{"id":21537,"date":"2016-09-25T07:46:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T11:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21537"},"modified":"2016-09-25T07:46:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T11:46:53","slug":"npota-activations-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/npota-activations-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"NPOTA Activations this morning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21538\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Elecraft-KX2-AppalachainTrail-NPOTA-TR01.jpg\" alt=\"elecraft-kx2-appalachaintrail-npota-tr01\" width=\"412\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Elecraft-KX2-AppalachainTrail-NPOTA-TR01.jpg 412w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Elecraft-KX2-AppalachainTrail-NPOTA-TR01-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re around the radio this morning (Sunday, Sep 25), and you&#8217;d like to make some NPOTA contacts, note that I plan activate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/grsm\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Great Smoky Mountains<\/a>\u00a0(NP26) &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/appa\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Appalachian National Scenic Trail<\/a>\u00a0(TR01) starting around 13:30 UTC (9:30 EDT),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/grsm\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Great Smoky Mountains<\/a>\u00a0(NP26) &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/blri\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Ridge Parkway<\/a>\u00a0(PK01) starting around 15:00 UTC (11:00 EDT) and hopefully<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/trte\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Trail of Tears National Historic Trail<\/a>\u00a0(TR12) around 16:00 UTC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Look for me around 14,286 kHz and 7286 kHz +\/- 6 kHz.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I&#8217;ll operate the lightweight\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/elecraft-kx2\">Elecraft KX2<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/eft-trail-friendly-antenna\/\" target=\"_blank\">EFT Trail-Friendly<\/a> combo&#8211;and that&#8217;s a good thing. To activate these sites, I&#8217;ll log <em>at least<\/em> 1 hour 15 minutes of hiking (the AT portion over steep terrain). Having a small radio package makes the experience much more enjoyable!<\/p>\n<p>I hope to hear you on the air or, perhaps, you&#8217;ll hear me. I expect there will be a lot of NPOTA activators in the field today. \u00a0Should be a lot of fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re around the radio this morning (Sunday, Sep 25), and you&#8217;d like to make some NPOTA contacts, note that I plan activate: Great Smoky Mountains\u00a0(NP26) &amp;\u00a0Appalachian National Scenic Trail\u00a0(TR01) starting around 13:30 UTC (9:30 EDT), Great Smoky Mountains\u00a0(NP26) &amp;\u00a0Blue Ridge Parkway\u00a0(PK01) starting around 15:00 UTC (11:00 EDT) and hopefully Trail of Tears National Historic [&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":[4102,5089,5088,1303],"class_list":["post-21537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","tag-ham-radio","tag-national-parks-on-the-air","tag-npota","tag-qrp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Bn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21515,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/great-smoky-mountains-national-park-four-npota-activations-planned-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":21537,"position":0},"title":"Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Four NPOTA activations planned today","author":"Thomas","date":"September 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Around noon (EDT) today, I'll start my short journey to the\u00a0W4DXCC conference in Sevierville, TN. En route, I'll pass\u00a0through three National Parks: the\u00a0Blue Ridge Parkway, The\u00a0Appalachian National Scenic Trail\u00a0and the\u00a0Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It's a beautiful drive and the weather appears to be near-ideal--clear skies. 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The road trip afforded me several opportunities to make NPOTA activations through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I took my field kit which included the Elecraft KX2, QRP Ranger battery pack (not pictured), and EFT Trail-Friendly antenna. 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You might recall, I activated the site Sunday as well. I'll plan to use the Elecraft KX2 and EFT TRail-Friendly antenna combo once again. 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