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First day of 2025 and a tail of a different Coconino County! The Last POTA was in the forest at 7000'. Today is more of a dry desert at 4000'. Same National Forest, but this time in the Red Rock area. Two POTA activation attemts today at two
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Trying FT8 POTA on 10M @2.5w in Coconino National Forest. Here is the setup: PARK: US-4428 ELEVATION: Approx. 6,400 feet RIG: uSDX+ HF with ATU100 tuner ANTENNA: 10m EFHW 9:1 BATTERY: 12v Car Battery Map and detail of POTA activation:
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Made it to the Arizona Trail near C.C. Cragin Lake in the Coconino National Forest. This is a pretty high plateu at around 7300+ feet elevation. (my iPhone GPS said I was at 73,330' - what a bug!!!) Targeting 20M, I did get one contact on 15M @ 1.
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Evening POTA FT8 Coconino National Forest It is dry here... Here is the setup: * PARK: US-4428 * ELEVATION: 6,500 feet * RIG: uSDX+ HF with ATU100 tuner * ANTENNA: 20m EFHW 9:1 * BATTERY: 12v Car Battery Propergation on 20M was very good tonight. Within minutes, I had 5 contacts on
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My first Arizona POTA activation. I used 9:1 end fed antenna and the sBITX running at <10w. Made 3 phone contacts and a bunch of FT8. Here is the setup: Here is the activation info: