2022 is in the rearview mirror. Seems like the right time to look back at the year in ham radio for KC8JC. Let’s do that, shall we? 2022 GOALS At the end of 2021, I was looking for some Stupid Arbitrary Goals for my hobby. I set four of them. Let’s see how I did….
10-Dec-2022 – Cuyahoga Valley NP – K-0020
It has started to get chilly here in NE Ohio. Not a surprise for December. I had a long week and decided that the thing that I really needed to do was get out in the field. There is a wonderful silence in the park when it’s cold. There are fewer people around and the…
26-Nov-2022 – Cuyahoga Vally NP – K-0020
A very brief field report. On the 26th, my wife, the puppy, and I went back to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park – K-0020 for a dog walk and a little radio. The weather was almost too nice. It was sunny and quite warm in the open. I netted a pretty good number of contacts…
Freeze Your Acorns Off 2022 Results!
The results are in! My dad and I came in 3rd place with a score of 1,566 points. Not too bad for a day where the propagation was absolute garbage and we were mostly talking to ourselves in the park via phone modes. FT8 was the only way out, sadly. But we stuck to it…
The K-0020 Oasis – 23-Nov-2022
Well, I did it. I was pretty sure that I wouldn’t hit the Oasis Activator award for K-0020 this year, but my long birthday weekend brought it so close that a quick trip out to the park the day before Thanksgiving sealed the deal. While things were setting up in the fridge and we had…
18-20 Nov-2022 – Cuyahoga Valley NP – K-0020
It was a big week for me with a milestone birthday and all, so I took a couple of days off that led to a four day weekend. I activated Cuyahoga Valley National Park – K-0020 on the 17th and just knew that with three more days in the weekend, getting one a day was…
17-Nov-2022 – Cuyahoga Valley NP – K-0020
November 17 and 18 are off days in my world to celebrate my circumnavigating the sun one more time. And what does it mean when there is time off? POTA, my friends. POTA. Nothing but POTA. All day long. And it’s in the service of getting that Oasis Activator Award before the end of 2022….
12-Nov-2022 and 13-Nov-2022 – Cuyahoga Valley NP – K-0020
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 seems. There were two activations by yours truly at that location over this past weekend. Both…
2022 Thirteen Colonies Special Event
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 special event pops up and I just can’t help myself. This year, I got on the air specifically to hunt down some of the…
06-Nov-2022 – Cuyahoga Valley NP – K-0020
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 me in the face to get up, the sun was just creeping into the sky….