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Lewisville Amateur Radio Association (L.A.R.A.)

Objectives

  • To bring the LARA member community together by promoting a monthly outdoor POTA activation around the various Texas State Parks surrounding the DFW Metroplex area.
  • This activity also allows members that do not have HF stations or license privileges to operate on the HF bands to experience the different bands/modes by using the W5LVC call sign.
  • Main objective is to HAVE FUN, enjoy the outdoors, camaraderie and make QSOs in the process!

POTA Activation Plan - 2H 2025

Upcoming Parks on the Air Activations

2H 2025 POTA Activation Schedule

Below is the list of the upcoming W5LVC POTA activation dates, locations and status:


July

7/26 - COMPLETED

Ray Roberts Lake SP

It was a warm morning and we had several people show up at the park for the activation. W5LVC operated all modes, CW, SSB and FT8, logging over 50 QSOs. Thank you Rick, Greg, Rhonda, Sandra, Tom, Michael, Brandon, Josh, Gege, Clark, Colin and others that showed up for the effort!


August - COMPLETED

8/23

Dinosaur Valley SP

Thank you Greg, Michael, Rhonda, Sandra and Colin for showing up and participating in another successful LARA POTA activation!

This time we activated from a nice meadow in the park, in the "Amphitheatre" area, which was empty despite the fact the park being heavily visited! We were able to activate CW and SSB and got 40 QSOs in the log, of those 16 were Park-to-Park contacts! After the activation the crew had a great late-lunch at the nearby Loco Coyote restaurant, where one burger could feed about three...


September

9/20

Lake Tawakoni SP


October

10/11

Cedar Hill SP


November

11/15 and 11/16 - overnight

Lake Arrowhead SP


December

12/13

Spring Creek FSP

Images from the latest POTA activations

    Current POTA Activation Plan

    Download the PDF file with all the details for the current semester's POTA Activation Plan

    LARA - POTA - State Park Activation Plan 2H2025 (pdf)Download

    POTA Presentations

    Member presentations about POTA, Go-Kits, etc.

    Lab599 TX-500 POTA SOTA go kit N5GG 092523 (pdf)Download

    POTA Helpful Files and Documents

    Helpful files for POTA activities

    POTA_Checklist_W5LVC (xlsx)Download

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