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POTA Activation at IE-0256
On the second attempt, traffic having scuppered the first, I managed to get to IE-0256, Castlemartyr Woods and to be the first to activate this park. Castlemartyr is a small wood near a village of the same name. I used the /T setup for this activation and spent an enjoyable few hours on both SSB…
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POTA Activiation 3 at IE-0028
Due traffic problems, I had to defer the planned activation of IE-0256 Castlemartyr. Instead I went back to IE-0028 Maralogue Wood again and had some fun there for an hour and a half. Due wet and breezy weather, I had the place to myself for most of the time. I logged 40 contacts on 20M…
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POTA Activation at IE-0029
Having figured out the bigger issues on the first two “shakedown” POTA outings and also now with some sense of what a POTA activation is like, I set off to IE-0029 Rostellan woods for a longer activation. I didn’t go too far, Rostellan is about a 25 minute drive from home and due the geography…
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POTA Activation 2 at IE-0028
My second cut at a POTA activation, with a few enhancements from the first outing. Again, I went to my local woodland, Maralogue IE-0028. Having learned from the first experience, I put my antenna somewhere where the vertical element (uninsulated) wasn’t touching off tree branches all the time. That had played merry hell with the…
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First Ever POTA Activation, at IE-0028
My first POTA activation, the mission simply to shake down and test out the new “/T” setup. That setup is intended to be used at locations I can access by car. It’s built around my recently renovated Kenwood TS450SAT (33 years old now), with a 90Ah battery for power, and my proven 20M elevated GP…