In August 2023, we bought a city house after living on a small hobby ranch for 20+ years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a POA neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a no outdoor antennas policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, I’m aware this is not a ham smart move. But there are other things in life. Having a nice home that will hold value and not have junk trade joe move in next door has value. A year+ in, my shack it not truly back online yet. I’ve got an attic installed dipole. It’s less than optimal, but I do hear people over the noise. I’ve talked on a couple of nets successfully. I’m working toward making it better, but new home, new lifestyle, TBH, I just haven’t made much time to pursue the hobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2025 (remember when that was a sci-fi date???<\/em>) is here. One of my goals this year is to get more active in radio again. I got a 2m\/70cm Yaesu FTM-6000R for Christmas. Antenna in the works. This’ll get me connected to at least the local repeaters our the TARC SuperLink repeater network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It seems, until I can spring one of those Stealth Flagpole antennas (extra large of course<\/em>) and afford to install it properly, I seem to be somewhat off of an ideal home shack. Looking at Mag Loop as a possible attic solution to get on at least 20m and do some POTA hunting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My big goal this year is work toward a portable HF rig, so I can go do my first POTA activation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In August 2023, we bought a city house after living on a small hobby ranch for 20+ years. In a POA neighborhood. With a no outdoor antennas policy. Yes, I’m aware this is not a ham smart move. But there are other things in life. Having a nice home that will hold value and not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3,5,7],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-amateur-radio","tag-ham","tag-pota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ki5wwp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ki5wwp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ki5wwp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ki5wwp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ki5wwp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ki5wwp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/ki5wwp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ki5wwp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ki5wwp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ki5wwp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ki5wwp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}