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Is anyone participating this year? April 17 & 18. https://www.tspota.net/home
73 de Wyndell K5WJF
I am doing some hunting from home and have learned a lot about how little antenna you really need to reach out. I have a project going on right now, but in the fall I hope to activate a few parks myself.
I would suggest anyone wanting to get on the air in HF, get hunting. I have embarrassingly simple antennas, but have reached state parks all over the country. Many of the contacts on my QSO map are POTA contacts.
I have all my gear together but adjusting the antenna (EFHW). I’m to the Agave level for hunter but my only activation attempt was a failure. Bands were bad and only 2 contacts even though pskreports was showing pretty good distances. It’s a lot of fun hunting and even though it was HOT and muggy it was fun and got to meet some good folks while trying.
Keep plugging. My biggest frustration with the idea of activating a park at the moment is my antenna system leaves received signals down below the noise floor except certain windows of time. Since an activation/day starts at 0000 GMT, that means here, the day ends at 1800 (or 6:00pm). Looking back on my contacts, my antenna functions well on 20 meters from say 1300 to around 1500 and after that, any contacts I make are going to be on 40 meters.
I would love to set up for a 24 hour activation, but I’ll have to do more tinkering with my tangle of wires. As soon as I can get settled into my new north of downtown, I’ll be back in experiment mode and get back on the air
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