Category Archives: POTA

Spoke too soon re: Miady 16 AH LiFePO4

Posted on June 1, 2023 by robert

After “fully” charging the battery, I put it into service during a POTA activation.  Imagine my surprise when 10 minutes into the activation my radio shut down.  I suspected a battery failure, but didn’t have a backup with me. When … Continue reading →

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Self-discharge Miady 16 AH LiFePO4 battery

Posted on May 27, 2023 by robert

Back in 2020, I purchased an inexpensive 16 AH LiFePO4 battery from Amazon, made by Miady.  Initial testing indicated that it was optimistically specified, as it tested to be 15.24 AH, but that wasn’t bad given it was about a … Continue reading →

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Added Hawaii to POTA WAS list

Posted on March 26, 2023 by robert

The Parks-on-the-Air (POTA) program is somewhat unique in that they have 51 entities listed for Worked All States (WAS); the usual 50 plus DC as a “wildcard”.  I had worked DC, so when I had 49 states confirmed this January, … Continue reading →

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Parks On The Air – 800 Unique Parks Hunted

Posted on March 2, 2023 by robert

Every year I set a few goals for myself to keep my interest going in my Amateur Radio hobby.  This year one of the goals was to hunt 1,000 unique parks.  I just received the award for having 800 unique … Continue reading →

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Completed Parks on the Air All States Hunter Award

Posted on January 5, 2023 by robert

Yesterday I received notice that I had completed the Parks on the Air All States Hunter Award.  Many thanks to K0TTW, who made the journey up from Colorado to park K-6129, which is near Casper Wyoming.  I had been searching … Continue reading →

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Hit 20,000 contacts in my logbook

Posted on December 14, 2022 by robert

After uploading CWops Log #159 for this year, I hit the 20,000 QSO mark in LotW.  Most of those have come in the past couple of years and have been due to POTA or CWTs.  I started logging electronically back … Continue reading →

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Hunted 700 Unique POTA Parks

Posted on October 25, 2022 by robert

On October 21st, I received the Wiggn’s Acalpha award from ParksOnTheAir.com in recognition of having confirmation from 700 unique parks (out of 9,709 currently).

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Island of St. Paul POTA Award

Posted on October 1, 2022 by robert

I’m always surprised at how inventive the Parks on the Air program is.  A week or so ago, I received yet another award, this one for working all the parks on the Island of St. Paul (pretty easy since there … Continue reading →

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Another Surprise POTA Award

Posted on July 13, 2022 by robert

Jason and his gang have been working hard to keep POTA interesting.  A DX award just popped up a couple of weeks ago:

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Park #51 in Rhode Island Activated

Posted on April 2, 2022 by robert

I had forgotten how long it had been since my last activation (November 9, 2021), and how nice it was to be outside.  My wife, dog Jaclyn, and I drove to Beach Pond (K-6980) which is on the boarder of … Continue reading →

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