These are busy days for K4SWL
These past few weeks have been absolutely crazy for me in terms of activity–I’ve been traveling a lot, doing (involved) DIY projects on the house, searching for a new car, planning a PV system for the QTH, fixing well pumps, helping friends, and doing caregiving for my folks.
It’s all kept me very busy!
I have a sizable backlog of emails that have accumulated during this time. If you’ve sent me a message, I likely haven’t read it yet. Apologies for that. I simply haven’t had time to read and reply.
I thought about skipping a field report this morning, then I remembered an amazing West Virginia camping trip and draft videos I’d already uploaded to YouTube.
In lieu of writing a full field report (and so that I can share a video today) I thought I’d simply share this activation video with a Postcard type field report.
2022 West Virginia POTA Camping Trip
Last year (2022), in lieu of going to the Dayton Hamvention, my buddies Eric (WD8RIF), his son Miles (KD8KNC), and I spent a long weekend activating parks and camping in the New River Gorge area of West Virginia. Click here to read more about that trip.
The camping trip was absolutely amazing and we activated a number of parks during that time.
I made activation videos at most of the parks we visited, but with my summer travels and activations in Canada last year, I skipped over several of the videos I’d uploaded so that I could publish my Canadian activations while I was still in Canada.
New River Gorge National Park (K-0696)
The following activation video was made on May 21, 2022 as WD8RIF and I activated K-0696.
I’ve yet to re-watch this video myself, but I remember clearly that this particular day we had atrocious band conditions.
Indeed, rough bands were present during much of our weekend camping trip, but it never stopped us from having fun or activating our parks.
In terms of gear, I used my trust Elecraft KX2 paired with my Chameleon MPAS 2.0 antenna system.
Activation video:
Click here to watch on YouTube.
Logs
I hope you enjoy this below video and, as always, thank you so much to my Patreon and Coffee Fund. supporters! You’re simply brilliant!
72,
Thomas (K4SWL)
It was fun Thomas. Let’s do it again!
You take care of you, your family, and friends. I look forward to your articles and videos, but holy smokes, I don’t expect them. We all have stuff to do. Thanks for taking the time to share with us when you can.
Pat hit the nail on the head. Take care of you and your family, Thomas. And if you need to fit in POTA-therapy without the camera, that definitely fits with taking care of yourself.