The exploration of Kansas City’s Fusion continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tonight at 8pm eastern John, AB0O<\/a>, came up on the Kansas City Wide<\/a> room (28054) announcing a net called POTA PIT<\/a>. A pretty interesting net. There were several check-ins. Discussion ranged from equipment, recent operations, as well possible plans for Field Day activations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n POTA<\/a> is indeed a phenomenon. Jumping on the coattails of the National Park Service’s 100 year anniversary<\/a>, POTA developed beyond just activating National Parks to activating a whole host of parks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While I do not think we need necessarily need a formalized structure to inspire ham communications between portable sites and others\u2026 I can’t see how it hurts. POTA CW operations make for good practice although their exchanges tend to be wam-bam-thank-you. Seems like it would interesting to at least hear about the park they were at. I always enjoyed activating lighthouses<\/a> when I was back in Virginia. The Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS<\/a>) didn’t advocate for rapid exchanges but supported more casual QSOs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve been practicing using my mobile setup to make CW contacts using my leg key (J-45). These contacts have been while parked and I think that’s the way they’ll stay. The J-45<\/a> leg key is a tricky beast, but like anything, it will come along with practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The exploration of Kansas City’s Fusion continues. Tonight at 8pm eastern John, AB0O, came up on the Kansas City Wide room (28054) announcing a net called POTA PIT. A pretty interesting net. There were several check-ins. Discussion ranged from equipment, recent operations, as well possible plans for Field Day activations. POTA is indeed a phenomenon. … Continue reading “POTA PIT”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[338],"tags":[350,353,356,354],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-fusion","tag-j-45","tag-kansas-city-wide","tag-pota"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-1cz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4629,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions\/4629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}