Family holiday is #POTA time! Yesterday, on my way to Northern Denmark I activated DK-0010 near Aalborg.
Today my father and me activated DK-0005 in the morning, and DK-0012 in the afternoon.
Conditions were very noisy on 20 m, especially in the afternoon, but we got multiple QSOs with 59 in both directions. One station even told us we were the loudest station on 20 m at that time.
#hamradio
First #FT8 QSO! With K7CAR at Dixie National Park in Utah. https://pota.app/#/park/US-4395
With Realistic HTX-100 25W and a DigiRig mobile audio interface. Vertical whip on the attic fan.
Today I celebrated #WorldAmateurRadioDay by going to Raven Rock State Park, US-2751, and playing radio with my new-to-me KX3. Five contacts doesn't count as a successful activation by #POTA rules, but it counts as a success for me anyway. Making any CW contacts is a success for me at this point!
And I also lived the spirit of the day by making fewer QSOs than I might otherwise have done, due to spending quite some time chatting with an initially quite skeptical park ranger about what I was up to. He had served in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and dealt with loss of communication infrastructure, so the concept of wanting to be able to help in an emergency resonated with him, and I shared how POTA is getting me outside instead of hanging around indoors; also aligned with his interests.
I watched his face change from a "I'm maybe going to have to ask you to leave" face to friendly and welcoming as we talked.
So that was the more important success for this park activation... 
I've been staying in Medicine Park, OK for a few days, doing #SOTA and #POTA activations in the nearby Wichita Mountains. The cabin I'm staying in is one the slope of Mt. Cummins, W5O/WI-031. There's a hiking trail that leads up a hill with a nice view of Mt. Scott and has a bench to sit on. I took my KH-1 and chased POTA from there this morning. Good way to start a day.
New ham adventures...
Today, I was at a park (but not a #POTA) site, so I hunted POTA with my new-to-me KX3 as a way of learning in the field a bit of how to use it. I had 4 40m CW QSOs using the diminutive AX1 + AXE1 combo antenna with both the supplied radials attached directly to the radio, and 2 20m QSOs (one CW, one SSB) with a 5.6m whip vertical on a JPC-12 base. I used 15W because I am new to #AmateurRadio and have enough trouble, without making more trouble for myself by going truly QRP.
The QSB was heavy. I had one failed QSO in particular that started with me getting a great 599 signal, but then repeated "KZ4?" responses from the activator even when I dialed down my keyer to send my repeats more slowly, and just as their response may have included my full call sign, they faded away completely and I never pulled them back in. (But I didn't write down the call sign, so I don't remember who it was...)
My Morse code recognition sure needs more work. I suspect that when I'm better at it, it will be easier to pull signals out of the noise. I did receive a very faint signal from Europe (Germany IIRC) but I couldn't quite copy the whole call sign so I didn't attempt to reach across the pond with my meager 15 watts this time. 
Another tough day on the AmateurRadio #HamRadio #HF bands. But thanks to #MastodonHam J.C. @KC8JC started the morning off GREAT on 40 meters with this #POTA #parksontheiar #MorseCode CW #QSO at US-7956 Beargrass Creek State NAture Preserve Louisville, KY . USA
Flooding along Ohio River @ Louisville,KY. Stars mark my #POTA #parksontheair sites US-4572 Lewis & Clark National Historical Trail now under water. No big deal for me but devastating for 1000s along the river.
Warum erfahre ich davon erst jetzt 
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https://www.radarrally.info/p/radar-rally-rules.html?m=1
Seit meiner ersten #pota Aktivierung achte ich darauf, wie viel Zeit für Auf- und Abbau der Station draufgeht.
Gestern mit QTH Wechsel gearbeitet.
RADAR scheint mir der nächste Schritt zu sein.
I went for a #POTA activation at #plantenunblomen today. The conditions for shortwave contacts were a little rough due to a magnetic storm. Still I managed to get 39 QSOs into the logbook. Worked SSB and CW.
Huh?
What strange sounds!
Yesterday was actually a nice activation of DE-0608 on 40m.
However, it took time and maybe, I hadn't in mind that a contest had started, so, I misunderstood, when suddenly, after 30 minutes or so, lots of stations gathered on my QRG which...
#pota
Hope my #QRP signals for this morning's #POTA #parksontheair will break through current #Spaceweather #SolarStrom before #terrestrialweater #severewxstorms settled over my QTH today through Sunday. #AmatyeurRadio #hamradio2022
The Latest "Ham on a Bike" Blogpost is out. "Two Hams On a Bike Make Contact" #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #POTA #parksontheair #QRP #MorseCode CW @Youkits #HB1B #RandowmWireAntenna @sotabeams #SOTABeamstravelmast
https://hamonabike.blogspot.com/2025/04/two-hams-on-bike-make-contact.html
. In the end I got three CW contacts in addition to 45 SSB contacts.
