I recently picked up a SOTABeams BandHopper II and a Tactical Mini. My plan is to use these for some SOTA activations, however I didn’t want the first time I put the mast up to be on top of a mountain. Therefore, we set out to activate a park that doesn’t get a lot of …
I’ve had Jubilee Tower on my list to activate for a little while; It’s a great spot for a little radio work – in fact I’ve had a couple of contacts us there already, before I knew it was a POTA location. So this Saturday after we finished our errands in town we decided to …
We planned a hike today around Gisburn Forest, which is within the Forest of Bowland and therefore a POTA park. We set off dressed lightly, and for a change I wasn’t carrying a radio. We did a loop of about 6km and discussed heading back to the car and grabbing radios and then doing the …
Whilst idly checking the POTA Map, I spotted a park which had never been activated. I was a little surprised since it’s in the middle of a town and very easily accessible – with plenty of parking and plenty of space. Whilst there is parking within the park boundary, so it would be possible to …
In my last activation, partially due to the weather and partially due to time constraints, I did a very restricted activation. Relying on FT8 and activating from the front seat of the truck. So this time around, I did things differently. I wanted to activate exclusively using SSB, but I still wanted to perform the …
Whilst looking over the POTA map of parks, I noticed a relatively new park – it had only been in the scheme for about 8 months and as such had only been activated twice – so I put it on my TODO list to get to as soon as I had a spare couple of …
This was my first Parks on the Air activation and whilst my primary goal was to successfully activate the park, my second goal was to do this activation entirely on data and to use no more power than my IC-705 couple produce itself (10 watts). I’ve been playing around a lot with FT8 and JS8Call …