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  • What is wrong with my ATAS–120A?

    I’ve had my Yaesu ATAS-120A antenna for a couple years now. In that time, I’ve had a few instances where I would swear that the thing is broken and needs to go back for repair. Luckily, that small voice, inside of me says “whoa, let’s check some things first”. The voice is usually correct, by…

  • Station Notes

    back In the day, when I was licensed, you had to keep a log of all activity from your station. That log could be inspected by the FCC. Should they ever want to. Well, that requirement has gone away, but some of us still do keep station logs. Unfortunately The software packages I’ve seen don’t…

  • PoLo Logger

    Preliminary thoughts A few weeks ago, I did a Mini-Rove of ATNOs (All-Time New Ones). When I say ATNO, I’m talking about for the WWFF program, not POTA. By this time, I doubt there’s any new parks to activate in the continental US for POTA. WWFF however is a different animal, as it seems pretty…

  • New Years Day

    Well, it’s taken a few months for me to get around to writing this. It seems that with Facebook, etc, the website has become my last priority. My resolution for the new year was to complete the “Activated All Ohio References” award. The final push began on New Years Day, with a drive up to…

  • How To Find Flint Run

    (Updated April, 2024): One of my toughest POTA activations I’ve was Flint Run (US-9464). This is because it took me so long to figure out How to do it. Flint Run is a Wildlife area in Jackson county Ohio. It lies south of Wellston off of Route 327. I’d decided that it was strictly a…

  • I’m still Here!

    I’ve been not blogging much in the last couple months. Why is that? Let’s see, running the club fundraiser, vehicle troubles, transitioning to a new job. Pick one, but they all have played a part in my lack of activations in the last few months.  I did hit Zepernick SWA (K-9522) pretty hard this month…

  • Winter Hike Rove

    Each year, I head to the Hocking Hills region in Southern Ohio for their annual Winter Hike. Most years, I home-base a few miles east, at Lake Hope SP. But this year, wanting to try someplace, I rented a Sherman cabin at Tar Hollow State Park (K-1996). Tar Hollow SP is SW of the Hocking…

  • January 14th N1CC Rove

    It was a fun morning yesterday. I don’t get to play POTA as much as I used to, so I’m happy to get even a few hours away. I’m working on my N1CC award, and was able to get to 10 bands at both sites yesterday. I was real happy for contacts with a couple…

  • Mapping Resources for POTA

    I like to analyze the heck out of things when I’m planning to hit a new park. In this post, I’m going to share some of the resources I use. Some, I’ve learned about from following the POTA Facebook group, and others from friends who are not on Facebook, but are active in POTA all…

  • SE Ohio Rove

    Ohio has 75 (soon to be 76) State Parks, but did you know that there are 271 POTA “references” in Ohio? I’ve activated 169 of them. My goal is to activate the remaining 102 references in Ohio before the moratorium on adding new parks ends.  I’ve done a couple day trips, picking up a park…