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Activation 8 – The Fort That Held
Fort Boonesborough State Park – US-1256 Activation Date – 23 September 2026 A fine mist greeted me this morning. It was welcome, to be honest, given the extremely hot temperatures the week before. I was at Fort Boonesborough, another stop on my quest to put all 44 of Kentucky’s state parks on the air for… Continue reading
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Activation 6 – The Slowest News in America
Blue Licks Battlefield State Park – US-1264 Activation Date – 09 September 2026 The contact that made my morning came in from the high desert of southwestern New Mexico. I marked it in the log, sat back on that breezy ridge, and thought about how long that same thirteen hundred miles used to take. This… Continue reading
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Activation 7 – The One That Got Away
Kincaid Lake State Park – US 1261 Activation Date – 09 September 2026 I had spent this activation, like the others thus far, hunting other parks for a park-to-park contact. Fifteen meters had been quiet for POTA all afternoon — and then, for a few minutes, it wasn’t. Out of the hiss came a station… Continue reading
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Activation 5 – The Bard Who Maybe Never Came
My Old Kentucky Home State Park – US-1267Activation Date – 21 August 2026 Contact number ten clawed its way through the noise — a voice somewhere out there shoving his callsign past the roar of a four-lane highway that was doing its level best to bury him in the noise. Ten is the magic number… Continue reading
Activating the Bluegrass
Follow along as I put every Kentucky state park on the air — the smooth activations, the ones fought tooth-and-nail against the noise, and the stories from the folding chair.