November 8, 2025: Borer's Falls Conservation Reserve, Hamilton (CA-1323)

I last activated Borer's Falls back in October 7, 2023 on SSB, before I knew CW. If you are interested in features of the park, the link provides a much better description of the park. Chris swung by the horse barn, and while I had no intention of activating a POTA today; Dr. Tamitha Skov, the Space Weather Woman, predicted a very noisy day. But Chris, VA3CJW showed up at the barn, and I took little convincing.

Before we left, I tried to get, Thomas, K4SWL on 40m. I tried on 40m, with the KH-1 using the very long counterpoise. The spot was stale, and he had moved to 20m, so I coiled the counterpoise back, so that I could replace it with the 20m counterpoise, and remove the loading coil. In the process of coiling it up, Puss, a frisky 2 year old barn cat attacked the counterpoise!

Chris drove to the POTA, maybe 15 minutes away, and we used his rig to do the activation. I got 12 QSOs. The difference in this activation and the last is that I know more about the parks, and this particular activation is also:

Here's a snap of the activation. It was rather chilly at just 6°C, and I had on my electric vest and electric hand warmers.
Date Time Call State Band Mode Park
2025/11/08 17:04 K4IA VA 20m CW
2025/11/08 17:06 K9XE IL 20m CW
2025/11/08 17:07 WØMM TX 20m CW
2025/11/08 17:08 KD5TXX KY 20m CW
2025/11/08 17:10 KG1A FL 20m CW
2025/11/08 17:11 AA8UP MI 20m CW
2025/11/08 17:12 WC1D MA 20m CW
2025/11/08 17:14 KE4APN AL 20m CW
2025/11/08 17:15 KM4FO KY 20m CW
2025/11/08 17:17 N8EU NC 20m CW US-0683
2025/11/08 17:33 WA9VFD KY 20m CW US-7890
2025/11/08 19:34 WBØRLJ NE 15m CW US-4011

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