We have a great morning activating park US-9935, the VA Bird and Wildlife Trail at the Rust Nature Sanctuary. Setup started about 815am and we stopped operations just before noon. We had 3 stations and while I don’t have the final numbers, we were between 90 and 100 QSOs. Also 3 operators got their first exposure to FT8 and POTA all in one sitting.
Attendees were:
- Steve, KS1G
- Ron, KB4IQI
- Tareck, K9TRE
- Patrick, KR4VZF
- Rob, KR4EEV
- Jerry, KR4BXO
- Dave, KE4S
- Jim, K4FW and his wife Cindy.
- Steve, N4RAF
We also had some visitors who stopped by as they went out to repair the bluebird houses and expressed some interest in getting their license.

