Field Day and POTA action in Broken Bow, Oklahoma

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Combined the traditional summer family vacation with portable radio operations,  this year in Broken Bow Oklahoma.   Made 130 FD contacts on Saturday and Sunday, and another 26 at a second park on Monday before heading home.   

On Saturday,  I dropped the family off to hike and swim near Broken Bow lake while I spent an hour to activate US-2771 Beavers Bend Resort State Park.   Combined the POTA activation with annual field day activity using 1B - OK class and section.  Only got 22 contacts SSB in an hour even tho the bands were so full!   

Sunday,  used the Maestro-C to operate my remote station in NTX section to continue Field Day.  Mostly CW on Sunday,  and the battery in the Maestro worked great - was still at 25% Sunday evening since charging it Friday morning.  130 total contacts logged for Field Day.

Monday,  got up early to activate one more park north of the cabin - US-6367 McCurtain Wildlife Management Area OK.  Made 26 Contacts in 58 minutes.   SSB 14.280, ATAS-120A.  Yaesu FT-857d at 100w.  No cell service in the remote part of the WMA.   

One more plug for Ham2K - Portable Logger.  Called CQ for a while with no response.  Made a few P2P by spinning the dial with great signal reports both ways.   Decided to try the self spotting function in PoLo and after about 5 minutes PoLo was able to get a spot out successfully-  then the contacts came quickly!   

The (automatic?) retry function is pretty cool - Cell phone was showing SOS only for most of the activation, and the occiassional 1 bar due to cell signal propogation.   Spotting QRV and QRT from the app is very handy!   73 all!  Chris de WX7V.















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