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• A New Ham’s Guide to Overcomplicating Everything: 2M Satellite CW To Get in a Gang?
• A Hike by the Lakes at Banff’s Sunshine Meadows
• The Chickadee Double Tap’s Maiden POTA Voyage & My New TR-25 Peanuts Pencil Case Field Kit!
• Does a cross-border contact count as DX?
• Four POTA Activations That Didn’t Go According to Plan
• Morning POTA at Umstead: Low Battery Forces One-Watt CW with Poor Bands
• One Planted Mast, Two Countries: A Unique POTA Rove Across the Scotland–England Border
• VE3YTX: A New Ham’s Guide to Overcomplicating Everything – Today’s topic, QSL Cards
• SOTA, POTA, and Pepper-Assisted Rapid Antenna Removal at Leith Hill
• QRPer Notes: Rhode Island’s First POTA Weekend, LY2H’s Radio Van Tour, and One CW Question Distilled Editions
• N8PEM: A Zippy Paddle Story on Picea Benchmark
• VU3GLJ: A 5-Watt Field Radio Adventure in India’s Bananthimari State Forest
• WN5C: Yet Another Base-Loaded Vertical Antenna Build
• A Much Lighter Backpack: Activating Dirrington Great Law (GM/SS-225)
• On The Air Is the Best Classroom: VE3YTX’s Journey in CW
• What’s Your Go-To CW Key for Wet-Weather Operating?
• K6TRK: US-3555 San Elijo State Beach; QRP with the Pebble HF kit radio
• From Alnwick to the Airwaves: Activating Ros Castle (G/SB-009) with the KH1!
• KI6CR: Two Swiss Summits – SOTA Activations at Schilthorn and Burgfeldstand (Part 1)
• Eight Parks, One Missing Mast, and the Midnight Sun: A CW-Only POTA Trek Along Sweden’s Kungsleden
• A Brilliant Morning of QRP with Gavin (GM0WDD) at John Muir Country Park near Dunbar, Scotland
• Six Contacts and a New Friend at Brenton Point State Park (US-2870)
• VA3EKR: POTA with Jenna and Gunner at the Sandy State Fish Hatchery
• With Marconi at the Cape: A POTA Activation at Cape Cod
• KB2PIZ: A Rough Start Turns Into an Easy POTA Activation
• W8TMI: QRP Along the North Shore of Lake Superior
• A Basic Elecraft KX2 Setup & Orientation Video
• The Battle of the Bands: Activation of Saint Stanislaus Conservation Area US-10954
• Meeting Friends on the Summit: A Special SOTA Activation at North Berwick Law
• Amateur Radio Has Never Been More Affordable — So Why Do Some Things Seem So Expensive?
• Hunting Fossils and POTA Contacts on Cocklawburn Beach in Beautiful Northumberland
• KK6IK: Summer Mornings, Iced Coffee & QRP
• A Wet POTA Experiment: Hunting, Calling CQ, and Changing Modes
• Travelogue: Walking the England-Scotland Border for a QRP POTA Activation
• CE7ET: Mini POTA DXpedition to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) CL-0105 / 3G0YT
• DF7CW: Field Testing the IC-705 and SOTAmāt in Märkische Schweiz (DE-0083) Before a Swedish Trail Adventure
• Roman History, a Family Day Out, and a CW ATNO: A Travelogue & POTA Activation in Melrose, Scotland
• The best-laid plans *do* work out, after you pivot a few times
• DB4REB: I Almost Stayed Home… Then I Worked West Malaysia with 8 Watts
• KV4AN: Lake Guntersville State Park Lodge Activation
• Along the East Lothian Coast: A Barns Ness POTA Adventure & Travelogue
• Boundary Bay POTA: A CW Friendship, the PERformer Antenna, and a Custom Paddle
• The best laid plans don’t always work out
• KB2PIZ: A Driftless Forest Activation at Tapley Woods
• Park Bench POTA with the Elecraft AX4: A Beautiful Morning at Castle Vale Historic Site
• The fourth try is the charm!
