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Learning CW the Hard Way - Back to Coronado National Forest (POTA)

This activation brought me back to one of my favorite locations in the Coronado National Forest for my second valid CW (Morse code) POTA activation, and the first one I’ve captured on camera. Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:20 - Drive Up to the Park 05:41 - Arriving at the Park & Setup 00:27:20 - Start of Activation 01:32:53 - End of Activation For this outing, I ran the IC-705 with a CHA-MICRO and CHA-PORTAMAST from the CHA-TDL kit. Using Chameleon’s modular antenna system, I deployed an 80-meter end-fed half-wave and operated CW on 40 meters, logging 10 valid contacts. As a newer CW operator, this activation was very much a learning experience. I initially relied on a mix of listening and tooling to get through exchanges, typing callsigns into my logging software as stations came back. These entries were automatically cross-referenced with QRZ and supported by the CW decoder in SDR-Control, connected to the IC-705 over Wi-Fi. As the activation progressed, I built enough confidence copying by ear to rely less on the decoder and trust what I was hearing. I’m still new to CW and very much in the learning phase, but this activation represents real field experience, incremental progress, and the kind of on-air practice that only comes from getting out and operating. If you’re considering CW for POTA or working through the early stages yourself, this is an honest look at what that process can look like. Thanks for coming along. 📡 CW • 🌲 POTA • 🏕️ Coronado National Forest • 🎧 Learning Morse Code in the Field