Category Archives: POTA

Another Bear Cave and 350 O2O with K4NYM

Posted on April 14, 2024 by robert

A couple of new POTA awards came in this week – first was the Operator To Operator Award with Bill K4NYM.  Unsurprisingly another Bear Cave Award came is as well, this time for Green Swamp US-5330 in Florida (thank you … Continue reading →

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Eclipse Park Activation with KH1

Posted on April 8, 2024 by robert

My wife and I headed to our favorite park, Beavertail (US-2868) on Conanicut Island, RI,  to watch the Eclipse this afternoon.  We were too far to the east to enjoy totality, but we figured it would be fun to see … Continue reading →

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It’s not all about K4NYM, but almost!

Posted on April 3, 2024 by robert

I was surprised to receive a QSL in the mail from Bill Brown, K4NYM, who has made over 190,000 QSOs from 388 parks.  I can’t imagine the number of QSL cards he must send out!  I can’t even imagine the … Continue reading →

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What’s Bigger Than a Fox Den?

Posted on March 26, 2024 by robert

Well a Bear Cave, of course!  I just received the Repeat Offender Bear Cave Award for working US-4559 sixty times!  This is one of K4NYM’s favorite parks, judging from how frequently he’s there. Lest you think I only work Bill, … Continue reading →

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Too much fun hunting Bill K4NYM

Posted on March 24, 2024 by robert

As of yesterday, I’ve bumped into Bill Brown K4NYM in over 300 Parks on the Air!  Bill is an avid activator and I usually manage to work him in two different parks (sometimes more) almost every day.

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O2Ox250 Plus Another Repeat Offender

Posted on March 12, 2024 by robert

I’m sort of amazed how many times I’ve worked Bill Brown K4NYM as he does activations in Florida.  Usually it is several times a day as he moves from park to park.  Honestly, it’s pretty easy once you start paying … Continue reading →

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200 POTA Parks left for year-end goal

Posted on March 5, 2024 by robert

I noted that today I reached the 1300 mark for parks hunted.  One of my 2024 goals was to have 1500 parks in the log, so that is going well.  Perhaps I will be at 2000 by year’s end. A … Continue reading →

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200 in the bag and heading to 250 (POTA O2O)

Posted on February 25, 2024 by robert

I’ve been having fun hunting Bill Brown K4NYM and work him usually at least once a day.  I actually had a SSB contact with him, which was our first time in 212 contacts.  I suspect by early March we will … Continue reading →

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Another Repeat Offender Award

Posted on February 21, 2024 by robert

With Bill’s K4NYM help activating Colt Creek State Park, I’ve picked up another repeat offender award park K-1848 By the way, I have about 233 more parks to go to obtain my 2,000th unique park, and about 10 more contacts … Continue reading →

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Bill must be getting tired of me…

Posted on February 5, 2024 by robert

I’ve now spoken with Bill Brown, K4NYM, over 150 times, as this latest POTA Operator to Operator award indicates.  Since he activates several parks a day, and I keep bumping into him, I wonder how long it will be before … Continue reading →

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