My first POTA activation using SSB was fun. The sun was shining and the temperature above freezing, making it feel like spring, in spite of the high piles of snow. My friend Pat VE3EUR and I were at Hogs Back park on the Rideau river in Ottawa. I used a K2 running 15w to a vertical and managed to get as far as Spain and Barbados. I enjoyed talking with ops whom I had worked on data or CW.