Using THE FORCE for Amazing DX - Star Wars Day 2025

What better way to celebrate Star Wars Day (Sunday, May 04, 2025 - May The 4th) than doing a Parks On The Air (POTA) activation at US-7648 the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Conservation Area @delawarednrec at the South Lums trailhead. I had to use The Force to get some of the contacts, but prevailed in the end! Watch the video to see what happened! Thank you to the all of the hunters and fellow activators for the contacts! 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: Yaesu FT-891 @YaesuUSAOfficial Cage: Armoloq TPA-891B Mount: ULANZI MT-33 Flexible Mini Tripod @ulanzi Antenna: MFJ 1610T 10M & 1640T 40M HF Sticks Tuner: MAT-TUNER mAT-30 Automatic Tuner Backpack: Gigaparts Explorer Modular Backpack System 2.0 - HamRadio 2.0 Special Limited Edition @GigaPartsHuntsville Coax Cables: ABR Industries @ABRindCoax Tri Mag Mount: MFJ 336S Battery: Bioenno Power 12V, 30Ah LFP Battery Battery Box: Powerwerx PWRbox Portable Power Box for 12-40Ah Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) Bioenno Batteries Tripod: UBeesize 64" Phone Tripod @ubeesize9784 External Microphone: DJI Mic Kit @DJI Camera: iPhone 16 Pro Max Logging Device: iPad Pro (Spotting, information & logging) Logging App: KI2D's Ham2K Portable Logger (a.k.a. "PoLo") @Ham2KApps Tumbler: Stanley Quencher H2.0 FlowState Stainless Steel Vacuum Insulated Tumbler Ham Stick Bag: Lixada 55 Inch Fishing Rod Bag iPad Pro sleeve and various pouches from Special Operations Equipment @SOEtacticalgear (SOE) - https://www.originalsoegear.com or https://www.soetacticalgear.com 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 at https://twitter.com/k3jrz 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/k3jrz/ -- Parks On The Air spotting/stats/awards/and more site: https://pota.app 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 LOCATION INFO: DNREC C&D Canal Conservation Area overview: https://bit.ly/3fFth1q DNREC C&D Canal Conservation Area (entire map): https://bit.ly/3qSlEtB Chesapeake & Delaware Canal on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_%26_Delaware_Canal Michael N. Castle Trail - https://delawaregreenways.org/trail/michael-n-castle-c-d-canal-trail/ -- CONTACT TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 01:46 - XE1BLA - P2P 02:59 - CE3FZL 03:36 - KA6NPD 04:01 - KI6PMD 04:29 - HJ2EMJ 05:19 - W7DBP 05:46 - CE3RIF 07:04 - KG2RG - P2P 07:55 - KQ4RMH 08:29 - W2IG 08:56 - KE2DPK 09:20 - W5MPB 09:50 - N4BDW 10:33 - VA3ET 11:11 - KC1ELF 11:34 - W3MLK 12:16 - KN4VA 12:42 - KB9ZAO - P2P 14:11 - WN9K - P2P 14:32 - Recap/Outro -- MUSIC COPYRIGHT 1992 - 1997 BY GANGSTER PUMP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Star Wars (Main Theme) by The Great John T. Williams - Bantha Music and Warner-Tamerlane Pub Corp. --