My intention had been to head out to the northern Chicago suburbs on Saturday morning for some testing of the setup. This post is cross-posted to my general-purpose blog, jeff.glass/blogĭespite sunburns, shattered plastic, and a literal tornado warning, sunburns, I had a great time at Field Day 2021 this year. I also made 8 (I believe) Park to Park contacts with other operators out the in wild.Īll in all, a tremendous day of fun and excitement, and I’m looking forward to getting back on the air in a park soon. But I also reached some ears out in the Southwest, and even a handful of stations out in Oregon and Washington. I had wild swings of propagation into the eastern seaboard and the Southeast at one point, I had five consecutive contacts from the same corner of Northwest Georgia. Oh what fun was had! I made 98 QSOs in roughly two hours of operating – all but 4 of which were on 20m, the last few on 15m.
#AUTEK VA1 CALIBRATION INSTALL#
#AUTEK VA1 CALIBRATION ACTIVATOR#
Of course, you can make ‘park to park’ contacts and be a hunter and an activator at the same time. The program engages two (overlapping) sets of radio operators: ‘Activators’ who set up portable, temporary operations in state and national parks and wildlands, and ‘Hunters’ who seek them out on the air from more permanent setups. While that program ended at the beginning of 2017, a group of invested amateurs set about booting up an independent, ongoing program in the style of Summits on the Air, Islands on the Air, World Wide Flora and Fauna, etc. Parks on the Air is an international program inspired by the ARRL’s 2016 National Parks on the Air event.
I mentioned in my Field Day post from a few weeks ago that I was hoping to get out to a Parks on the Air activation soon, and this past Saturday, I made it happen!
This post is cross-posted on my general-purpose blog, jeff.glass/blog