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My Amateur Radio Life

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Weekend radioactive

Posted: 19 Apr 2022 11:33 AM PDT https://va3qv.wordpress.com/2022/04/19/weekend-radioactive/



Its been a while but here what happened this weekend in my world of radio




On Friday (Apr 16) I chased a lot of POTA and managed to up my park hunting substantually .








On Saturday (April 17) I continued to participate in the POTA Support your local Parks event by hunting a very crowded band for parks and then in the afternoon I actually did my first activation.








I packed up my Xiegu X5105 along with my Sota Beams lightweight 10m to 60m dipole and activated park VE-0023




HAVING ISSUES EMBEDDING THE MAP SO JUST FOLLOW THIS LINK




As you can see from the above map it was a round trip hike of 6km there and back from my operating location.




I managed to make 21 contacts in my first activation and hopefully there
will be more. The portable rig and antenna are working great. Lets hope
the band conditions become a bit better




73bob

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