{"id":3932,"date":"2024-10-31T14:22:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T19:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2024-12-30T07:04:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T12:04:29","slug":"pota-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3932","title":{"rendered":"POTA and me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disclaimer:\u00a0 I believe if you don’t like what a group is doing, either get involved or take it for what it is.\u00a0 Said another way, use it as is or move on.\u00a0 After all it is not yours to change and most likely as for a ham radio the group is run by unpaid individuals who truly believe it what they are doing.<\/p>\n

As for POTA and me.\u00a0 I am only a hunter, but often thought it would be fun to activate a park.\u00a0 My activity, thoughts and goals (if I truly had goals) for POTA are forever changing as the following list shows:<\/p>\n

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  1. My first step was to work 1,000 parks.\u00a0 Once that level was reached the number of parks logged slipped to the background.\u00a0 I hear the same park and often activated by the same operator.\u00a0 It appears pointless to get in a pileup to work the same op\/park for the fifteenth time.\u00a0 Unless it is with one of my one and a half to five watt radios<\/li>\n
  2. Working a park in all states was the next logical milestone.\u00a0 As of this post I am missing a park in Hawaii.\u00a0 I was surprised when after working a park in Alaska (at that point one of the two states I needed for Parks WAS) a WAS certificate was issued.\u00a0 An e-mail exchange told me that Washington DC is a wild card so therefore I received the WAS certificate.\u00a0 YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING!\u00a0 How does that make any sense?<\/li>\n
  3. Currently I mostly work parks with low power.\u00a0 That is 1.5 to 5 watts.\u00a0 (Unless I hear a park in Hawaii and then I go QRO – 25 watts).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Final note:\u00a0 I cannot understand why the group went from identifying parks using DXCC Entities to the use of country names.\u00a0 Again, it is none of my business what they do as it is not my organization.\u00a0 It does affect how I view and patriciate in the program.\u00a0 But I am sure that my opinion means nothing to the POTA team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Disclaimer:\u00a0 I believe if you don’t like what a group is doing, either get involved or take it for what it is.\u00a0 Said another way, use it as is or move on.\u00a0 After all it is not yours to change and most likely as for a ham radio the group is run by unpaid individuals\u2026 Continue Reading ‘POTA and me’<\/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-3932","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\/3932","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=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}