Week 3

With the start of week three of this challenge, I have decided I need to work harder on becoming a better operator. To assist myself with this, I have started to force myself to make at least one phone contact per day. Unfortunately, where I am operating from in town, my radio has a noise floor at about S5 or S6, making it nearly impossible for me to hear phone contacts. But when I do POTA activations, the noise floor is really lo,w so I am able to make phone contacts, and I have made sure to make at least one phone contact per 

POTA Activations

This week was my first activation of Boysen State Park, and my second and third as well. I have found that one spot in Boysen State Park is the closest POTA spot to my house, so I will probably be activating it pretty frequently. I may even try to make it my first 20-activation spot.

This past weekend (17th and 18th) was a support your parks weekend, so I decided to make sure I activated as much as I could to help hunters and increase my park-to-park numbers.

Totals

I have been trucking along with my radio operating. I have been able to keep up with both operating every day and hitting my 52 contact target. I have also been making contacts every day. Of course, due to the high noise floor of my QTH, I have been operating mostly in WSJT-X modes FT8 and FT4. So far, I have been averaging right at 100 contacts per week.