Bamatech TP-III & Modern Morse Nameless Jul 31, 2025 amateur radio As I’ve progressed down my portable operating journey, my portable operating has become more and more CW centric, which has put a certain focus on Field Operating Jul 21, 2025 amateur radio & POTA Parks on the Air is the gateway drug to amateur radio field operating. Oh, I know, the traditional thought is that Field Day is the thing that gets Field Notes: US-3216 Lake Sammamish State Park Jul 11, 2025 amateur radio & POTA For a while US-3216 was the closest POTA park to my home, and I’ve activated it more than two dozen times, earning a Kilo award in the process. It’s Field Operating - Power Jun 21, 2025 amateur radio & POTA Power for portable radio operating can come from a variety of sources, in a wide variety of power levels and overall capacity. What solutions you Field Operating - Convenience and Comfort Jun 21, 2025 amateur radio & POTA As I’ve expanded my field operating experience, I’ve acquired a number of items which, while not strictly radio related, are nevertheless great Field Operating - Antennas and Feedlines Jun 21, 2025 amateur radio & POTA Two of the essentials for portable operating (well, actually, for any operating, but…) are an antenna to radiate your signal and capture signals you QRP Skills Jun 19, 2025 amateur radio In the POTA Discord, Charlie N4IIT asked A bit off topic, but I’d love to hear more about how you think about the QRP skill set. I hear this a lot Yaesu FT-891 POTA/Field Kit Mar 10, 2025 amateur radio & POTA Now that I have my new Yaesu FT-891 mostly sorted, I’ve been putting together a POTA/field kit, roughly based on the field kit I had put together FT-891 Powerpole conversion Jan 21, 2025 amateur radio My recent purchased Yaesu FT-891 came, as all spanking new Yaesu FT-891’s do, with a four contact Molex style power connector, the male side of the G90 versus FT-891 (chasing 100W) Jan 19, 2025 amateur radio It’s worth a little thinking about how boosting your transmit power affects a POTA activation. The generally unobserved and uncommented fact about Rainy Activation at Larrabee State Park Jan 5, 2025 amateur radio & POTA Eager to get my ‘parks activated’ count up to 30 for the next arbitrary award level on the POTA website, I headed up to Larrabee SP, the first state Lake Sammamish and Palouse to Cascades Trail Dec 21, 2024 amateur radio & POTA On 12/15, decent weather tempted me out to try for two activations - Lake Sammamish SP (US-3216), followed by Palouse to Cascades Trail (US-3203). Kanaskat Palmer State Park (US-3209) Dec 10, 2024 amateur radio & POTA Looking at my stats on the POTA website, I saw that I need three new activations to hit the next level of activator award. I am fairly resolved to Lake Sammamish SP (US-3216) 12/3/24 Dec 7, 2024 amateur radio & POTA As the weather turns less pleasant, my willingness to activate new parks diminishes, because I often have very little idea if I will be able to find Yet another Lake Sammamish Activation (11/25/24) Dec 6, 2024 amateur radio & POTA After our Big Windstorm, I had tried to do an activation of Lake Sammamish State Park and arrived at the park to find, to my horror, all the gates Redemption at Marckworth State Forest Dec 2, 2024 amateur radio & POTA Having narrowly avoided a ‘invalid’ activation attempt at Lake Sammamish SP when I inadvertently had a QSO fall into a new UTC day, I was feeling a One activation, two days Dec 1, 2024 amateur radio & POTA A week of looking around for another set of parks that would give me an opportunity to do two parks in one day left me at the end of the week having One Year of Parks on the Air Nov 13, 2024 amateur radio & POTA I made my very first POTA QSO on October 4, 2023. I did my first POTA park activation on October 30, 2023. Prompted by a desire to hunt (and then Two Activations in One Day Nov 10, 2024 amateur radio & POTA With the itch to get out and do an activation growing, and a Friday with no commitments scheduled, I started eyeing the POTA map looking for Activating two parks, one day (US-3168 & US-3169) Oct 30, 2024 amateur radio & POTA One of my goals is to activate more different parks. I’ve been eyeing the cluster of parks on Whidbey Island for some time, contemplating a two day