It was a long bit of time off for me this holiday. I grabbed what amounted to about two weeks of time off and spent most of it with my family around the house. It was a wonderfully low-key holiday season for us. That meant that there was time to head out to the park…
It has started to get chilly here in NE Ohio. Not a surprise for December. I had a long week and decided that the thing that I really needed to do was get out in the field. There is a wonderful silence in the park when it’s cold. There are fewer people around and the…
A very brief field report. On the 26th, my wife, the puppy, and I went back to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park – K-0020 for a dog walk and a little radio. The weather was almost too nice. It was sunny and quite warm in the open. I netted a pretty good number of contacts…
Well, I did it. I was pretty sure that I wouldn’t hit the Oasis Activator award for K-0020 this year, but my long birthday weekend brought it so close that a quick trip out to the park the day before Thanksgiving sealed the deal. While things were setting up in the fridge and we had…
It was a big week for me with a milestone birthday and all, so I took a couple of days off that led to a four day weekend. I activated Cuyahoga Valley National Park – K-0020 on the 17th and just knew that with three more days in the weekend, getting one a day was…
November 17 and 18 are off days in my world to celebrate my circumnavigating the sun one more time. And what does it mean when there is time off? POTA, my friends. POTA. Nothing but POTA. All day long. And it’s in the service of getting that Oasis Activator Award before the end of 2022….
There is probably a strong case to make Cuyahoga Valley National Park – K-0020 a topic of its own on this blog since all of the posts about POTA operations of late have been about it. Or so it seems. There were two activations by yours truly at that location over this past weekend. Both…
So I snuck out to the park Friday and I figured that would be all the activating I could get in for the weekend. But I forgot about the time change as we leave DST behind. When our Rottie slapped me in the face to get up, the sun was just creeping into the sky….
There are some days when the stars align just right. This was already set to be a big weekend for radio, but I managed to squeak out some time after work and before my family left for a Scouting event for the weekend to get out to Cuyahoga Valley National Park – K-0020. This was…
Time to title these posts differently, I think… My family was otherwise occupied this past Saturday, so I did the only thing that made sense: I loaded up my bike and cycled off to Cuyahoga Valley National Park – K-0020. We’re getting to the time of year I enjoy most in the parks. It’s usually…