POTA GB-3693 Hawthorne Dene SSSI 2025-07-29
POTA GB-3693 Hawthorne Dene SSSI 2025-07-29

POTA GB-3693 Hawthorne Dene SSSI 2025-07-29

Camping up in the North east and the camp site was right next to this park. The day before had taken a walk through it and noticed we all had no phone signal, so this was going to be a fun park to activate.

Headed in the park and off the paths to find somewhere to set up and start.

I started with  SSB but was having no luck so it looked like it was to be a digital only activation. I moved to FT8 and saw in the decodes another POTA operator and managed to get a contact so got a Park to Park with Spain.

The contacts kept coming but slowly and the insects had come out, and I was getting bitten.

Manged to hunt another park and get it in the log but after an hour I had been bitten too much and packed up quickly and headed back to the campsite for a well-earned beer.

Operation Details
Park: https://pota.app/#/park/GB-3693
Grid square: IO94it
WAB square: NZ44
Working Conditions
Icom IC-705
Icom AH-705
Sotabeams tactical mini
Sotabeams EFLW
Ham2K Polo
Operation Totals
10 QSOs
5 DXCC Entities
3 Band and 2 modes
40m – 4 FT8
30m – 2 FT8
20m – 2 FT8, 2 FT4

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