Stateside operating

US trips

Vacations where the radio came along. What fit in the suitcase, what the rental would tolerate, and how the bands behaved from someone else's balcony. Where a trip included a park, the activation write-up lives on the POTA page and is linked from the story.

California

Yosemite Valley - El Capitan, Half Dome, Bridal Veil Falls
POTA · US-4466

Activating Sierra National Forest (US-4466) from the Edge of Yosemite

First visit to Sierra National Forest (US-4466), activated right from our cabin at Tenaya Lodge on the edge of Yosemite. A stubborn intermittent short in a PL-259 turned the activation into a fight — and inspired a homebrew coax tester. I'll definitely be back.

20 Apr 2026W4IOUS-446620 & 40M · FT810 QCHA-TDL