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Thanks, everyone! All the thoughts have helped me and I will sign up for CW classes in the winter when it gets cold up in New England.

Stom

Thanks everyone for the responses! I do agree that CW and POTA seem like a natural fit. And I do appreciate the fact that FT8 would require bringing along a laptop and associated stuff. Given that my ideal vision would be for CW-POTA, I probably at least try to see if I can learn it, albeit a slow w...

Now that I have retired, I am thinking about entering the world of amateur radio! I like outdoor activities so that POTA/SOTA is highly appealing. To minimize the sound intrusion into a natural area, it seems that the data format (I presume, most likely FT8) would be better than SSB voice. From a ca...