This Winter Field Day I wanted to do a Parks On The Air activation in conjunction with WFD. The POTA activation was US-7659 Huckleberry Ridge Conservation Reserve. I ended up making 100 total contacts during the event on a 15 foot vertical whip and a doublet antenna. My ICOM 7300 was used as the transceiver for the event.
It’s been a while since I’ve had done a VHF contest. It’s been since September of 2018 since my last VHF contest which you can read about it here. I actually took some initiative and set up a 3 element 6m Yagi and a 3 element 2m Yagi. The 6m Yagi was mounted on a 10 foot tall mast. The 2m Yagi was mounted on my 12 foot painters pole. Neither one was extremely difficult Read More …
We made this area our work week area. It is nice and secluded away from pretty much everything. We only had one vehicle drive by the whole week we were there. While Gayla was doing her video presentation I setup HF radio outside and activated the POTA park US-4403. I had 154 total unique contacts. It was a beautiful day to be outside in Wyoming. I used the 44 foot line wire to the 9:1 Read More …