PRESENTER OPINION: Does POTA’s Selection of U.S. Park Entities Shortchange Urban Hams?

PRESENTER OPINION: Does POTA’s Selection of U.S. Park Entities Shortchange Urban Hams?

On a regular Saturday-morning Zoom meeting of hams a few months ago, a participant in Los Angeles asked the group, “Why can’t I activate one of my local parks and have it count in POTA?” Some of those in attendance echoed the sentiment. Based on that question, I asked myself what does POTA as a program look like? I recently published a snapshot of POTA sites, activations, and activators on this blog. There were several findings that we did not know before I published these results.

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PRESENTER OPINION : This is why I keep producing study guides

PRESENTER OPINION : This is why I keep producing study guides

When I first started publishing my , there were really only three of us producing amateur radio license study guides: the ARRL, Gordon West, and me. Now, there are many more. If you do a search on Amazon for “Technician Class license study guide,” you’ll see that there are at least a dozen other study guides out there.

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