"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.
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.
@ai6yr There is one POTA park that might plausibly be within bicycle range from here, Chelsea State Game Land K-6643. At worst I could drive to the nearby town with my bike in the back, park at the trailhead, and bike in on the Border to Border Trail.
https://pota.app/#/park/K-6643
Of course there are tons of #AAPOTA ("Ann Arbor Parks On The Air") parks in town - 160+ ! - so I will get lots of practice before doing a #POTA trip.
cc @w8tam
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/
cc @kb6nu
Further continuing the #POTA / #NOTPOTA / #AAPOTA experiment from https://mastodon.radio/@w8emv/111741213324389151
I'm about 15% (23 of 160+) done making a numbering plan for Ann Arbor parks, and I'm using #arborwiki to publish the work to date.
https://localwiki.org/ann-arbor/Ann_Arbor_Parks_On_The_Air
In parallel I'm working on an annotated PDF based on the official 2023 city park list.
Arborwiki is kind of old in spots, but fortunately parks don't change all that much. The plan is to edit as I go to include radio operations.
#POTA thought experiment. 1. Make a list of municipal parks in my area - start with City of Ann Arbor because that's here - numbered sequentially from AA-001 (Allmendinger Park) to AA-161 (Wurster Park). The list at https://www.a2gov.org/departments/Parks-Recreation/GIVE365/Documents/2023%20Visit%20Every%20Park%20Guide.pdf will be authoritative once a sequence is added. 2. Publish the list in convenient formats. 3. Call CQ PARKS AT PARK AA-024 BURNS PARK 4. Hope to reach someone else at a city or county park. 5. Follow good amateur practice. #POTA #NOTPOTA #annarbor
Ed W8EMV 
