
2021 Winter Road Trip
2020 finally ended to the relief of pretty much everyone. My wife had some vacation time so we decided to do a 2500 mile road trip from Washington, DC through the south, up to Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois & Indiana. First stop on the trip was High Rock Summit in...

Bearwallow (W4C/CM-068), NC
Bearwallow, North CarolinaBearwallow Mountain (W4C/CM-068) is a popular bald summit south of Asheville, NC. The summit hosts the several radio towers and antennas giving the summit a hellish VHF RFI operating situation. While the views are amazing, HF is probably the...

SOTA: 9 North Carolina Activations in 4 days
My article published in the May 2017 QST Magazine:

Guest NPOTA Activator Appearance!
One of the many awesome facets of amateur radio is that you get to meet a large variety of people of various backgrounds and locations from all around the world. While activating Yorktown NP in SE Virginia, I met up with another NPOTA activator, Ruth KM4LAO. She...

The Great NC/SC SOTA/NPOTA Trip: 7/17/16- 7/19/16
Getting out of the heat and heading down to western NC (south of Asheville) to activate several NPOTA/SOTA sites. Hopefully the 6000 feet elevation will cool things off a bit. Schedule will be fluid as the trip down is pretty far from DC (8 hrs). No whining on...