POTA from California to Europe
Another quick activation at Chino Hills State Park, featuring a contact with Europe.
Another quick activation at Chino Hills State Park, featuring a contact with Europe.
A fast early activation at Chino Hills State Park.
A quick trip up to the mountains near Big Bear, CA while scouting camping spots allowed for another activation of San Bernardino National Forest US-4463. I had planned to use a throw line through the tree branches, but ended up forgetting the line and weight, leaving me to use the
Documenting the build of a CFT-1 QRP CW Transceiver and it's first field use in a POTA activation at Chino Hills State Park.
My second time calling CQ on CW during an activation. I assemble some POTA activation goals to continue growing the CW skills.
Calling CQ for the first time using CW at Angeles National Forest.
With a few spare hours on Sunday morning, August 11th, I decided to make a quick run into Chino Hills State Park (US-1139) to see if the band conditions had improved. CHSP is an interesting park with a great network of trails, but most of them have little to no
Trying to beat the high temperatures once again, I headed up to the mountains of the San Bernardino National Forest near Big Bear, CA (US-4463) for a Parks on the Air activation. Remembering the lessons from my last trip, I brought along my Kelty Waypoint car tarp for some additional
Facing a heat wave at home, I decided to run up into the mountains near Big Bear Lake, CA to activate the San Bernardino National Forest (POTA entity US-4463) and enjoy the cooler temperatures. The location I selected was near Holcomb Valley, accessible via a network of dirt forest roads
A quick activation at Chino Hills State Park (US-1139) with the Yaesu 710.
POTA activation and Winter Field Day 2024 at Mojave National Preserve and Mojave Trails National Monument.
POTA activation at a new spot in the Angeles National Forest.
Antenna Building
Building and tuning a linked End Fed Half Wave antenna in the Mojave Desert.
Parks on the Air (POTA)
A failed POTA activation at Red Rock Canyon State Park while practicing CW.
Learning Morse Code
My first CW contacts in the log.
Learning Morse Code
The start of my journey learning Morse Code.