{"id":235,"date":"2026-05-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/?p=235"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:25:11","slug":"pota-activation-2-at-ie-0028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/2026\/05\/12\/pota-activation-2-at-ie-0028\/","title":{"rendered":"POTA Activation 2 at IE-0028"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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 SWR on the last outing! The biggest change I made was the move to Ham2K’s Portable Logger PoLo<\/a> for logging. What a find (thanks to my radio buddy Vic for the pointer). If you’re interested in POTA or SOTA, or even \/P operating more generally, then PoLo is well worth a look, it’s a very well thought through and executed app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Antenna mounted well clear of trees this time around.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I stuck with 20M SSB again on this activation and honour was served with a QSO total of 19, one higher than the first outing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Activation Summary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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QSO Map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","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\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}