{"id":20837,"date":"2016-08-26T08:05:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T12:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=20837"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:01:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:01:56","slug":"national-parks-on-the-air-activating-pk01-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/national-parks-on-the-air-activating-pk01-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"National Parks On The Air: Activating PK01 this weekend (August 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18897\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18897\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18897\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160519_101759179.jpg\" alt=\"The QRP Ranger (left) and LNR Precision LD-11 transceiver (right)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160519_101759179.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160519_101759179-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160519_101759179-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160519_101759179-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The QRP Ranger (left) and LNR Precision LD-11 transceiver (right)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After two months in Canada and one month spent catching up on work,\u00a0I&#8217;m pleased to make some time this weekend to activate PK01 (the Blue Ridge Parkway) for the ARRL <a href=\"https:\/\/npota.arrl.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">National Parks On The Air (NPOTA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be joined by my good friend, <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/n3cz\/\">Vlado (N3CZ)<\/a>\u00a0on August 28&#8211;we plan to set up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueridgeparkway.org\/v.php?pg=235\" target=\"_blank\">Folk Art Center<\/a> on the parkway around 11:00 EDT and be on the air by 11:30 EDT (15:30 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>I plan to use\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lnrprecision.com\/store\/#!\/LD-11\/p\/64137743\" target=\"_blank\">LNR Precision LD-11<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portableuniversalpower.com\/our-products\/qrp-ranger\/\" target=\"_blank\">QRP Ranger<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lnrprecision.com\/endfedz\/trail-friendly\/\" target=\"_blank\">EFT Trail Friendly Antenna<\/a>\u00a0combo. Vlado will either use his <a href=\"http:\/\/icomamerica.com\/en\/products\/amateur\/hf\/7000\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Icom IC-7000<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenwood.com\/i\/products\/info\/amateur\/ts_480\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kenwood TS-480<\/a> or my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elecraft.com\/KX1\/KX1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Elecraft KX1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Look for us on the following frequencies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CW: +\/- 7031, 14061 kHz<\/li>\n<li>SSB: +\/- 7286, 14286 kHz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Life has been <em>so<\/em> hectic after having been <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/back-at-the-dial-again\/\">on the road for two months<\/a>&#8211;I&#8217;m pleased to <em>finally<\/em> have a moment to play radio in the field again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two months in Canada and one month spent catching up on work,\u00a0I&#8217;m pleased to make some time this weekend to activate PK01 (the Blue Ridge Parkway) for the ARRL National Parks On The Air (NPOTA). I&#8217;ll be joined by my good friend, Vlado (N3CZ)\u00a0on August 28&#8211;we plan to set up at the Folk Art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3],"tags":[5098,2260,5030,4072,5089,5088,5406,5096,4073],"class_list":["post-20837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","tag-eft-trail-friendly-antenna","tag-k4swl","tag-lnr-precision-ld-11","tag-n3cz","tag-national-parks-on-the-air","tag-npota","tag-pk01","tag-qrp-ranger","tag-vlado"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5q5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20935,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/sundays-npota-activation-on-the-blue-ridge-parkway\/","url_meta":{"origin":20837,"position":0},"title":"NPOTA activation on the Blue Ridge Parkway","author":"Thomas","date":"September 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not sure what I'm going to do after the National Parks On The Air\u00a0event is over at the end of this year.\u00a0I hope the ARRL organizes something equally as fun\u00a0for 2017. 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