• W2TEF: A POTAcycle Rove Through the Appalachians
• KB2PIZ: A Detour to the Mines of Spain – Field Radio Between Chaperone Duties
• WD9GCO: Paul & Sher & Lego & Eric & POTA and Other Four-Letter Words
• The New KM4CFT Mini Mic Kit
• VU3GLJ: A Thoughtfully Equipped QRP Field Backpack
• EI3LH: The Joy of a “Failed” Activation
• Siccar Point: A POTA Activation at the Birthplace of Deep Time
• VA1ASP’s Canada Day POTA Marathon: Ten Parks in One UTC Day
• WB5DYG: When Portable is All Ya’ Got!
• The New Elecraft AX4: First-Ever POTA Activation on the Beautiful Berwickshire Coast!
• KK4Z: A Sea to Summit POTA Rove
• /PM: An Impromptu Pedestrian Mobile Two-fer in Berwick-upon-Tweed
• N7JTT: Two Days, Two Antennas, One Remarkable Community
• First UK POTA Activation: Cheswick Sands Nature Reserve (GB-5716)
• VA3MZD: The Bruce Trail and Parks on the Air
• A Tour and Review of my Savotta Niukka 20L Radio Backpack
• Share Your Field Reports with the QRPer Community!
• A Formula 1 Field Test: Pairing the Mountain Topper MTR-4B and Markus’ Legendary TP-III Paddle!
• Testing the New Tufteln Reel Antenna!
• A Quick Update from the UK
• Pop-Up Thunderstorm Forces a Mid-Activation Change of Plans!
• EI3LH: An Irish Island IOTA Adventure!
• Summer in the UK: Please Put These Callsigns in Your HamAlert!
• HRWB Post-Hamvention: Borrowed Gear, Good Friends, and a Brilliant Activation
• W7LDT: A Wyoming POTA Six-Fer!
• Help Ian (EI3LH) Activate Two Rare Irish POTA Islands VHF/UHF on Sunday
• Three Bikes & Three Hams: Playing Hooky from Hamvention!
• EI3LH: Sweets For My Sweet, POTA for My Honey!
• From NPOTA to POTA: En Route to Dayton and Making New Friends from Down Under
• Tippecanoe and POTA Too (or, A Tale Of Two Activations)
• Ten Years Later! A Three-Fer at Tar Hollow with Eric (WD8RIF)
• Don’t Worry… You’re Doing Fine
• Lake Alma State Park by Brompton: A Hamvention Week Warm-Up POTA Activation With Friends
• EI3LH: Sibling CW POTA Rivalry!
• BOGO Sale on the Bioenno 12V 3Ah LiFePO4 Battery Pack
• Morning POTA: Just Enough Radio Before a Road Trip!
• Robbed by UTC Day at Kozai Nishichiku Kowan Ryokuchi (JP-2046)
• Morning POTA: Taking the Argonaut VI Out for Fresh Air
• WD8RIF’s 2026 FDIM and Hamvention Photos
• Looking Back at FDIM and Hamvention 2026
• Appalachian Trail Magic and a Trailside POTA Activation!
• A Jury-Rigged Antenna Saves the Activation at Kinrin Park (JP-1653)
• Does half and half equal a whole?
• Elecraft Introduces the New AX4 Portable Antenna & BL3 Balun
• A snowbrush is essential POTA gear
• Back to Ritsurin Park for a Successful Activation!
• Heading to Dayton Hamvention and Four Days in May!
• Roadside POTA Twofer: Testing DB4REB’s KH1 Angled Pressure Paddles!
• QRP in the Spirit of POTA at Marugame Castle
• Testing DB4REB’s Clever KH1 Accessories on the Blue Ridge Parkway
• When eight equals ten
• VHF/UHF Lift and a First CW SOTA: EI3LH’s Marconi Day Milestones
• Paul Modifies the Chameleon CHA PRV 2.0 for Backpack Portability
• POTA with Friends: Zach’s First CW Activation, New Gear, and Tough Bands!