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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!

POTA Plan - 1H 2025

Upcoming Parks on the Air Activations

1H 2025 POTA Activation Schedule

Below is the list of the upcoming W5LVC POTA Activations and their locations:


January

No POTA activation planned - it's WFD month


February

2/22/25 - US-4423 Spring Creek FSP - COMPLETED

Activation successful! Thank you Rick WQ5H and Colin N5GG for activating the Forest Preserve on a cold Saturday morning! From now on the weather is likely to be more conducive for outdoors activities.


March

3/22/25 - US-3051 Ray Roberts Lake SP - COMPLETED

Great spring day in the park! Another successful activation.

We activated 3 bands (20m, 17m, 15m) on 3 modes (CW, FT8, SSB) and netted over 50 QSOs.

Thank you Greg NE5GT, Rick N5DTF, Lynn AC5T, Sandra PU2WTY and Colin N5GG for the effort. We are already looking forward to the overnighter! Come and join the fun.


April

4/12/25 - US-3051 Ray Roberts Lake SP - COMPLETED

Another fantastic spring day in the park! And another activation in the bag.

LARA activated several bands using both CW and SSB and we had a lot of fun since several family members also joined us. This time we had Greg NE5GT, Rick WQ5H, Sandra PU2WTY and Colin N5GG manning the W5LVC activation. After the Saturday operation we visited with the LAARK team that was also activating the park at the same time and had a great reunion! If you missed this one, please come and join us for the May activation!


May

5/18/25 - (This is going to be a SUNDAY morning activation) US-2996 Cedar Hill SP


June

No POTA activation planned - it's Summer Field Day month

Current POTA Activation Plan and Past Activation Reports

Plan of upcoming POTA activations and Activation Reports showing some previous POTA Activations. 

LARA - POTA - State Park Activation Plan 1H2025 (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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