National Parks on the Air
I'm not going to go into great detail about what NPOTA is, other than to say that the ARRL is celebrating the centennial of the the National Park Service with a radio event. Check it out here! I decided to dive in and try my hand as an activator - this will be my first time on "the other side" of potential pile-up, so while I'm excited about it, I'm also nervous. Any tips from contesting, special event, and pile-up pro's would be appreciated!!
If you check out the NPOTA site, I'll be registering my activations there, so everyone knows what I'll be activating and when. Because of my travels for work, I realized that I'll have lots of opportunities to sneak off to parks all over the Northeast when I am doing my business trips, so I hope to be doing a lot of these throughout 2016. When I am doing an activation I'll be sure to do "live" posts so that you can figure out what frequencies I'm on.
My first activation is actually going to be next week at Minuteman National Historic Park - Unit HP27. Hopefully I'll get to put you in the log! As a side note, i'm a big fan of 100 Watts and a Wire, and what they are all about. I just signed up for my 100 Watts ID# yesterday, after spending the last week or so listening through all the old episodes so that I would be up to speed. Supposedly Christian K0STH is actively chasing the parks, so Christian - if I hear your call I'll work as hard as I need to in order to dig it out! With that in mind, I might just have to give preference to any 100 Watters that I hear.....
If you check out the NPOTA site, I'll be registering my activations there, so everyone knows what I'll be activating and when. Because of my travels for work, I realized that I'll have lots of opportunities to sneak off to parks all over the Northeast when I am doing my business trips, so I hope to be doing a lot of these throughout 2016. When I am doing an activation I'll be sure to do "live" posts so that you can figure out what frequencies I'm on.
My first activation is actually going to be next week at Minuteman National Historic Park - Unit HP27. Hopefully I'll get to put you in the log! As a side note, i'm a big fan of 100 Watts and a Wire, and what they are all about. I just signed up for my 100 Watts ID# yesterday, after spending the last week or so listening through all the old episodes so that I would be up to speed. Supposedly Christian K0STH is actively chasing the parks, so Christian - if I hear your call I'll work as hard as I need to in order to dig it out! With that in mind, I might just have to give preference to any 100 Watters that I hear.....
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