Traveled to Texas and met up with Mike K8MRD to do a couple of POTA activations. Stephen F. Austin State Parks K-3058 and San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site K-6602. Started out with new radio Xiego G106 and the Ham Stick Pro. Also the IC-705 and then the IC-7300 and move to PackTenna EFHW. Lets see hoe it all went.

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