the mid-60s °F. This typically occurs when high barometric pressure builds over the eastern Pacific and into the Pacific Northwest, causing an offshore wind flow over California. With…
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POTA “Kilo” Note
The weather in San Francisco on Christmas Day 2023 was partly cloudy and dry, with mild temperatures in the upper 50s. Additionally, the space “weather” numbers did not contraindicate the likelihood of success for a low power radio activation. Rather than being a full field report, this post simply notes…
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Watch Your Tone
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…
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K-7889 Quick Take
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…
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