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Portable Activity Day 2023

Portable Activity Day happens on the 1st January in New Zealand. This is a pretty popular day because it's summer break and the country offers many summits, lakes, and parks to activate. Also it's quite convenient that UTC time rolls over at 1pm our time.

At the time of writing, my setup consists of an ex-military Fuchs B25 driving an EFHW antenna. These and accompanying parts are packed into a backpack for lugging around.

It's not by any means an optimized kit for lightweight SOTA activity, but I choose to have a portable HF kit out of pragmatism: get away from the urban noise floor.

For Portable Activity Day 2023 I operated from a beach. It was very enjoyable with many contacts made with other people around the country.


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