It was the best of times, it was … actually pretty good. even the bad was good. We went out on the 24th, Tuesday October 24th, for those who were wondering, and the weather was beyond compare. Sunny and in the mid 20’s C ( mid 70’s for those stuck in the F scale, mid 290’s for those who prefer K). Not much wind. My antenna went up easily , almost like it knows where it is supposed to go. The contacts started rolling in very quickly and in no time I had worked a total of 43 including some park to parks and a couple husband-wyfe teams. a good day. After packing up, my wyfe and I took a ride up Hemlock Road and she did some videoing before we went and got some lunch/supper (lupper?). My owl decoy, Tootsie, kept the bears and Karens away and generally helped me log. The park is one of the nicest places a person can go; remote and quiet with a wooded charm.

Yesterday, 28 October, my wyfe said that maybe I should take advantage of the weather and activate as rain was supposed to move in today. As you may be able to tell, I am doing my best to get as many activations in before the weather turns shitty for the next 3 months. I like the outdoors but sitting out in the cold doesn’t appeal to me much these days. I guess I should explain that I am a neophyte when it comes to POTA. I only started doing this with any seriousness this summer. Sure, I had worked a few parks before this and I had registered on the POTA website in April for 2022, but I never really made any effort until this past summer. I started hunting and then I started doing activations. I am no expert by any means, though I have a lot of experience doing portable operating. In fact it is good to be getting back into it. Ok. Enough history. Yesterday I packed up the car and brought along Ptolomey as my mascot/guardian. I also brought my pink flamingo, Charade. It didn’t take long to set up but it did take a while for my first contacts to come in. I thought it was going to be hard to get 10 but finally they started gaining momentum. I started getting spots on the POTA APP and I was able to work 54 contacts with a lot of Park to Park contacts. Overall, though the day was a bit cloudy and dismal and the temps were a bit lower than Tuesday, It was a good day. Hopefully there will be more chances this Autumn.