Parks on the Air - now in England

You need to know the difference between a contest and an award. This one is a shameless rip off of the established WWFF scheme anyway.

 

IMO the WWFF was a PITA, I like the POTA setup for award tracking, and pretty much everything else. While I agree it was a ripoff, the ARRL started the US side, then POTA continued, and do it better than WWFF.

 

That's the fleg of the union not england.

 

parks on the air is wonern fully time at good luck vy73 DJOAJ ekrem

 

I have not seen any post referring to it as the flag of England
Missed it again

 

Been hunting for a year and a half now and activating for 7 months. The program got me off my butt and outside. Not only do I activate I also explore these parks. Seen things I never would have saw sitting on the couch. As for the ragchew part, there are regulars that i ragchew with when I activate and have had some eyeball QSOs with other activators. 73

 

I haven't been very active with Parks on the air up until just a couple of months ago. So far now, I've activated four parks, and getting ready to head out for number five tomorrow! I've had a couple of P2P contacts, and to me that's a real thrill. I never know how far away that next contact is going to be. Not only that, but with the way the bands have been lately, my reception at home is lousy. I get out to these parks and it's like the world just opened up! It's amazing how little noise is out there unless you truly take a chance and try it out yourself! 73,
KZ7ZUL

 

The original main title had something like "Parks on air now in England" with a picture of a Union Jack flag not the flag of St. George.

 

Eyes up Colin, it’s in the thread title.

 

That is a definition of CB ... not ham radio.

73,
Walt (G3NYY)

 

So true! Ham radio is a diverse hobby with something for everyone which is why it has survived all these years. I have heard the same arguments about FT 8 and working DX. 73's

 

Fact is, I do try to avoid them. Just like the endless nonsensical contests we have over here in Europe practically every weekend. And I'm not alone in complaining. It's a hot topic in EU. And if YOU don't like hearing rag-chewing, then you can tune away too. But where? The contesters and "special (non)events stations" occupy entire bands. Come over here and do some listening, then you might be better placed to understand my comments. What we have today is "industrialized" hamming - hamming on the conveyer belt. It's a Zeitgeist. It's all about competition and scoring points and "getting ahead". But ahead of whom and what? It's just a carry-over from our sick society. It's a ham radio neurosis. I've been a ham for 60 years and have never seen the hobby degenerate to the level it is now. A big part of the problem was opening the flood gates to CB refugees - at least here in EU. They don't want to learn hamming; they just continue their CB antics on the ham bands. The RSGB in Britain defends this by saying "the hobby needs new blood". Yes, it does. But how about giving the newcomers a blood test first. Many have tried to educate them. But they are arrogant and refuse to be taught. People just don't want to talk to one another anymore. No one is interested in other people anymore - just "number one". Another sign of the times. This is not the ham radio hobby I got into.
73,
Bob HB9ASQ (ex WA2UPQ)

 

our time, our electricity ... get over it laddy

 

You obviously haven't been in the business very long.