US Bureau of Land Management

I drove to the BLM Lower Potomac Field Station to try and make sure that it was going to be allowed for me to setup for a POTA activation in the “park” but unfortunatly the station was closed when I arrived. With this in mind I looked on the map and found a nice area called “Hidden Pond”, driving there I managed to see a couple of deer on the road (and eventually they moved to the side of the road, a blessing and a curse of an EV making little to no noise, they didnt seem to be too interested at all!). I arrived and took the trail. About 1KM from the trailhead there were a number of benches in the shade which were perfect for me to setup on. Setup was again about 15 minutes. The bands were not favourable at all. I had a few contacts, but oddly was getting peaks of noise aproximatly S9 when the sun was not behind clouds. However, I still managed to make a number of contacts during this. Today I also used DF3CB’s FLE for logging which again worked well for my self, with this I think being my prefered method of loging for POTA. Converting logs for upload was as simple as saving the file as an ADIF and uploading. I’ve also updated my scripts that generate the file used to draw the map at the bottom of this post, and insert the table at the end of the post, to also use this ADIF, so I have a much simpler log processing process.