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Playing Radios at Night: Twenties and the Petroglyph National Monument POTA

 I made one QSO, was heard in Costa Rica, and maybe found a wavelength tall natural antenna tower in Albuquerque. Here's a view from below of the mesa the POTA station was situated on. Park: Petroglyph National Monument POTA  K-0955 . Radio Details: Radio : RockMite 20 Antenna : Halfwave dipole Happenings of Interest   Shyoooo, I was tired. I spent a few minutes debugging the lack of audio when I turned on the radio. In the end, the answer was...... I hadn't plugged in the headphones. I was so tired. It's been a week. Here's the thing though: the antenna was 5.5 ft off the ground during most of the POTA. And, as you might expect from reading any number of ham radio books that exhort the amateur radio neophyte to build a tower as soon as possible, I only made one QSO, to a station a few blocks away. (Actually, I thought that was pretty cool! That might have been the shortest QSO the RockMite ever made.) As you might not have expected—I certainly didn't—the radi...