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  • POTA in Central Texas

    With a week of precious vacation gradually dissolving in the wet and gloomy North Texas weather, I desperately grabbed a BnB in Laguna Park, TX with intentions of activating parks new to me.  These are my old stomping grounds from… Continue reading

    POTA in Central Texas

  • Spread The Word!

    I’ve watched a ton of YouTube videos while learning CW.  Most every night, I fire up my Kindle or phone and copy along to someone else’s POTA activation.  There’s several CW operators filming and posting their POTA activations to YouTube… Continue reading

    Spread The Word!

  • POTA The Destroyer

    I happened across a live stream by Walt, Coastal Waves & Wire posing the topic of what POTA will mean to the solar minimum.  The talked slipped into is POTA a contest and should it be allowed on the non-contesting… Continue reading

    POTA The Destroyer

  • Wires and Antenna Models

    I’ve been playing at modeling antennas.  It’s an on-and-off again thing where every time I play with the software I get a little closer to understanding it.  I use MMANA-GAL to model.  It’s free.  It’s also fairly simple if you… Continue reading

    Wires and Antenna Models

  • The best table at Bonham SP

    I found a cool morning at US-2991 Bonham State Park.  Not cool-neato, but cool-brrr.  It was high 50’s when I  arrived at 08:00 and dropped four or five degrees while I was there.  The activation was a breeze, pun intended.… Continue reading

    The best table at Bonham SP

  • Packin’ Light

    I carry allot of gear.  My mind plans in depth, a trait I developed in the Marines, to account for every possible circumstance then lay in reasonable contingencies for each.  My thoughts swirl with, “If this happens, I’ll do that… Continue reading

    Packin’ Light

  • 241109 @ Eisenhower State Park, QRP

    Something about CW outside just really recharges my battery.  Maybe it’s being outside after my first week of going back in to the gulag – err – office.  Maybe it the sunshine after several days of overcast and misty days. … Continue reading

    241109 @ Eisenhower State Park, QRP

  • 241029 Another Oklahoma Raid

    DitWit adventures continue!  Inspired by “just going somewhere”, I found a cabin at McGee Creek State Park near Atoka, Oklahoma.  The cabins, huts they call them, were rustic – table, bunk bed, no indoor plumbing – but they came with… Continue reading

    241029 Another Oklahoma Raid

  • 241028 @ US-2991 Bonham State Park

    Vacation – a whole week!!  Looking at the calendar at the beginning of the year, I know I’ll want – need – some outside time in decent weather.  Meaning fall.  So I blocked out the first week of fiscal November… Continue reading

    241028 @ US-2991 Bonham State Park

  • 241019@ US-0548 Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge

    Hagerman didn’t disappoint.  But I did.  I made it all the way to the fishing area, opened the back hatch to unload and discovered some idiot forgot to grab a battery on the way out of the door this morning.… Continue reading

    241019@ US-0548 Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge