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My first full POTA activation with the KH1 produced 33 CW contacts and revealed useful field shortcuts, a power question, and the limits of its tuner with my 58-foot doublet.

The unchanged 58-foot doublet made 12 five-watt CW contacts from a pond-side picnic table and again found a usable match on 20 meters.

How I built a continuous-wire 58-foot portable doublet, what its first field measurements established, and the reversible experiment I plan to try next.

A tree-supported 58-foot doublet produced 12 five-watt CW QSOs on four bands, including Spain on 15 meters.

My first NAQP CW entry produced 107 contacts, 53 band multipliers, a 5,671 claimed score, and an unexpectedly useful lesson about running at my own speed.

Slides, learning paths, practice tools, and portable-CW inspiration from my 2026 Northeast HamXposition talk.

A detailed, photo-by-photo assembly guide for the 3D-printed K8CES Zippy paddle, developed while building a batch of 25.

I operated W1AW/1 from Rhode Island on CW, SSB, and FT8, making 253 contacts while helping a small group keep the state findable.

After copying `2TW` during Flight of the Bumblebees, I found a simple way to derive the full set of Morse cut numbers instead of memorizing them one by one.

Planning the location, bands, and a simple resonant wire antenna for my first Flight of the Bumblebees as Bumblebee number 121.

A West Beach lead turns my Block Island FOBB plan toward a saltwater vertical and a careful boundary check for US-0513.

A windy West Beach activation put 62 five-watt CW contacts in the log, including a surprising 15-meter run to Alaska, Oregon, California, and Spain.

A first look at the synchronized NCDXF/IARU beacon network, its stepped-power signals, and two quick ways to choose an HF band from the field.

A shared Florida twofer at Jonathan Dickinson State Park with KO4WTM, 11 CW QSOs on 20 meters, and a close look at a compact EFHW field setup.

A humid Florida hike-in twofer at Ross Prairie with the KX2, a 51-foot end-fed random wire, and 13 CW QSOs across 40, 30, and 20 meters.

Day five added South Carolina and Georgia with three CW activations, a fast Woods Bay run, a quiet Savannah NWR picnic-table stop, and a Jekyll Island beach finish.

Day four moved the rove from Virginia toward South Carolina with two CW activations, a ranger-induced reset at Fredericksburg, and a quiet Medoc Mountain stop.

A walking-and-driving DC rove produced 106 Sunday-route QSOs and cleared the 15-reference POTA Rover Cheetah threshold.

Day two added New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and the DC-area twofer to the rove, with 51 QSOs, an activator meetup, and a late legal-access pivot.

The southbound POTA rove started with three parks, 56 QSOs, a noisy Connecticut stop, and a relaxed evening activation at Tallman Mountain.

A quick US-6982 activation to test the hitch-supported Challenger setup, try SSB on the KX2, and make 17 QSOs before the Rhode Island-to-Florida POTA rove.

A Rhode Island-side activation of US-7971 with 18 CW QSOs, one Alaska contact on 10 watts, and one preventable walk back to the car for missing dipole pigtails.

A breezy Pack Mule activation at US-0516 with the KX2, the KJ6ER Challenger, and 38 quick CW QSOs from the rocks at Sachuest Point.

A local Pack Mule outing at US-6992 with the freshly reassembled KX2, a high 51-foot random wire, and 23 CW QSOs through heavy QSB.

Thirty-seven CW QSOs over the CQ WPX CW weekend, a lot of repeat requests and nerves, and a surprisingly effective way to pick up new DXCC entities.

Three Rhode Island parks with the KX2: 43 CW QSOs, contest congestion at the first stop, a preventable SWR problem at the second, and a fast saltwater finish at sunset.

First outing with the KX2 at US-7715: a hike up the hill to clear the valley, a first-throw throw-line success, and 19 CW QSOs across 40, 30, and 20 meters.

A mile-plus hike into US-6984, a throw-line-supported 40-meter EFHW, and 25 CW QSOs after a slow middle stretch.

A Memorial Day POTA rove through Rhode Island: five stops, six park references, 64 CW contacts, and a few useful lessons.