Category Archives: Awards

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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1500 Unique Parks for POTA

Posted on August 5, 2024 by robert

On Sunday, I finally achieved the 1,500 unique park mark for Parks on the Air.  It took me 349 days to go from 1,000 to 1,500 parks. Perhaps getting to 2,000 parks might be a good goal for 2025. This … Continue reading →

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POTA Worked All Provinces

Posted on July 24, 2024 by robert

A nice surprise showed up yesterday when I worked Ricardo VY2AN who was at a park on Prince Edward Island (stunningly beautiful island).  PEI completed my Worked All Provinces award for POTA.  My thanks to him and all the other … 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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Another K4NYM Milestone: 450 O2O

Posted on June 18, 2024 by robert

Things have slowed down a bit.  I suspect Bill hasn’t been out in the early morning hours as often as he has in the past due to band conditions (the past month+ has seen very weak signals on most bands … Continue reading →

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Operator To Operator Award with W1LY

Posted on May 17, 2024 by robert

Willy, W1LY, is a dear friend of mine.  He’s the sort of person who is always looking to help, and has serious skills to make things happen.  Here at casa WB4SON, for example, he launched a 160-meter Inverted-L antenna in … 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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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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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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