POTA has a new look to me now.

Once I reached 1,000 parks hunted the activity started to take on new meaning to me.  Running a compromise station getting others to hear me can be a challenge.  I noticed many of the same parks were being activated by the same station over and over again.  I get it, an activation is an activation so go where it is easiest.  But why get in a pileup to work the same station in the same park for the twentieth time?  So now I view my POTA hunting as follows:

• If I have a park in the POTA site’s log I will not get in a pileup to work it again.
• If the activator appears not to be getting calls, I will call no matter how many times he is in the log.  My contact may be needed for the ten (probably not).
• I like using my one to five watt radios to call parks so I will call any park at all with those radios even if I worked it 100 times.

Some other POTA related items.

• At the time of this posting the POTA site’s log shows that I have 1,236 parks hunted.
• I would like to activate a park at some point.
• I watch too many Ham Radio YouTube videos.  At times they add to the activity’s appeal, but at times I think they detract from it.  (Just my opinion.)