Maryland

The drive to the visitors centre was great, really nice to know that this is here so close to DC, and central Maryland. As per the POTA directions I checked in with the staff, who directed me towards the far end of the carpark and suggested that would be the best place to activate from. Very freindly staff! I didnt realise until later, that there were some park benches near where I parked, and because of this I ended up operating from the trunk of my car, which was not the most comfy! This time I atempted to use HAMRS again for logging, but it appears to like to go to the end of the input box if you replace a character or two, which is a bit unintuitive. This ended up with me making a fair few mistakes on the logging side. Setting up, took about 10 minutes this time. As the weather was quite warm and I was in the boot^WTrunk I enabled my car’s “camp mode”. Whilst the blast of AC’ed air was a welcome relief, it unfortuantly caused a large amount of QRM. I’m not sure if it’s the car’s inverter or the AC, I suspect the former. What went well #The staff at the wildlife refuge were extremley freindly and very welcoming of POTA activators. When went badly #Logging using HAMRS was, for me, a excersise in frustration. I see why people like the application, as there are some really nice features, however some of the “helping” features end up with some odd things happening.