Out on my bicycle this afternoon for a little ride to a city park. Thanks to #KE8BZJ for answering my call on 2 meters.

POTA of a sort, though not "real POTA" - I used a repeater, and it wasn't a state or national park - but still really nice to do radio from that park and I'll do it again.

Closest #POTA park is K-1513 (Lakelands Trail) which is about half an hour away by car. A 2024 goal to activate there.

Another bicycle mobile QSO on 2 meters with Mo #KE8BZJ , this time from EN82eg. We used the #W8FSA repeater again, and Parker Mill County Park is just across the river from St Joe's so that was a very easy repeater to hit.

It's about an hour's ride round trip.

Christmas Day very warm and yesterday's fog had lifted.

The entrance to Parker Mill has the distinctive odor of the water treatment plant nearby, but by the time you get to the mill location the air is sweet again.

cc @w8emv

Bicycle mobile QSO on 2 meters with #KE8BZJ and #K8LLM from my temporary QTH in EN82ch (Barton Hills Village) into #W8FSA repeater at St Joe's in Ypsilanti. Super foggy out there, but my bike ride was almost entirely on painted bike lanes, protected bike lanes, and separated trails. Pretty nice all in all.

If the weather holds I'm hoping to get to K-1513 Lakelands Trail for #POTA (or if 2m simplex POTA is too hard, just a nice bike ride). Still working on HF bicycle mobile.

cc @w8emv

Nice day in Ann Arbor to be out for a bike ride. I packed an HT (Radioddity GD-77) for the trip around town. APRS track from APRSDroid operating as W8EMV-9.

Nico QSO with Mo #KE8BZJ from the UMich Diag via #N8DUY repeater.

The highlight of the trip was getting new gear (saddle bags) which can hold a bag of groceries or a computer backpack or (if I plan right) a radio backpack.

I know there's #POTA and #SOTA , is there "bicycles on the air" too?

[ #hamradio #biketooter ]

Put my Radioddity GD-77 and my mag mount 2m antenna in my backpack and headed out on my bike to downtown. Sculpture Plaza in Ann Arbor has a nice big metal sculpture to stick the antenna to.

Thanks to Mo #KE8BZJ who came back on my call to the ARROW repeater on 146.96-. I swapped antenna and mount points a few times and got signal reports back.

Surprised me, but the signal through the "better" antenna was worse.

I have a #NanoVNA and I think this is time to use it.