February 7, 2025, Oakville Harbour Historic Site (CA-6319) and Great Lakes Waterfront Trail (CA-6003)

Since I will be starting a new contract next week, I am trying to fit in as many POTA activations as I can! I decided it was time that I started using my Nikon DSLR to get better pictures as well. The harbour was cold and windy, with a lot of geese resting on the ice.

Here is a close-up of the setup in the car, with the BaMaTech key, and running a cheap tablet for Hamrs logging. I find the interference pattern interesting on the tablet pixelation. You can click on the image and zoom in.

This is the lighthouse with some ice.

There are a lot of geese who don't appear to mind a bit to be wading in 0°C H2O. I get cold just looking at it, and I'm wearing a battery-operated heated vest!

Here's a map of the QSOs, all 20m CW. I was very happy to get Arizona and Sweden, on 5 watts.

Date Time Call State/Country Band Mode Park
2025/02/07 15:54 KS4OT GA 20m CW
2025/02/07 15:54 KB4TJJ TN 20m CW
2025/02/07 15:56 AK4R TN 20m CW
2025/02/07 15:56 N1XK IA 20m CW
2025/02/07 15:57 W4NA WV 20m CW
2025/02/07 15:58 KE9BOS IN 20m CW
2025/02/07 15:59 N4RFC GA 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:01 SM3NRY Sweden 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:05 KØBXB WI 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:06 N9GZ IL 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:07 K9IS WI 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:10 NU4N KY 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:12 KE9V IN 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:14 WJ5K MS 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:15 K9CPO WI 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:16 KA2D NY 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:21 K4KFB AL 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:22 KA9DCU WI 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:26 KA9DVX IL 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:30 NS2X TN 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:32 WO1W FL 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:34 K4WMT SC 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:38 W8TK AZ 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:38 W5KEB AR 20m CW
2025/02/07 16:40 KB1M NH 20m CW

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