Category: Site Review

Site Review
Perry W1GRD

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

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James Walker

US-11486 Sunderland Islands WMA

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

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Kjetil LB4FH

POTA and WWBOTA at a 38cm Cannon

All along the Norwegian coast you’ll find heavy fortifications, most of which were either built or improved during WW2, where they took part in the German Atlantic Wall defenses. One

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Perry W1GRD

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

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Perry W1GRD

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

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Perry W1GRD

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

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Perry W1GRD

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

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Perry W1GRD

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

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