{"id":230,"date":"2026-05-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/?p=230"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:05:21","slug":"pota-activation-at-ie-0028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/2026\/05\/09\/pota-activation-at-ie-0028\/","title":{"rendered":"First Ever POTA Activation, at IE-0028"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">My first POTA activation, the mission simply to shake down and test out the new &#8220;\/T&#8221; setup. That setup is intended to be used at locations I can access by car. It&#8217;s built around my recently renovated Kenwood TS450SAT (33 years old now), with a 90Ah battery for power, and my proven 20M elevated GP antenna, that&#8217;s made from an old ship&#8217;s lifeboat radio. On the whole, this first activation at my local woodland went well. I&#8217;ve still got a few wrinkles to sort out, particularly logging. Nice to get the first activation under my belt and a respectable 18 QSOs in the log, all on 20M SSB. I&#8217;m already looking forward to the next outing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8608-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-232\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8608-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8608-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8608-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8608-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8608-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stealthy in amongst the trees but branches kept touching the antenna and upsetting the SWR!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first POTA activation, the mission simply to shake down and test out the new &#8220;\/T&#8221; setup. That setup is intended to be used at locations I can access by car. It&#8217;s built around my recently renovated Kenwood TS450SAT (33 years old now), with a 90Ah battery for power, and my proven 20M elevated GP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portable","category-operating","category-pota-portable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}