Beating the Odds: POTA Activation Under Noisy Band Conditions

It's been almost two years since I did a Parks On The Air @ParksOnTheAir (POTA) activation from US-1732 Brandywine Creek State Park @DelawareStateParks17, located in the rolling hills of north Wilmington, Delaware. Although the band conditions have been improving, I knew my FX-4CR SDR Transceiver at 5 Watts wouldn't let me down. Watch the video to see everything that happened! Thank you to the all of the hunters and fellow activators for the contacts! New POTA-themed QSL cards are IN! QSL info can be found on my QRZ page. ALL amateur radio operators world-wide need to know the DX CODE OF CONDUCT. It was meant for DX contacts, but it really applies to ALL aspects of amateur radio (DXing, contesting, POTA, SOTA, Field Day, special events, etc...). DON'T BE AN ALPHA HOTEL! http://dx-code.com. EQUIPMENT USED: Radio: FX-4CR SDR HF Transceiver DIRECTLY FROM BG2FX - GET YOUR OWN AT www.bg2fx.com! Mount: ULANZI MT-33 Flexible Mini Tripod @ulanzi Antenna: MFJ 1640T 40M & 1620T 20M HF Sticks Tuner: MAT-TUNER mAT-10 Automatic Tuner Coax Cables: ABR Industries @ABRindCoax N9SAB's 1:1 QRP Nano Dipole Balun/Choke for Common Mode Currents/Noise Reduction Gen II - http://bit.ly/3UEy9Zf Case: Apache 2800 Weatherproof Protective Case (Medium) Tri Mag Mount: MFJ 336S Battery: Bioenno Power 12V, 4.5Ah LFP Battery Tripod: UBeesize 64" Phone Tripod @ubeesize9784 External Microphone: DJI Mic Kit + DJI Lavalier @DJI Camera: iPhone 15 Pro Max Logging Device: iPad Pro (Spotting, information & logging) Logging App: KI2D's Ham2K Portable Logger (a.k.a. "PoLo") Tumbler: RTIC 30 oz Insulated Tumbler @RTICOutdoors Ham Stick Bag: Lixada 55 Inch Fishing Rod Bag Large Tool Bag, iPad Pro sleeve and various pouches from Special Operations Equipment @SOEtacticalgear (SOE): https://www.originalsoegear.com or https://www.soetacticalgear.com Range Shorts from Kitanica @KitanicaUSA: https://kitanica.com General Ursus/Damned Dirty Ape t-shirt from Zulu Foxtrot: https://www.zerofoxtrot.com/products/damned-dirty-ape-tee 3D PRINTED QR CODE PLAQUES - EMAIL Jess N4JAH via QRZ.com -- 💚 Support the Channel 💚 Please like 👍 & subscribe ✅ and click the bell 🔔 for notifications of new videos! Don't forget to leave a comment 📜! ☕️ Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/K3JRZ 🅿️ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/K3JRZ Connect with me on: ✖️🐦 X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/k3jrz 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/k3jrz/ -- Parks On The Air: https://parksontheair.com Parks On The Air Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/parksontheair/ Parks On The Air Slack group: https://parksontheair.slack.com Parks On The Air spotting/stats/awards/and more site: https://pota.app LOCATION INFO: Brandywine Creek State Park @ Delaware State Parks: https://www.destateparks.com/brandywinecreek Brandywine Creek State Park on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandywine_Creek_State_Park -- MUSIC COPYRIGHT 1992 - 1997 BY GANGSTER PUMP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. -- CONTACT TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 00:48 - Checking the Frequency 00:59 - AE4XO 01:41 - EA4TL 02:36 - AJ4VC 03:20 - K4ADS 03:54 - KE4QCY 04:24 - KI4PIL 04:53 - KG5CIK 05:36 - VA1PKK 06:09 - K4LOX 06:38 - W1MRC - P2P 07:46 - K8NIV 08:24 - N2BTD 09:31 - K1NEO 10:03 - KU4SMC 10:54 - KY2DFG 11:48 - Recap/Outro -- I am not affiliated administratively with the Parks On The Air organization, but a happy participant in the POTA program. Q: What is Parks On The Air? A: Parks On The Air (or POTA) for international portable amateur radio (ham radio) operations that promote emergency awareness and communications from national/federal and state/provincial level parks. There are activators and there are hunters. Activators go into POTA approved parks, set up their amateur radio equipment and call CQ (CQ is an invitation for any amateur radio operators listening on that frequency to respond and make contact). Hunters will contact the activators and upon a successful contact, the activator puts the hunter into their logs that will be uploaded to calling area representatives who will then upload those logs to the POTA system. Hunters do not need to upload any logs. Q: What are the Parks On The Air rules? A: The rules for Parks On The Air can be found at https://parksontheair.com/rules/ . Q: What are the Parks On The Air frequencies? A: Any frequency that an amateur radio operator has permission to legally use in their country based upon their level of license. Repeaters cannot be used. More info can be found at https://parksontheair.com/faq/ . --