QRP Field Day 2023: A quick tour of our Field Day and POTA portable station! 

All you need is an arborist throw line. It'll change your world in terms of deploying antennas in trees. I promise!

Vlado is an amazing op, you're right! Hey--we'd love for you to settle down here in the mountains of WNC, OM!

Ha ha! A rare occurrence, but I actually do show my face in a few videos and certainly on live streams with other channels. :)

So Field Day has a very defined exchange for the contact to be valid. The other op must log the full contact, the section, and the category (1B, 2A, etc.). While POTA has a convention for exchanges, it is not enforced because POTA isn't a contest. You really only need to log the station, time, mode, and frequency. Field Day (and many contests) don't allow self-spotting, so that day we did not spot ourselves on the POTA network. We simply logged our Field Day contacts per FD requirements, then (with a bit of log tweaking) uploaded the log to the POTA network. Any contact you make at a park--even when the other op isn't a POTA participant--counts as a POTA contact. I might share this reply, by the way, as a post on QRPer.com.

Yes, I have run into RFI/QRM there before. There's actually a building and power lines very close by the main picnic area.

Ha ha!!!

We use Sawyer Permethrin spray on your regular hiking clothes and boots. It's incredibly effective, but you don't want it directly on your skin. I do use DEET in areas where I'm pretty sure I could pick up ticks. If nothing else, I spray it from my knees down, but sometimes on my arms, etc. if going into thick flora.

I wish he did!