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Category: Parks on the Air

  • Pettemerduinen

    Pettemerduinen

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    A quick activation in the dunes during some much needed days away from home. Great success with the QMX though! 5 Watt but it turned out to be plenty. Conditions were great and I got a pretty big pileup in no time at all. Unfortunately they mostly zerobeat and I couldn’t really make out any…

  • Aardzee

    Aardzee

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    Aardzee is the largest land art in the Netherlands, where the ground has been piled up into waves to represent the sea. Pretty apt considering it is located at the bottom of a former sea at -4.5m below sea level. It is a nice break from the flat farmland all around. This is another park…

  • Wisentbos

    Wisentbos

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    I asked PD8F, the POTA country admin for the Netherlands if any parks could be added in Eastern Flevoland as there was only a single one despite all the green areas. Earlier this week he got back to me and informed me he had added nine(!) new parks. One of these is the Wisentbos, which…

  • Boswachterij Nunspeet

    Boswachterij Nunspeet

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    I wanted to set up in a slightly larger area so that I could set up the linked dipole again and test it out with the G90. Turns out the place is still mostly a hole. I had two CW contacts in about 30 minutes and then tried my hand, for the first time during…

  • Roggebotzand

    Roggebotzand

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    A quick activation with the QMX to test out the finished linked dipole. It worked well! It took a little time to find a place to set it up, out of the way, but this was fine. I set up the third guy rope to across the water so I had to jump across a…

  • Hulkesteinse Bos

    Hulkesteinse Bos

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    Last time visiting, the only place that seemed to be part of this park was directly under some power lines or on a campground (private property) so we bailed and moved on. This time though, having investigated the park boundaries more closely on the Staatsbosbeheer (national park management) page, we found an okay out of…

  • Kromslootpark

    Kromslootpark

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    A new attempt. Last time here, I got only six “QSO”s, of which four were the same French station but with a unique Park-to-Park identifier. So in reality just three. Turns out my long 10m coax run was a little off, and most activations where I had used that cable had terrible results. Measuring resistance…

  • Roggebotzand

    Roggebotzand

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    Last time I was here, I got stuck in the quiet zone near the Wilhelminabos, a place of remembrance for cancer survivors. Thankfully, this time around the parking area at the beginning – near the restaurant – was free. There are even two picnic tables, of which we claimed one. Again, a really hard time…

  • PA4PA & Speulder en Sprielderbos

    PA4PA & Speulder en Sprielderbos

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    After a failed activation in this park on the way back on 12 April, I had a mail conversation with PA4PA and we decided to meet up at this park on the Support your Parks-weekend organised by POTA. Instead of making contacts we spent a lot of time talking about our POTA experiences, him being…

  • ‘t Harde (Blaricum)

    ‘t Harde (Blaricum)

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    A short activation on the way to work. There’s a really solid metal fence around the parking which provides a great place to tie a mast to. Which is what I did and combined it with the 10m EFHW. Because I parked a little close at first I had to lean the mast backwards to…