[TVARC] Today’s POTA Report

[Steven Roth]

Great to be chasing you these last days.  Great operating!!  Hope to
catch you again.

73's from Virginia, Steve - AD4K



On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM George via TVARC <tvarc at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> What a morning! I left the hotel a little after 6AM in intermittent light
> rain for my 2-mile drive to the Finn Pond Wildlife Management Area. I set
> up in the trunk of the rental car, and everything was fine except that the
> ring connector on the counterpoise didn’t make connection with the base of
> the vertical antenna. The antenna tuned fine through the rig’s antenna
> tuner, but I probably lost a few dB on my signal.
> So, enough whining. Here are some stats.  21 QSOs on 20M, net of two
> duplicates.  29 QSO’s on 40M, net of 2 duplicates.  The duplicates occurred
> because I was trying to move fast, so I didn’t always wait for the caller
> to confirm receipt of my RRR. My bad, but that’s how I made 50 contacts.
> And here’s the really cool and gratifying part:  10 of my 50 Q’s were with
> TVARC members!  There were at least 3 additional members who didn’t make it
> into my log.
> I would have operated longer, but I had a hard stop at 8:30. Plus it
> started raining again.
> Oh, and the orange shirt - I was in a hunting area after all!
> So, until next time,
> 73,
> George K2DM/0
>
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