Get Outdoors - You do not need to be in a ham shack

Field Day

ARRL Field Day on the last full weekend of June and Winter Field Day on the last full weekend of January
are a couple of events hams do outdoors....well.... at least the June Field Day ;)
Androscoggin Amateur Radio Club and Oxford ARES Field Day in June 2016
Oxford ARES Trailer at Lewiston-Auburn(Maine) Airport Field Day in June 2016

APRS Mapping

I enjoy walking on trails and using ham radio both at the same time. I have a Yaesu FT1DR HT(Handheld Transceiver) with APRS and GPS built in. The GPS in the HT is more accurate the Garmin eTrex 10 GPS receiver I have, but I find recording waypoints easier with the eTrex 10. Pete N1ZRL in picture below with a APRS client program called XASTIR running on a laptop logging me as WE1U-6 by APRS.
Pete N1ZRL with a APRS setup in the back of the vehicle

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