{"id":3861,"date":"2024-08-08T06:20:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T11:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2024-08-09T06:36:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:36:13","slug":"pota-has-a-new-look-to-me-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3861","title":{"rendered":"POTA has a new look to me now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once I reached 1,000 parks hunted the activity started to take on new meaning to me.\u00a0 Running a compromise station getting others to hear me can be a challenge.\u00a0 I noticed many of the same parks were being activated by the same station over and over again.\u00a0 I get it, an activation is an activation so go where it is easiest.\u00a0 But why get in a pileup to work the same station in the same park for the twentieth time?\u00a0 So now I view my POTA hunting as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I have a park in the POTA site&#8217;s log I will not get in a pileup to work it again.<\/li>\n<li>If the activator appears not to be getting calls, I will call no matter how many times he is in the log.\u00a0 My contact may be needed for the ten (probably not).<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some other POTA related items.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the time of this posting the POTA site&#8217;s log shows that I have 1,236 parks hunted.<\/li>\n<li>I would like to activate a park at some point.<\/li>\n<li>I watch <strong>too<\/strong> many Ham Radio YouTube videos.\u00a0 At times they add to the activity&#8217;s appeal, but at times I think they detract from it.\u00a0 (Just my opinion.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once I reached 1,000 parks hunted the activity started to take on new meaning to me.\u00a0 Running a compromise station getting others to hear me can be a challenge.\u00a0 I noticed many of the same parks were being activated by the same station over and over again.\u00a0 I get it, an activation is an activation\u2026 <a class='read-more' href='https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3861'>Continue Reading &lsquo;POTA has a new look to me now.&rsquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating","category-pota","category-qrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3877,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/3877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}