VE9QRP

  Earlier this year, I discovered 5 POTA parks and one SOTA summit lie on the routes that I like to cycle in the Tantramar region between SE New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada. So for the past few months, I've been building up a bike-mobile kit for QRP POTA work, especially on CW. And on Tuesday, it all came together with the activation of park VE-0100 the Tintamarre National Wildlife Area . While there are patches of this area only about 12km away from my home, I chose to go to the site of area's official sign, down an additional few km of dirt road. The whole route, including a stop for a beer with a friend back in my home town, is on the cycling social media site, Strava . My backpacking seat bag (pictured above) carried everything I needed, including a comfortable camp chair and my near-new IC-705, housed in a bode bottle bag whose front pouch holds both the radio's mic and an N6ARA  TinyPaddle .  The antenna is a simple 20m 1/4 wave vertical with counterpoise of thr