Kiting 2024

What a strange summer it has been for kite flying as the wind has just refused to cooperate. For the most part, winds have either been only a whisper, or a kite-shredding strong. It seems that when I’ve been able to fly (weekends), we’ve had almost no perfect kite wind days. Temperatures have been unseasonably cool this summer. It would have been great to get out and fly if only the wind would have cooperated.

Now as we move into fall, we will get very gusty days. Fall winds here in Nebraska are very seldom smooth and steady. This is were we live, and we make the best of what we get.

Ham Radio 2024

I used to play an online multiplayer game called “World Of Tanks”. I had gotten fed up with where the developers had moved the game so I quit playing. With the extra time I had by not playing that game, the ham radio has been getting more attention.

I’m not one with much of a “gift of gab” so I do better if I have a “reason” to get on the air. I have found fun in “hunting” POTA activations, and POTA gives me good reason to get on the air. POTA stands for “Parks On The Air”. POTA is an organization that has an approved list of mostly state and national parks that hams can visit and set up portable radio stations to contact other hams known as “hunters”. Local parks do not qualify, and are not approved as POTA parks.

I am currently working on getting set up so I can “activate” a park myself. I have a couple approved parks only about 20 miles from me. I’ve been working on portable antenna systems, and organizing gear to make activating happen. Check back for that.

Scott