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Roan Mountain

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:03:00 +0000

12 November 2022

K-2972 Roan Mountain State Park

K-4525 Cherokee National Forest

K-4556 Appalachian Trail National Scenic Trail

So Many References

First things first, you can activate a lot of references in a very small space. I did not do that. The Roan Mountain area contains several peaks and parks. Some overlap and some don’t. The ridge itself splits Tennessee and North Carolina. If you hike to Roan High Knob you’ll probably start at Carvers Gap and follow the Appalachian Trail up to the peak. The trail switches back between TN and NC several times.

Sam A. Baker and Mudlick Mountain

Sun, 20 Mar 2022 22:44:00 -0500

20 March 2022

POTA K-1746 Sam A. Baker State Park

SOTA W0M/SF-033, Mudlick Mountain

WWFF KFF-1746 Sam A. Baker

WWFF/SOTA/POTA

The WWFF (World Wide Flora and Fauna) Get your Park ON Spring Fling was this weekend. I hadn’t made any specific activation plans, but I was in between classes (spring break wooooooooooo), the weather was looking great, and I was dying to get out and play radio. The Virginia QSO party was the same weekend so the bands should be lively. Before this I had never made a WWFF outing or submitted a log. A quick look at their map showed that many of the WWFF sites are also POTA and some SOTA sites as well. WWFF-KFF maintains a cross reference list between POTA and WWFF locations. I really wanted to get out and hike a bit so I started comparing the maps to try to find the magical trifecta of the three major portable radio programs. I really wish there was a combined map that would show all of these together.

Buford Mountain Conservation Area Missouri

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 14:17:00 -0600

18 December 2021

POTA and SOTA Together

My wife was was going to be out all day hanging out with a friend so I decided to activate a park while she was gone. After some looking around I found Buford Mountain Conservation Area in Missouri about an hour and a half away. Turned out that it was POTA K-8281 and SOTA W0M/SF-002! I hadn’t done any SOTA activations yet so it took me a minute to figure out how to schedule an activation on SOTA Watch.