Category: Picture Albums

An Amazing POTA with Friends

If you are familiar with Parks On the Air , and never performed a park activation, you are missing out. This weekend, I was involved with activating Alum Creek State Park (K-1933) along with KE8QPI, N8QL, and W8MDC. This was the first time any of us had ever performed an activation, so we considered this a “Dry-Run” to learn the ropes, hang out, and make some contacts.

  • Setup Begins
  • KE8QPI WolfRiver Coils TIA
  • N8QL Buddipole Deluxe
  • AE8Q Chamelon Vertical
  • Looking for that perfect SWR
  • The “Antenna Farm”
  • KE8QPI fighting the shade with the Solar Panels
  • Solar panels find some light
  • AE8Q and KE8QPI making first contacts
  • W8MDC and KB8PTL join the fun!
  • KB8PTL’s antenna launcher
  • W8MDC going old school to get into the trees.
  • So does KE8O and N8SY
  • The pileups begin!
  • N8QL having fun
  • AE8Q caught snacking!
  • Intense bunch!
  • Good times had by all
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Adopting a HG-52SS Crank Up Tower

I had the pleasure of working with a great group of people today. Our task was to move a HyGain HG-52SS tower from the home of NZ8C and transport it 26 miles to it’s new home. In the coming months, it will be overhauled, a new base poured, and re-erected at the QTH. The skies were clear and beautiful, a nice reprieve from the cold Ohio winter.

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