Chillycon - 2025...

Next week (Wednesday) I'm off to the annual Chillycon gathering of QRPers at Rideau River Provincial Park. This will be the 15th time I have attended the event, and I look forward to it every year. So far the weather forecast is looking good, with no rain expected during the week we are there.

The numbers of attendees at the gathering has dropped some since covid hit us, but hopefully it will start to recover. We are expecting a large crowd to be camping for the weekend, and several others coming out to visit on the Saturday.              

I have several new (to me) POTA parks that I wish to activate, and I'm planning on doing that on Thursday and Friday. Saturday will be spent visiting other attendees and talking radios and antennas. Sunday we do a brunch at a local restaurant and then head home, fired up and ready for next year.

The parks I'm planning on operating from are:

Pine Grove Forest Conservation Area - CA-1579

McCarthy Woods Natural Area - CA-1506

Central Experimental Farm - CA-5095

Hogs Back Conservation Reserve - CA-1596

If I get the time I might also try to activate:

Mer Bleue Conservation Reserve - CA-1516

Mer Bleue Bog Conservation Reserve - CA-1515

These parks are also VEFF Parks and I will submit my logs to them as well.

This weekend will be spent getting my camping equipment sorted out and ready to go. That shouldn't take too long as I just used it for Field Day.

Look for my writeup and pictures after I get home.

Stay Safe Out There!!