Learning the basics of Parks On The Air
Getting Started with POTA
Parks on the Air® (POTA) started in early 2017 when the ARRL’s National Parks on the Air special event ended. A group of volunteers wanted to continue the fun beyond the one-year event, and thus, POTA was born.General information about the program is available at parksontheair.com, so we highly recommend checking out the information there. You may also want to join the POTA Slack Channel or the POTA Facebook group, where you can easily interact with the POTA community online. POTA also maintains accounts on Twitter and Mastodon if you prefer to interact on those social media platforms.Once you’re ready to start, just remember that the golden rules of POTA are to have fun and keep it simple. We want to give you as much flexibility as possible, to have fun your way.Getting started with POTA can happen via one of two paths — as an “activator” who heads out into the parks or as a “hunter” who is trying to contact someone in a park. The easiest way to participate in POTA is as a hunter, so we’ll start there.
Dmitry VA7DVO at his POTA station
Dmitry VA7DVO and his son Alex VA7PVC have become involved in a big way since becoming licensed through our SARC course. They have activated several sites and Dmitry will present a POTA classroom overview followed by an on-site demonstration at Serpentine Fen Wildlife Refuge. Participants will have an opportunity to use the station to make one or more contacts.
Sign-up for the workshop will be though Larry VE7LXB.
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Larry Bloom VE7LXB
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