Blog Archive — 2025

52 Week Ham Radio Challenge Roundup: Weeks 1-4

Written on Monday 20 Jan 2025

A new amateur radio activity for this year that you may not be aware of is the “52 Week Ham Radio Challenge”. Coordinated via the website and via a Mastodon bot, it provides 52 challenges for 2025, approximately one a week, for players to work on alongside each other. The...

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POTA Activation Report: Avon Heath Country Park

Written on Saturday 18 Jan 2025

Most of the local POTA parks are just open areas of heathland, but for POTA’s Support Your Parks Winter event, I wanted to choose somewhere I could actually support—in this case largely by paying £5 for parking. This is Avon Heath Country Park, GB-0362. Compared to nearby Moors Valley, my...

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POTA Activation Report: Ham Common

Written on Friday 3 Jan 2025

From my regular childhood haunts, to this place—despite being in my home town, I don’t think I have ever been here before. This is Ham Common, POTA ref. GB-1302, an area of heathland with a large fishing lake and two look-out points to enjoy scenic views of Poole Harbour. And...

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POTA Activation Report: Upton Country Park

Written on Thursday 2 Jan 2025

Since I discovered that POTA had an award for activating in the first week of the new year, naturally I had to kick off 2025 by getting my nerd on in a field. January 1st was a write-off, with wind and warnings in place and a G4 solar storm lighting...

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