I’m looking at picking up this hobby again after (another) long break. I had a lot of fun doing radio activities at a Scout camp with a great group of kids. I’ve looked back over my notes from many years ago, and I found a list of things I wanted to accomplish with this hobby.

Some of the things on the list I’ve already accomplished:

• I got a new ham on the air for the first time!
• I got VHF/UHF installed in my truck.
• I listened to ham traffic on a satellite (ok, didn’t make a contact that way, but half credit).
• Attempted a SOTA from Cloudland Canyon (well, it looks like a mountain, half credit again).
• Go on a foxhunt.

My original list was quite ambitious. Here are some of the ones I still want to try, either soon or someday:

• Do a SOTA activation on top of Stone Mountain,
• and from a mountain near Cloudland Canyon,
• and from Kennesaw Mountain.
• NPOTA and IOTA while we’re at it.
• Figure out how to do portable HF operations.
• Make an overseas contact.
• Make a satellite contact.
• Make a packet/data contact.
• Get another new ham on the air.
• Learn Morse code (this never seems to stick).
• Get VHF/UHF installed in the new car.
• Get a home station set up for HF/VHF/UHF.
• Near space photography with a weather balloon.

Of course, time is at a premium, and I won’t be able to tackle all or even most of this list this year, but it will be fun to look back in a few years’ time and see what items I can check off and what new ideas I can add.