There is probably a strong case to make Cuyahoga Valley National Park - K-0020 a topic of its own on this blog since all of the posts about POTA operations of late have been about it. Or so it se...

Contests aren’t really my bag. I enjoy things like POTA because they’re more collaborative, in a sense, and aren’t so competitive. Low pressure hobbies are my jam. That said, the occasional spe...

So I snuck out to the park Friday and I figured that would be all the activating I could get in for the weekend. But I forgot about the time change as we leave DST behind. When our Rottie slapped...

Each year, the Portage County Amateur Radio Service aka PCARS hosts a QRP “contest” at Fred Fuller Park in Kent, OH. It usually occurs in February, but because of many, many factors, it was delay...

There are some days when the stars align just right. This was already set to be a big weekend for radio, but I managed to squeak out some time after work and before my family left for a Scouting ...

The OSPOTA logs were collected and the QSOs counted. I didn't do too badly given the issues that I had that day. The results put me in the lower middle of the single operator low power category i...

Time to title these posts differently, I think… My family was otherwise occupied this past Saturday, so I did the only thing that made sense: I loaded up my bike and cycled off to Cuyahoga Vall...

Before I left for NC, I spent some time on the POTA site looking for parks close to my hotel. On the drive down, Pilot Mountain was something I passed along the way. It was really pretty to see f...

The last time I traveled for work was in 2019, which was before the POTA bug got into me. This past week, I traveled by Jeep to NC for some meetings. I naturally added my IC-705 and assorted bits...

It was a windy Saturday morning with plenty of sunshine. Naturally, ones thoughts turn to cycling and a trip to the park. Why not toss the radio into the panniers and ride? Why not indeed! That...