Author: Perry W1GRD

• Product Reviews

Review: Offline Spotter for POTA/SOTA (iPhone)

Perry W1GRDAugust 20, 2025

Offline Spotter is an iPhone app by Kris Linquist W1ADV that allows you to spot yourself in a POTA or SOTA reference using the satellite feature of newer iPhones. It’s […]

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• Site Reviews

US-1196 San Bruno Mountain SP

Perry W1GRDAugust 12, 2025

On Saturdays and Sundays you can drive right up Radio Road to the very top of US-1196 San Bruno Mountain State Park, just a few miles southeast of San Francisco […]

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• Opinion

About Those n-Fers…

Perry W1GRDJuly 26, 2025

The POTAmap here at POTA News & Reviews includes a feature that identifies potential n-fers for a give park. You can see it in the image above, US-6909 Harris State […]

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• How To

How to Use the POTAmap

Perry W1GRDJuly 13, 2025

There's quite a bit of information available on the POTAmap, but to be fair it can be a little tough to figure out the first time you see it. Here are a few quick tip to use the map to your advantage.

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• News

RIP N4NTO Tripp Owens

Perry W1GRDJuly 8, 2025

The POTA community is dealing with the loss of a popular and prolific operator. On the 4th of July, Tripp Owens N4NTO had finished an activation at US-11375 Averasboro Battlefield […]

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• Site Reviews

US-11635 Hyannis Pond WMA

Perry W1GRDJune 9, 2025

There was supposed to be parking for three cars along the southwest corner of Hyannis Pond WMA in Barnstable, Massachusetts. What I found instead were several large pieces of construction […]

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• Site Reviews

US-1704 Old Furnace State Park

Perry W1GRDJune 9, 2025

The 'furnace' part of the park's name refers to an iron smelting furnace that operated on the property in the 1700s. Iron processed here was used to make horseshoes for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. This is an easy park with great views, and an adjacent park if you'd like to go for two.

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• Site Reviews

US-11481 Rainbow Beach WMA

Perry W1GRDMay 28, 2025

The area is every bit as bleak as the photos indicate. There was quite a bit of trash back here, old mattress springs and car parts, and plastic barrels that I had no intention of looking into. Clothing, toys, just a mess. Even the trees look angry here.

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• Site Reviews

US-2416 Ames Nowell SP

Perry W1GRDMay 23, 2025

I’m not a mountain-biker, but boy, do I love those guys. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, and for state parks and forests in my area there are often […]

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• Site Reviews

US-7714 Buck Hill WMA

Perry W1GRDMay 22, 2025

In a remote corner of New England, three state boundaries meet, commemorated by a four-foot granite pillar. It's one of those rare locations where you can walk along with one foot in one state and your other in another!

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• Site Reviews

US-2664 Monadnock State Park

Perry W1GRDMay 15, 2025

This is the mountain that inspired Henry David Thoreau to write, in 1858, “I think I could spend a year on the mountain, wandering over its table-lands or sitting on […]

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• Site Reviews

US-1663 Dinosaur State Park

Perry W1GRDMay 9, 2025

The size and stride, about four feet, of the Eubrontes tracks suggest they were made by a large, meat-eating dinosaur, likely a kind of Dilophosaurus, which lived in the American southwest around the same time.

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