The FediFridayWinlinkNet question of the week on 5/31/24 was “What is the most interesting or unique place from which you have operated a #hamradio?” We had some really interesting answers! See the list below.

• From the San Andres Fault right between the Pacific & North American plates
• From a boat in the middle of Oneida Lake in NY was the most interesting place I’ve operated
• Cubi Point Naval Air Station in the Philippines back in 1991, did not have my license at that time, but was instead using another HAM’s license
• Schwarzwald National Park
• Piney Grove Campground on the Tombigbee waterway. I usually run Field Day from the camp but I also listen to the marine bands while barges pass by between the Tennessee River and the Gulf of Mexico
• the dolly sods wilderness in WV — my favorite place!
• APRS On the beach in Waikiki near the Hilton Hawaiian Village
• KC4USV – McMurdo Station Antarctica
• House Mount lookout in Idaho during the 1989 ARRL Field Day. Two photos of mine from that event were featured on two QST covers. November 89 and June 91
• From the roof of a pink WW2 pillbox on the summit Pu’u’ohulu Kai, Oahu, HI
• West Coast USA, with an EFHW at 2ft above the ground running along a wooden guard rail.. working Japanese stations on 20m QRP CW as the mist rolled in
• sent APRS messages from ground via ISS
• 2 Weeks ago on a boat in Ireland, QRV with my X6100
• Copper Harbor, MI. Amazing place to operate
• an Engineers Without Borders trip to rural El Salvador; made ~3 contacts with a G5RV and my 706
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac National Memorial: POTA US-0784
• Probably a coffee shop running packet on my TH-D74
• As a DXpeditioner, I’ve operated from so many interesting places: ZD8 Ascension Island, JW Svalbard, VP2M Montserrat, FP St Pierre et Miquelon, ZC4 UK Sovereign Base Area on Cyprus
• I would say I had very nice experiences doing ham radio in the classroom with equipment that my students had built themselves

Here are the responses to the #FediFridayWinlinkNet question from 05/03/2024: What are your #hamradio weekend plans?

• Eight to ten POTA activations on Friday between Cheyenne and Gillette, WY. Sat I will be roving for the 7QP contest covering 7 Wyoming counties.
• HF & 6M digital
• No radio plans, doing chores and getting ready for a trip to see Mom
• Amateur radio satellites as usual.
• Winlink Activities for multiple Nets
• POTA activation if the weather allows
• None, working this weekend
• No plans yet
• messing around with my linbpq setup for #farpn possibly getting on the air Friday evening as my spouse is out of town and I don’t usually get on the air at night when she’s around.
• pota activations if weather allows, pota hunting if stuck inside
• POTA activation
• Deploy darkmode for our radio club website
• Region 7 is hosting the annual 7QP and I am thinking of visiting one of the local club participants.
• Probably some more 20m(day)/40m(night) JS8Call.
• Installing VHF/UHF in the RV
• Prepping for a wires-x talk. Anyone know anything about wires-x or have a presentation I can steal. I’m going from 0 to hero. I hope.
• Not sure I have any!
• Saturday, work on HF vertical. Sunday, Run For The Zoo communications volunteer
• Busy with yard tasks, so probably just some VHF monitoring.
• Get an antenna up on the ship in preparation for a sea voyage
• Attending a swap meet and hoping to get a PK-88 TNC hooked up and working
• Weather permitting, I’m hoping to stop by our first local hamfest of the season Sunday morning
• Prepare 6m antenna and mast for the start of Sporadic E season, and finish my PCB layouts for a K3NG Rotator controller.Currently on 318 Grids for VUCC 50Mhz, would like to get up to 350 this year.
• FT8 DX and local repeater monitoring