{"id":404,"date":"2026-05-21T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/?p=404"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:07:40","slug":"pota-activation-at-ie-0256","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/2026\/05\/21\/pota-activation-at-ie-0256\/","title":{"rendered":"POTA Activation at IE-0256"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/D0B8189B-FD59-438A-8E8A-005699EF3A5F.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-412\" style=\"width:90px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/D0B8189B-FD59-438A-8E8A-005699EF3A5F.png 500w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/D0B8189B-FD59-438A-8E8A-005699EF3A5F-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/D0B8189B-FD59-438A-8E8A-005699EF3A5F-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>First ever POTA Site Activation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">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 and CW with 6 Trans-Atlantic QSOs, the most I&#8217;ve made on any POTA activation so far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"528\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/E0361C5C-FD65-4634-A376-9FB2899F4AC8_1_105_c-528x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-408\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/E0361C5C-FD65-4634-A376-9FB2899F4AC8_1_105_c-528x1024.jpeg 528w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/E0361C5C-FD65-4634-A376-9FB2899F4AC8_1_105_c-155x300.jpeg 155w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/E0361C5C-FD65-4634-A376-9FB2899F4AC8_1_105_c.jpeg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Activation Summary<\/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\/5272298A-0B7A-46DA-8ABC-2C21511B8959_1_105_c-501x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-407\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5272298A-0B7A-46DA-8ABC-2C21511B8959_1_105_c-501x1024.jpeg 501w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5272298A-0B7A-46DA-8ABC-2C21511B8959_1_105_c-147x300.jpeg 147w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5272298A-0B7A-46DA-8ABC-2C21511B8959_1_105_c.jpeg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">QSO Map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","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\/404","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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}