New Parks on the Air Program Updates

I am interested in POTA and will likely be activating a few parks this summer, However I have a question. What if there is a park near me that is not on the list? One of them is a National Battleground Historic Site. It is locally managed, but under the auspices of the National Park Service. Another is a State Park, Wildlife Management Area, on a local lake.

 

I would get in touch with your state mapping rep and ask them because they will have the local knowledge I don't and they can explain the rules better than I can: https://docs.pota.app/docs/volunteers/countries/united-states-of-america.html

Why might a site that looks eligible not be on the list already? There are still some eligible US parks which have never been added because it's never been the case that every eligible location has been identified an added at a given point in time. There are certainly some locations which are already covered by another larger POTA reference owned by the same agency, and the policy is usually not to create subdivision units within a larger area where that occurs. There are a small number of parks which were on the list but have been removed because of sensitivity/misbehaviour issues or because they have been sold into private ownership or transferred to local government control. Most mapping reps are able to deal with these queries quite quickly.

Good luck and I look forward to hunting you for a P2P some time!

 

Now, now Jeff - you have to remember it is a non-contest contest.

People are happy use it, the POTA program provides many solid, if somewhat short contacts and many, many Ops run CW!!!

Happy to see it around, the non-contest contest parts notwithstanding.

 

TNX & 73 DE K4DFH