I had an ambitious set of goals for 2023:
- Teach a class (either Technician or CW Academy)
- Participate in 120+ CWTs for the CWops Gold Medal
- Build my QRP-Labs QDX Digital Transceiver
- Activate 10 new parks in CT or obtain award for hunting 1000 parks
- Obtain 50 States Parks on the Air award
I completed four of the five, only failing to build the QDX transceiver. It sits on my desk and perhaps will come to life in 2024. I did complete 145 CWTs (actually 146 but I forgot to submit a log for one of them). I also taught a Technician class in the spring of 2023. For POTA I did get the WAS award, and hunted more than 1000 parks.
For 2024, I think I’m going to dial things back a bit, but here we go:
- Hunt 1500+ POTA parks
- Do at least one activation with the Elecraft KH1 hand-held QRP rig
- Give a radio club presentation on solar power/batteries
- Compete in 120+ CWTs
- Wildcard (like finish the QDX or some other ham related project)
