{"id":325,"date":"2026-06-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/?p=325"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:09:32","slug":"pota-activation-at-ie-0073-and-ie-0002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/2026\/06\/09\/pota-activation-at-ie-0073-and-ie-0002\/","title":{"rendered":"POTA Activation at IE-0177 and IE-0002"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My first “two-fer” activation and in one of the more beautiful places in Ireland -Galway Bay and The Burren, on Ireland’s West Coast. Despite mixed weather that involved sunshine one minute and torrential downpours the next, I really enjoyed this activation. In addition to a decent 45 qsos in the log on 20M CW and SSB, I also met a lovely couple from the USA and an equally lovely foursome from France who were great company and seemed genuinely interested in what I was doing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In between the downpours, it was a beautiful afternoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There were a few learnings from this activation; while the GP is a great antenna, it takes a bit of time to set up. I’d like something that’s a bit quicker. I’ve also realised it’s too heavy for true “\/P” activations so I’m going to have to sort out an alternative solution. Another learning is that most folk are curious when they see a POTA setup but are too shy to ask. I decided to try and strike up a conversation with some of the folk who parked up to enjoy the view and were clearly wondering what it was I was up to. It was fun talking with them and I think they appreciated that I was prepared to share with them what I was doing. They in turn were fascinating people, with their own stories to tell. Taking the opportunity to engage with folk when doing POTA or other \/P activations adds even more fun to it, and is also a bit of easy positive publicity for the amateur radio hobby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Activation Summary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Black Head, looking west to the Aran Islands and out into the Atlantic Ocean. 3 QSOs were made with friends on the other side of that vast, wild ocean.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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QSO Map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first “two-fer” activation and in one of the more beautiful places in Ireland -Galway Bay and The Burren, on Ireland’s West Coast. Despite mixed weather that involved sunshine one minute and torrential downpours the next, I really enjoyed this activation. In addition to a decent 45 qsos in the log on 20M CW and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","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\/325","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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}