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I tried hunting POTA with five different #HamRadio antenna arrangements while taking a short holiday at the beach over the past few days. I tried the built-in antenna on my KX3, a 20m vertical with radials on a deck, the same vertical with radials stuck with a stake into the top of a sand dune, and two inverted-V 40m end-fed half wave arrangements on a spiderbeam, a north/south and an e…

Which #hamRadio lighthouse activation program do US hams usually do?
I will soon be near Oak Island Lighthouse in North Carolina, which is WLOTA 1247 and ARLHS USA-558. The websites for WLOTA and ARLHS both appear to be in something of a state of disrepair, so it's not clear to me how active either program really is. I also can't tell if they tend to operate outside of contest wee…

Two SOTA peaks in one day, with about 25 miles of sublime dirt roads on a beautiful day...does it get any better? Okay, the bands were abysmal. Don't care.
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