POTA GB-3999 Jacob Smith Park 2025-03-29
POTA GB-3999 Jacob Smith Park 2025-03-29

POTA GB-3999 Jacob Smith Park 2025-03-29

3rd and final park of hopeful 5 or 10 park rove. Conditions were not in my favour, oh well.

I got to this park and parked on a nearby side street, expectations were low after the last park, but I was very surprised how nice this park was. Lots of open grass, a few nice big trees and lots of people walking dogs.

One tree had a fence around it so I used that to fasten the mast too. Got the radio on and started called calling CQ on 40 SSB and got a contact, after about 25 minutes and no more contacts I moved to digital.

40 mins later with 11 in the log I called it day for the park and the rove. It was 11:11 and having started at 07:00 in Wetherby and only 3 parks activated I knew it not going to happen today. Oh well there will be other days.

I packed up and went home to warm up and get some lunch.

Operation Details
Park: https://pota.app/#/park/GB-3999
Grid square: IO94ga
WAB square: SE35
Working Conditions
Icom IC-705
Icom AH-705
Sotabeams tactical mini
Sotabeams EFLW
Ham2K Polo
Operation Totals
11 QSOs
9 DXCC Entities
3 Band and 3 modes
40m – 1 SSB
30m – 4 FT8
20m – 6 FT4
Map of contact by M0LZN

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