This activation wouldn't have been possible without the kindness of Mike (NI2S) and the Azalea Coast Amateur Radio Club (http://www.ac4rc.org/). Thank you so much, Mike, for working with my vacation schedule and enduring the exceptionally hot and humid weather.

I mention in the video that Patreon (  / qrpswl  ) and Coffee Fund  support actually paid for this vacation with my family and even the tuitions for the residential programs my daughters enjoyed at NCSU and UNCW. After I pay the bills for running my sites and producing videos, the rest goes into my family fun account so we all get to enjoy the fruits from this QRPer's labor of love. Thank you!

Also, please note that because I placed a wireless mic in a protected area, close to the speaker of the transceiver, the audio from the video is much clearer and with much less wind noise than I experienced as an operator. I'm super pleased the audio came out as good as it did in that noisy envirnment.

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Thanks for watching!
72,
Thomas
K4SWL

Chapters:

Intro: 0:00:00
Meeting Mike and Walking Down to Radio Room: 0:03:23
Radio Central: 0:08:06
Guarded Encryption and Decryption Room: 0:11:05
Radio Room Set Up: 0:13:39
POTA Activation: 0:16:10
QRT: 1:15:45
PostActivation with Mike: 1:19:00
The Antenna: 1:24:35
Summary and Thank you: 1:25:52