Category Archives: Hunter

Hunted K4NYM 500 Times

Posted on October 1, 2024 by robert

During the summer months, Bill Brown K4NYM, wasn’t on nearly as often as before – perhaps avoiding the heat, or dodging the many storms that Florida has endured.  Even so, Bill and I worked each other 500 times.  100 of … Continue reading →

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Late Shift Hunter Award

Posted on August 5, 2024 by robert

There is always some new award to chase in the Parks on the Air program.  This morning, I finally received the Late Shift Hunter award.  This took years for me as I am rarely at the radio in the evenings.  … Continue reading →

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March to 1500 unique parks continues, along with 120 CWTs

Posted on July 15, 2024 by robert

As of today, I have 1426 unique POTA parks confirmed.  Twenty days ago, the count was 1401, so I’m adding a scooch over 1 park a day.  So the end of September seems like when I might get my goal … Continue reading →

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Still a bit under 100 new parks to go for 2024

Posted on June 25, 2024 by robert

One of my goals for 2024 is to have confirmed contacts with at least 1,500 unique POTA parks.  As of Saturday June 22, I had 1,401 confirmed. So 99 more parks to go.  Things have slowed down considerably as propagation … Continue reading →

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Operator To Operator 400 for K4NYM

Posted on May 4, 2024 by robert
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And after Bear Cave comes Fishing Hole?

Posted on May 1, 2024 by robert
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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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There is ALWAYS something new with POTA!

Posted on October 27, 2023 by robert

The other day I worked Dave KZ9V in Wisconsin when he was at Oden State Wildlife Area.  Nothing particularly unusual about that, but that happened to be the first park I’ve worked over 10000.  Dave was in park K-10191.

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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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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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