"Fix Your Radio Hour" a success, except I forgot to take a photo of my operating position at Burns Park in Ann Arbor under the shelter. (Very civilized, with a picnic table to set up on, and a handy nail to hang my 2 meter roll-up J-pole antenna.)

I have borrowed a #XieguG90 to use as a portable HF station, and I have an offer to borrow an end-fed random wire antenna. This would be the park to operate all that from. The #G90 is in a very nice go kit.

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Scoping out Ann Arbor parks for a weekday morning activation - I think the next one will be Fritz Park which has lots of trees and good elevation (285m, or about 30m more elevation than home) for a 2 meter QSO.

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Ann Arbor is celebrating its bicentennial this year, and one of the parks was recently renamed Bicentennial Park, and now I'm scheming to operate a special event station from there.

https://www.a2gov.org/departments/Parks-Recreation/parks-places/Pages/SoutheastArea.aspx

Has anyone ever done this? I see directions at the FCC.

https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-division/amateur-radio-service/special-event-call-signs

cc @kb6nu who put this idea in my head, and @w8tam

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Headed out to Burns Park AA-023 this morning to work the weekly morning roundtable on #N8DUY 145.15- , with Jim #W8STX net control.

It was windy and I had a lot of wind noise on my mic until I got under the shelter. I hung up my #N9TAX roll-up J-pole, connected it to my #Quansheng HT, with good reception reports.

A strap to put around a tree so that I can hang the J-pole from it would be a useful addition to the kit.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/edward-vielmetti/53557676763/in/datetaken/

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cc @kb6nu

Postman's Rest Park, lovely place to watch the sunrise and play radio.

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Operating notes: AA-001 Allmendinger Park, Ann Arbor Parks On The Air

https://vielmetti.typepad.com/w8emv/2024/02/operating-notes-aa-001-allmendinger-park-ann-arbor-parks-on-the-air.html

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The ARROW Monday night net starts at 800p on the #W8RP 146.96- repeater, located atop Wolverine Tower in Ann Arbor.

I'm planning to activate Esch Park AA-048 for tonight's net. The test will be whether I can do QRPp or QRPpp operations on 2 meters - WoTo is very close, nearly line of sight. My Kenwood TH-22AT low power setting is something like 50 milliwatts.

https://localwiki.org/ann-arbor/AA-048

cc @w8tam

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Bicycle portable from Allmendinger Park AA-001 in Ann Arbor

#N9TAX roll-up J-pole antenna attached to a play structure, signal report is "full quieting" at 5 watts into the #N8DUY repeater.

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2 meters bicycle portable this morning before work with a 5 watt Kenwood TH-22AT HT into an N9TAX roll-up J-pole antenna hung on a play structure at Allmendinger Park AA-001 in Ann Arbor.

Checked in to the 800a morning net on #n8duy , very good signal reports once I tightened the UHF-to-BNC connector.

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