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  • Support Your Parks Weekend – Spring

    Last weekend (19-20th April 2025) was the Spring edition of the “Support Your Parks Weekend” event. This is a quarterly event run by the Parks on the Air (POTA) team encouraging radio amateurs to “get on the air” from/to a park to support the program.

    I was pleased to be able to make contact with Riso OM6RT in his activation of Rumanovský park. Luckily for me, this meant I was issued with the special award for the event, which you can view below.

    I continue to support the Parks on the Air program, and I am pleased that such events exist to support the portable community within the hobby. Some of my best contacts have been while activating a local park/beach, and the proximity to the sea in my local area boosts signal propagation.

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  • New Article – Interview with Esad E77PY

    I had the pleasure of talking to Esad E77PY for a recorded conversation about the E7 POTA special event callsign for Parks on the Air (POTA) activations. You can watch the interview HERE.

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  • New Article – Improving your QRZ Page

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    A new guide is live on my website titled “Improving your QRZ Page”. The guide covers how to format your page, useful information to include in your biography, how to add images and set featured images and how to embed useful tools such as POTA Statistics and Clublog OQRS into your QRZ page.

    You can view the guide HERE (link opens in new tab).

    So far, I have received positive feedback from the guide, and I hope it will be useful for you.

    73 de M7OJA.

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  • E7POTA – Special Callsign for Parks on the Air (POTA)

    The special callsign E7POTA from Bosnia-Herzegovina is now active on the HF bands for the Parks on the Air (POTA) program.

    E7POTA and OE/E7POTA will be active across the HF bands on SSB and FT8/FT4. Keep an eye on the POTA cluster HERE (link opens in new tab) for information. The callsign is also active on Facebook and you can follow them HERE (link opens in new tab).

    An award scheme for the special callsign is also available, awarding diplomas for making QSOs with the station. Details of the award scheme is available on their website HERE.

    I am pleased to have received the Bronze Award so far, and I will continue to work the callsign in their POTA activations.

    I had the pleasure of interviewing Esad E77PY, one of the activators and leaders of the E7POTA callsign. You can view the interview HERE (link opens in new tab).

    E7POTA Bronze Award – M7OJA. Thanks to E7POTA

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  • Sunday 9th March 2025

    Despite a minor solar storm causing disruption and poor propagation on HF, I enjoyed operating today. I achieved 200 QSOs on Sunday, including 60 Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) contacts, 11 Parks on the Air (POTA) contacts and a new DXCC (Cocos Keeling Island) on 20m SSB.

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