Author: Perry W1GRD

Review: Offline Spotter for POTA/SOTA (iPhone)

Offline Spotter is an iPhone app by Kris Linquist W1ADV that allows you to spot yourself in a POTA or SOTA reference using the satellite feature of newer iPhones. It’s one of those things that you don’t need until you need it, and when you do need it, it’s quite likely that you aren’t in […]
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US-1196 San Bruno Mountain SP

On Saturdays and Sundays you can drive right up Radio Road to the very top of US-1196 San Bruno Mountain State Park, just a few miles southeast of San Francisco and nearby Daly City in California. It was a Saturday, and I was on my way to the second night of the Grateful Dead 60th […]
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About Those n-Fers…

The POTAmap here at POTA News & Reviews includes a feature that identifies potential n-fers for a give park. You can see it in the image above, US-6909 Harris State Game Land is a possible n-fer with eleven different parks. Does that mean that you can sit in US-6909 and log it as a twelve-fer? […]
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How to Use the POTAmap

There's quite a bit of information available on the POTAmap, but to be fair it can be a little tough to figure out the first time you see it. Here are a few quick tip to use the map to your advantage.
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RIP N4NTO Tripp Owens

The POTA community is dealing with the loss of a popular and prolific operator. On the 4th of July, Tripp Owens N4NTO had finished an activation at US-11375 Averasboro Battlefield Historic Site in North Carolina, about halfway between Fayetteville and Goldsboro. Tripp had set his status to QRT on POTA.APP and was apparently taking down […]
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US-11635 Hyannis Pond WMA

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 for the WMA at the entrance tossed into the weeds. An adult-care facility across the […]
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US-1704 Old Furnace State Park

The 'furnace' part of the park's name refers to an iron smelting furnace that operated on the property in the 1700s. Iron processed here was used to make horseshoes for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. This is an easy park with great views, and an adjacent park if you'd like to go for two.
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US-11481 Rainbow Beach WMA

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 a mess. Even the trees look angry here.
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US-2416 Ames Nowell SP

I’m not a mountain-biker, but boy, do I love those guys. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, and for state parks and forests in my area there are often just a small number of marked trails, mainly loops that cater to casual hikers and dog-walkers. When the bikers move in, they create intricate meshes […]
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US-7714 Buck Hill WMA

In a remote corner of New England, three state boundaries meet, commemorated by a four-foot granite pillar. It's one of those rare locations where you can walk along with one foot in one state and your other in another!
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