The Support Your Parks event for POTA enthusiasts was the weekend of 15-17 July, 2022. I got out for it in the spring and decided to go out to support the effort. I only had a couple of hours to ...

Since we got a camper, we started spending time with Hipcamp. It's a place where you can find private campgrounds. In essence, someone has a chunk of land and they set it up for camping and rent ...

Here is a quick script to solve a problem. I wanted to be notified if my computer saw "POTA" in a CQ on WSJT-X. As was pointed out to me by K2CR on Mastodon, there is an ALL.TXT file that has eve...

Usually, when I'm out doing and activation of a park, it's on the weekend. And most weekends, I wear my Apple Watch so that I can still get communications from my family but my phone can be in a ...

My family decided that we would take our camper on its first big vacation trip and that our destination would be the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. My last trip up that way was many, many years ago...

My family took our first trip out in our new camper. Naturally, I took the radio along. We were in a private campground on the OH/PA border. Literally on the border. Walking on the street had us ...

I headed out this weekend twice. The first was out to Wingfoot Lake State Park [K-3516]. I got there Saturday afternoon and prepared for a Jeep activation in the parking lot because, well, there ...

It's been a while since my last activation. It doesn't mean that there's nothing going on around here, but it does mean that radio time in the field has been limited. It's been for good reasons l...

An Easter activation! We got home from our muddy camping trip and decided to, well, go out to another park. This time it was Portage Lakes State Park [K-1984]. As my son would say, "Literally 198...

My wife and I decided that Easter weekend would be a good one for a camping trip. It turned out to be a quick one and one that we did without the kids because, well, they do a lot of camping with...