Tag: POTA
-
Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 21
I finally activated US-1596 Seneca Creek State Park near Gaithersburg, Maryland via CW. That was a lot of fun and only took me three tries!
-
Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 20
Hello everyone. This week was another fun week of getting more CW experience under my belt, or shall I say “between my fingers”. Also, it was another week of buying a bunch of amateur radio stuff that I think I need. I gotta stop doing that.
-
POTA US-1596 – Seneca Creek State Park (MD)
I visited Seneca Creek State Park in Gaithersburg, Maryland again today. I’m slowly learning how to abate the onslaught of blood-sucking mosquitoes. Unfortunately, I am blood type O and…
-
CW Message Exchange Examples
In this post, I’ll be consolidating many of the well-known CW contest exchanges into a single location, perhaps mostly for my own benefit, but if you happen to have stumbled upon this article while trying to find…
-
POTA US-1306 – Lake Anna State Park (VA)
Based on finding out after I returned home from our Powhatan State Park camping trip in May that that park requires a special use permit for amateur radio operations, I called ahead to Lake Anna State Park to find out if I needed one for our camping trip there this month. As it turns out,…
-
Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 17
Lake Anna State Park now has K2MAS in the park activators list. However, once again, I only got my activation on FT8. This time it was not due to a lack of attempt. It was due to the scorching heat of our hottest weekend of the year so far. We had temperatures hovering in the…
-
Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 16
I activated a new park this week after a workday. That was fun and it opens some doors to more frequent activating and general radio operating since I have some QRP kits now that are simple to travel with and deploy quickly.
-
POTA US-1596 – Seneca Creek State Park (MD)
Seneca Creek State Park near Gaithersburg, Maryland is a relatively large state park, or at least it felt that way to me compared to some of the parks we have in Northern Virginia. While I was there for a singular purpose, I did drive around the entire park checking out the multitude of picnic areas…
K2MAS.net 