Amateur Radio Station WV1W

This is an official support page for my book Successful POTA.

I do not make money from links on this page and did not receive free merchandise.

Color Pictures in the book (if reading a paperback or Kindle Paperwhite)

Additions & Updates to Successful POTA:

• Hamstick Guide (PDF) - new Hamstick Tips & Tricks
• Free Radials - perfect for your vertical antenna or hamsticks
• My Take on End-Fed Antennas - half-wave and long wires examined
• Coax for POTA - what matters and what doesn't
• WebSDR for POTA - good RX without local noise
• Logging with uLog - linear parks that cross state lines
• Linear Park Logging - parks that cross state lines
• Uploading Logs - don't email them anymore
• Late Shift Activations - opportunities, challenges and solutions
• FT8 Activations - setting time, dealing with interference
• Spike Mount - perfect for hamstick, Wolf River Coil antenna, etc
• Jaw Mount - perfect for hamstick, Wolf River Coil antenna, etc
• Sporty Forty - Wolf River Coil's new product worth checking out
• Crossbar Mount - Quick/Easy/Inexpensive SUV Antenna Mount
• Yaesu's new FTX-1 - My Thoughts

My POTA Antennas:

• Plug-In Dipole - quick & easy beginner antenna
• Speaker Wire Dipole - cheap and effective
• Tent Pole Vertical - covers 40m to 6m
• Pole Pruner Vertical - self supporting (no tree/mast needed)
• Linked Vertical - fast band changes
• Linked Inverted V - no radials required
• 8-Band Stacked Vertical - get that Activator N1CC award
• T2LT End-Fed Dipole - excellent performance, tiny footprint
• Quad-Band Dipole - covers 75/40/20/15m

Parks On The Air Official Pages:

YouTube Channels (in approximate order of POTA content):

Calculators:

Amateur Radio Companies:

• Alinco
• Elecraft (KX-series QRP radios)
• FlexRadio (SDR transceivers)
• Icom
• Kenwood
• Lab599 (NOT recommended due to Russian invasion/sanctions)
• Yaesu

Amateur Radio Dealers:

• Cheap Ham (carries Alinco radios & LDG tuners)
• DX Engineering (carries SpiderBeam masts)
• GigaParts (carries Bioenno batteries)
• Ham Radio Outlet (carries SuperAntenna kits)
• R&L Electronics
• The Antenna Farm
• Universal Radio

Antennas, Mounts & Accessories:

• American Radio Supply (antennas and mounts)
• Balun Designs (1:1 & 4:1 baluns and end-fed transformers)
• Breedlove Mounts (incredibly strong)
• Buckmaster Antennas (OCF dipoles)
• Buddipole (resonant antenna kits)
• Camco (car foot and hitch mount for mast)
• Chameleon (non-resonant antenna kits)
• Diamond Antennas (HF/VFH/UHF antennas)
• Comet Antennas (HF/VFH/UHF antennas and analyzers)
• Emergency Amateur Radio Club of Hawaii (end-fed antenna project)
• Firestik (assorted 3/8-24 mounts)
• Hy Power Antennas (wire antennas and baluns)
• K1CRA Radio Store (antennas and mounts)
• KWIKGOAL (flag pedestal for ground mount)
• MyAntennas (OCF dipoles, end-fed antennas, baluns & transforers)
• New-Tronics (Hustler mobile HF antennas)
• NI4L Antennas (HF antennas, baluns, rope)
• Pacific Antenna (PAC-12 vertical and trap dipole kits)
• Packtenna (antennas and lightweight feedlines)
• ProComm (ham stick antennas and mounts)
• Quicksilver Radio (antennas, mounts accessories)
• Right Channel Radio (mobile mounts, coax, accessories)
• SuperAntenna (vertical antenna kits and mounts)
• Synthetic Textiles (antenna rope)
• Tarheel Antennas (remote-tune mobile antennas and mounts)
• TheWireman (antenna wire, coax, and connectors)
• Ultimax Antennas (resonant end-fed half wave)
• UndergroundRadio99 (hamstick antennas and more)
• Vibroplex (Par EndFedz antennas & SpiderBeam masts)
• Wolf River Coils (Take It Along antenna kits)

Batteries:

• Amped Outdoors (12v LiFePO4 batteries)
• Batteries+Bulbs (12v SLA batteries)
• BioennoPower (12v LiFePO4 batteries)
• ECI Power (12v LiFePO4 batteries)
• Expert Power (12v LiFePO4 batteries)
• Ionic (12v LiFePO4 batteries)
• Walmart (12v U1 battery)

Ham Software:

• ADIF Master from DX Shell (CSV <-> ADIF)
• PZTLog by M0PZT (use on desktop/larger screen)
• uLog by M0PZT (use on netbook/small screen)
• Log Editing Instructions by WV1W