This park stretches along the northern edge of the Wirral Peninsula, locally know for a few Nature reserves and country Parks. For me the best location for operating from it is in the Town of New Brighton. It is now ...
The Great Orme is a headland formed of Limestone jutting out into The Irish Sea. Situated on the Coast of North Wales, one of the four Countries of the United Kingdom. My visit today was to revisit another favourite place ...
The largest country park in the Wrexham area of Wales; Alyn Waters is situated in the beautiful Alyn Valley and is a Green Flag Award accredited site. There are a variety of woodland, grassland and riverside walks throughout the park helping ...
This park has an affinity with me for so many reasons. The first time I visited it was in 1968, when I was an excited 7 year old. It was the first time I was away from home on a ...
A Community Park Nature Reserve with the River Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal surrounding the island. Completely surrounded by water with a narrow iron bridge giving access from Runcorn main land. A very popular community park especially with local dog ...
When people think about Norwegian nature, they usually think about deep fjords surrounded by tall snow-capped mountains. A perfect example of that is Frafjordheiane landscape reserve, located in Western Norway. Frafjordheiane is more than just mountains though, in the lower ...
I was in California for the Grateful Dead's 60th Anniversary celebration, three glorious shows at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco with some killer guests and openers, a bit of a pilgrimage for this longtime Deadhead. I live on the ...
The area is every bit as bleak as the photos indicate. There was quite a bit of trash back here, old mattress springs and car parts, and plastic barrels that I had no intention of looking into. Clothing, toys, just ...
Activating the last park of Massachusetts started more as an informative Discord session of, “What if?” than an actual plan. In the 1-Derland Discord, where a lot of Ham Radio Crash Course Discord Members of call region 1 find themselves, ...
Chockalog Swamp is, in fact, a swamp, and for quite a while was unactivated. It's a classic case of driving out to see what it looked like ...
In late September I ventured northward to the Grafton area of Massachusetts and US-11513 Martha Deering WMA. This was the most uninviting spot I've been to so far, and to be fair the notice mentioned that it was 'unimproved'. There's ...
Man, did Mt. Pisgah WMA get hosed by the copy writer over at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management. Here's their official description of the property: This property is comprised of a hardwood ridge with small rocky outcrops. Also, there ...
I've been burned a few times visiting parks that have had only a few activations. For a while I would get intrigued and excited when I'd find a nearby location that had only been activated one or two times, but ...
I'm slowly learning that Apple Maps does not really show you the way to POTA happiness. On some cases it can barely show you the way to the parking lot. The picture above is what you'll be looking at when ...
Once you get in, this isn't a bad spot to operate from. But oh, getting in! ...
The father and son had bagged one pheasant, and the young boy was excited to show it to me, a beautiful male. It was a reminder that WMAs are set aside for both wildlife management and hunting. Three more hunters ...
On Saturday I joined the Pilgrim Amateur Wireless Association's monthly POTA outing at US-2420 Borderlands State Park. It was a really fun get-together with POTA/SOTA star Bob WC1N flipping burgers on the grill and at least four stations active on ...
I seem to be spending a lot of time in swamps lately. It's actually not a bad time here in New England to be thinking about swamps – the summer and fall of 2024 were very dry here, and many ...
There was supposed to be parking for three cars along the southwest corner of Hyannis Pond WMA in Barnstable, Massachusetts. What I found instead were several large pieces of construction equipment, torn up earth, and what was once the sign ...
You can't go too far down the road in New England before running into a cranberry bog. Cranberries love the cool weather and grow on ground that might not support other crops, plus they are an easy crop to harvest ...
