{"id":342,"date":"2026-06-10T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/?p=342"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:10:20","slug":"pota-activation-at-ie-0073-and-ie-0002-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/2026\/06\/10\/pota-activation-at-ie-0073-and-ie-0002-2\/","title":{"rendered":"POTA Activation at IE-0073 and IE-0002"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I had so much fun the previous day and as I was passing nearby, I couldn&#8217;t pass up the opportunity to also activate IE-0073, Ballyteigue Nature Reserve near Lisdoonvarna in The Burren. A very beautiful and secluded spot, it was a wonderful place to spend some time. The DX wasn&#8217;t too bad either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9E1E3C57-B170-4009-8090-D2DEE37D1764_4_5005_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-313\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9E1E3C57-B170-4009-8090-D2DEE37D1764_4_5005_c.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9E1E3C57-B170-4009-8090-D2DEE37D1764_4_5005_c-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Marsh Orchid at Ballyteigue Nature Reserve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"629\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/D3EAB64F-B171-4878-BA42-C05DA04F9702_1_201_a-629x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-334\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6142600762994255;object-fit:cover;width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/D3EAB64F-B171-4878-BA42-C05DA04F9702_1_201_a-629x1024.jpeg 629w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/D3EAB64F-B171-4878-BA42-C05DA04F9702_1_201_a-184x300.jpeg 184w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/D3EAB64F-B171-4878-BA42-C05DA04F9702_1_201_a-768x1250.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/D3EAB64F-B171-4878-BA42-C05DA04F9702_1_201_a-944x1536.jpeg 944w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/D3EAB64F-B171-4878-BA42-C05DA04F9702_1_201_a.jpeg 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Activation Summary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/181A4C34-B8B7-4EBB-B10C-BD02662E0D98_4_5005_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/181A4C34-B8B7-4EBB-B10C-BD02662E0D98_4_5005_c.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/181A4C34-B8B7-4EBB-B10C-BD02662E0D98_4_5005_c-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">IE-0073 Ballyteigue Nature Reserve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"501\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6F7F8480-3089-45E1-8E1C-3FE662D5827F_1_201_a-501x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-335\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.4892607664607547;object-fit:cover;width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6F7F8480-3089-45E1-8E1C-3FE662D5827F_1_201_a-501x1024.jpeg 501w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6F7F8480-3089-45E1-8E1C-3FE662D5827F_1_201_a-147x300.jpeg 147w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6F7F8480-3089-45E1-8E1C-3FE662D5827F_1_201_a-768x1569.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6F7F8480-3089-45E1-8E1C-3FE662D5827F_1_201_a-752x1536.jpeg 752w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6F7F8480-3089-45E1-8E1C-3FE662D5827F_1_201_a-1002x2048.jpeg 1002w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6F7F8480-3089-45E1-8E1C-3FE662D5827F_1_201_a.jpeg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">QSO Map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had so much fun the previous day and as I was passing nearby, I couldn&#8217;t pass up the opportunity to also activate IE-0073, Ballyteigue Nature Reserve near Lisdoonvarna in The Burren. A very beautiful and secluded spot, it was a wonderful place to spend some time. The DX wasn&#8217;t too bad either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","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\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}