Individual Operating Stories

From November 11 2025 to December 13, 2025 I activated park  CA-5548, Blackie Spit.  It took 20 visits to accumulate 1217 contacts from all over North America, with added contacts from Australia, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Hawaii, France, Spain, & Finland.

From April 001,2024 to November 8 2024  I visited Stuart Farm & activated Park # CA-6382.  It took 31 visits to accumulate 1006 contacts.  Here are some photos from that experience

I am working on getting the various repeat offender awards in the POTA program at Redwood Park. The awards are gained for each set of twenty activations in the park. Here is my story for reaching my first level - 20 activations - at Redwood.

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Following on watching Ralph (VE7OM) activate Peace Arch Park with a Buddipole vertical, Stuart (VA7QB) returned today to put learnings into his modified Buddistick vertical.

A mild success, although the farthest DX was Russia!  Note the pics, Kenwood 480SAT with no tuner, Ralph had been very helpful

On Sept 23, Ralph (VE7OM) activated Peace Arch Park as a POTA site, with his Elecraft K2 as well as Buddipole, configured as a vertical.  Stuart (VA7QB) joined Ralph to find out about the Buddipole abilities as a vertical.  In the meantine, Ralph contacted many POTA stations, including one from

A well known local amateur radio personality, Hiroshi recruited me (from White Rock) and a number of other amateur radio operators to volunteer for the 27th Annual Walk/Run for Prostate Cancer at Burnaby Lake on father's day.  I met radio amateurs from Abbotsford, Delta, Surrey and of course Burnaby

On May 10, 2025, three members of the White Rock Amateur Radio Club joined the Surrey Radio Club at Crescent park for their annual Fox Hunt.  After a warm welcome by the Surrey club and some instructions on hunting foxes, we headed off into a dark and wet forest to look for our prey.

Our mission

Jim & Eric drove to the Bird Sanctuary on Westham Island to activate the park in the Parks-on-the-Air program. This location qualifies as two parks as the Reifel Bird Sanctuary resides within the  Alaksen wildlife area which is also in the POTA list. For this activation we used Jim's equipment. The

In late January Jim & Eric set out in Jim's truck to activate two parks in the Chilliwack area. Island 22 regional Park sits alongside the Fraser River and offers some nice views of the river and mountains to the north. Fairfield Park in an urban park in the northern part of Chilliwack. We first set

This is my first solo / mobile activation of park CA- 3454, Campbell Valley Regional Park.  I had just fabricated a bracket to hold my mast that plugs into my front mounted truck hitch.  I used an off centre fed dipole made by Spiderbeam.  I transmitted on a Kenwood TS-140 with an LDG AT-100 Pro