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Jul 06

Introducing: Midnight Runners.

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A new activity to make you the envy of the parish like the 12 Metre Freestyle Gangster you are! “What do you know about 24MHz?”“Magic. Whole lotta magic.” Cyrus. The Warriors. 1979. This weekend just past I set out on a SOTA activation. My first in a couple of months. This was to be no […]

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Jun 29

Failed Activations Are (Sometimes) The Best Activations.

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When missing your quota isn’t the end of the world. On the afternoon of Wednesday June 24th, 2026, I failed a POTA activation. It wasn’t my first, and it most certainly will not be my last. Indeed my first portable radio operation of any kind was a failure. One solitary contact after the effort of...

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