The weather here in Kansas City continues to be insanely nice for December, so I’m continuing to try to make use of the opportunity to do as much POTA as possible (especially since I’m going to be out of the country for most of January). This morning I went out to Miami State Fishing Lake (US-7391), which is about 45 minutes south of Kansas City, near Osawatomie and Paola.
The lake itself is really nice – it’s very remote, and there are a bunch of man-made “piers” with camp sites and fire pits, as well as a boat launch and vault toilet. I set up on one of the piers overlooking the lake, with my nice new POTA work pad that my XYL got me for Christmas.
I started on 20 meters and had about 60 calls from the United States and Ontario. After about an hour, I switched to 15 meters and immediately had several DX calls – the first person to call me on 15 meters was from Belgium, and I also had a call from Italy and a park-to-park from England. This was my first time using the antenna on 10 and 15 meters – it worked great on all three bands.
