Messy cleanup at POTA US-4578

Yesterday's activation ended up with 1 QSO in the next UTC day.

Turns out this creates a new activation with just that 1 and shows up as incomplete.

Stat carnage.

Clearly unacceptable.

I don't know if it was because I was rushing, there was a lot of QRM, or I was getting WFD responses that were confusing me, but I don't think I've had this hard a time copying in a while.

I also had a couple of busted calls which I was pretty confident I copied correctly :confused:

FT891 @ 100W; homebrew 49:1 EFHW; BamaTech TP-III

9 QSOs (7 on 15m, 2 on 20m)

45min

Ended on a high note with a call from Italy. Grazie, Alberto :)

 - U

Car service drop-off and POTA US-4578

 I thought there would be more band congestion due to WFD :shrug:

FT891 @ 100W; homebrew 49:1 EFHW; BamaTech TP-III
27 QSOs (8 on 15m, 19 on 20m)
90min

 - U

POTA US-4571 Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail CA

Meh band conditions.
Probably should have started on 15m and not jumped to 40m that early.

FT891 @ 100W; homebrew 49:1 EFHW; BamaTech TP-III

11 QSOs (10 on 20m, 1 on 40m)

37min

 - U

POTA US-4578 Pony Express National Historic Trail CA

I didn't even think to look at the POTA trails close to our QTH - turns out there's two going through parks really close by!

These are going to become my go-tos for quick activations.

FT891 @ 50W; homebrew 49:1 EFHW; BamaTech TP-III
22 QSOs, including a few hunts

15m - MN, KY, WY, MI, OH, Japan, CO, VA, AR, OK

17m - NE (1st P2P with WB0RLJ, woot)

20m - BC, OR, AR, AZ, CA, WA, WI, NC, TX

Activation between errands.

I could get used to this :)

 - U

Fox Den at Chalco Hills

Thanks again WB0RLJ.
Legend.

 - U