Monthly Archives: July 2024

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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Visually Impaired HT Use

Posted on July 22, 2024 by robert

A good friend of mine is visually impaired.  We have worked together and he has been successful using a Kenwood TS-590 on HF (it has a strange mix of voice, Morse code, and tone beeps, but you can deal with … 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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Hello Old Friend!

Posted on July 2, 2024 by robert

From the ARRL:  “Effective 12:00pm ET / 16:00 UTC we will be returning Logbook of The World® (LoTW®) to service.”  That is fantastic news! I uploaded the logs that I had waiting since things went down in early May.  When I … Continue reading →

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