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Equipment used in this video:

Celestron Advanced VX Series 8″ EdgeHD Go To Telescope  
Celestron Celestron 1.25″ Universal Barlow and T-Adapter  
Cannon T5i  

April 10, 2020 n4mqu

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Nov
30

K-6934 #1 20221129 Pee Dee River State Game Land

  My first activation at my new residence.  NC K-6934 Pee Dee River State Game Land I see 4 POTA parks that I can easily get to. Living in the metropolitan area of Raleigh in order to activate the parks you had to work around traffic.  I see more activations in my future of multiple…

Nov
10

K-3854 Activation 27

  Location: NC K-3854 Middlesex  Date: 20221109 Equipment  Chameleon Portable HF Antenna CHA HYBRID Micro IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver Fun fun fun activating my home park Flower Hill State Nature Preserve for the 27th time. I made it to QSO 806. I had a short time before darkness fell. I decided to use my…

Nov
07

K-3841 #1 Falls Lake State Recreation Area

  Location: NC K-3841 Falls Lake State Recreation Area Date: 20221106 Equipment  MFJ-1984HP, ENDFED 1/2 Wave 40-10M IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver Operators Chris W4CEC 35 contacts , Mark N4MQU 37 contacts        Great same day activation planning with Chris Cancilla (W4CEC). He had to go to NC K-3841 Falls Lake State Recreation…

Nov
06

Activating my home park breaking the 100 QSO’s

I activated my home park today NC K-3854 flower Hill State Nature Preseve. If the FCC had an Aptitude test for getting your amateur radio license I would receive a low score but my enthusiasm overcomes that. I did have a few visitors to the nature preserve that was interested in what I was doing.…

Nov
03

Activating my home Park #25

Equipment MFJ-1984HP, ENDFED 1/2 Wave 40-10M IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver Great weather for activating Flower Hill State Nature Preserve my local park NC K-3854.I had to get out of the house for another house showing. I used my MFJ-1984HP, ENDFED 1/2 Wave 40-10M. It’s not taking me an hour to set up anymore. Thanks…

Nov
01

Flower Hill Working on the Kilo Award

    Location: NC K-3854 Middlesex  Date: 202201031 Equipment  Chameleon Portable HF Antenna CHA HYBRID Micro IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver There are various options in setting up the vertical antenna. Today I used the Cha Spike mount. We had a busy month getting our house ready for the market.  I decided to start activating…

Oct
30

Gov Aycock Birthplace Fall Festival

Location: NC K-6835 Governor Charles B. Aycock Birthplace State Historic Site Date: 20221029 Equipment  Chameleon Portable HF Antenna CHA HYBRID Micro IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver There are various options in setting up the vertical antenna.  I used the Cha Spike Mount. With no counterpoise.   Today amateur radio was invited by the parks administrator to…

Sep
24

K-6964 #1 Voice of America State Game Land

Location: NC K-6964 Voice of America State Game Land Date: 20220923 42 contacts  Equipment  MFJ-1984HP, ENDFED 1/2 Wave 40-10M IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver Operators Brandon KO4YJA, Mark N4MQU Prior to this activation the site had only been activated 4 times.  After we arrived we could see why. A lot of challenging obstacles.  I had…

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