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Do you pursue POTA and/or SOTA awards?
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What about I'm not pursuing either POTA or SOTA awards?
73,
... Joe, W4TV
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Do you pursue POTA and/or SOTA awards?
1. I'm pursuing POTA awards but not SOTA awards
2. I'm pursuing SOTA awards but not POTA awards
3. I'm pursuing both POTA and SOTA awards
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I am with Joe on this one. But I never thought I would be chasing grids .....
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On 5/18/2025 9:35 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
What about I'm not pursuing either POTA or SOTA awards?
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?? ... Joe, W4TV
On 2025-05-18 3:55 AM, Dave AA6YQ wrote:
A new poll has been created:
Do you pursue POTA and/or SOTA awards?
1. I'm pursuing POTA awards but not SOTA awards
2. I'm pursuing SOTA awards but not POTA awards
3. I'm pursuing both POTA and SOTA awards
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When I reach a thousand activator SOTA points for Mountain Goat, I may then switch my focus to both SOTA and POTA. Only 331 points to go.
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Same here,
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Not interested in either.
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On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 06:35 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
What about I'm not pursuing either POTA or SOTA awards?
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 2025-05-18 3:55 AM, Dave AA6YQ wrote:
A new poll has been created:
Do you pursue POTA and/or SOTA awards?
1. I'm pursuing POTA awards but not SOTA awards
2. I'm pursuing SOTA awards but not POTA awards
3. I'm pursuing both POTA and SOTA awards
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+ AA6YQ comments below
What about I'm not pursuing either POTA or SOTA awards?
+ Don't respond to the poll.
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Dave, AA6YQ
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I dont understand why you would even think about extending support
for pota
The pota folks contacts are all tracked on the pota data system
activators have to submit logs, those chasing them dont have to do
anything...
73
Bob, KA9JAC
PS way to dang many of them upload garbage to lotw...
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1. I'm pursuing POTA awards but not SOTA awards
2. I'm pursuing SOTA awards but not POTA awards
3. I'm pursuing both POTA and SOTA awards
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I have to agree with Bob. The thing that people might want to track for POTA is the park from which they operated?from. You can do that currently with "my QTH's". If people did it correctly, their uploads to LotW would show the correct location. I use "my QTH's" to track my SOTA activations.
The other thing you might want as a chaser of POTA or SOTA is a beam heading of the park or summit. I currently do this for chasing SOTA by opening the ?(you have to be?logged?in to get the correct heading) and then click on the summit to get the heading. I then enter the heading manually?into DXView. I don't know how to find?the heading for a park. Is there a way to find a Maidenhead grid or beam heading for a park easily? The POTA app does not provide that info.
The current way SpotCollector displays SOTA info is great, you click on the spot and the summit reference?is entered into the DXK capture window and logged. I think DXLabs is the easiest?way to chase SOTA.
I dont understand why you would even think about extending support
for pota
The pota folks contacts are all tracked on the pota data system
activators have to submit logs, those chasing them dont have to do
anything...
73
Bob, KA9JAC
PS way to dang many of them upload garbage to lotw...
On 5/18/2025 2:55 AM, Dave AA6YQ wrote:
A new poll has been created:
Do you pursue POTA and/or SOTA awards?
1. I'm pursuing POTA awards but not SOTA awards
2. I'm pursuing SOTA awards but not POTA awards
3. I'm pursuing both POTA and SOTA awards
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+ AA6YQ comments below
I dont understand why you would even think about extending support for pota
The pota folks contacts are all tracked on the pota data system
activators have to submit logs, those chasing them dont have to do anything...
+ There are awards for working stations in parks: + DXLab could identify active stations in unworked parks. + Similarly, there are awards for working SOTA activations. ? ? ? 73, ? ? ? ? ? ?Dave, AA6YQ
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+ AA6YQ comments below
The current way SpotCollector displays SOTA info is great, you click on the spot and the summit reference?is entered into the DXK capture window and logged. I think DXLabs is the easiest?way to chase SOTA.
+ A similar capability is provided for POTA; see ? ? 73,
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Dave
Yes, I use it to see POTA stations also. However, if I double click on a POTA/SOTA spot the beam heading is for the operators home QTH. It would be great to have a way to show the correct beam heading to the park or summit in DXView.
My question is, what are you proposing for DXLabs as far as POTA/SOTA?
Thanks
73
Kent
N6WT
+ AA6YQ comments below
The current way SpotCollector displays SOTA info is great, you click on the spot and the summit reference?is entered into the DXK capture window and logged. I think DXLabs is the easiest?way to chase SOTA.
+ A similar capability is provided for POTA; see ? ? 73,
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+ AA6YQ comments below
Yes, I use it to see POTA stations also. However, if I double click on a POTA/SOTA spot the beam heading is for the operators home QTH. It would be great to have a way to show the correct beam heading to the park or summit in DXView.
+ If someone can point me at a file or online resource that contains grid locations or latitudes and longitudes for POTA parks, I'll be happy to enable DXLab to exploit it.
My question is, what are you proposing for DXLabs as far as POTA/SOTA?
+ I haven't proposed anything; I am assessing interest levels.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
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Unworked parks is not the only thing sought after. There are also awards for working parks and activators multiple times. Each award has multiple tiers. That's not even considering the various activator awards. On Sun, 18 May 2025 18:00:48 -0700 "Dave AA6YQ via groups.io" <aa6yq@...> wrote: + There are awards for working stations in parks:
+ DXLab could identify active stations in unworked parks. -- 73 -Jim NU0C
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+ AA6YQ comments below
Unworked parks is not the only thing sought after. There are also awards for working parks and activators multiple times. Each award has multiple tiers. That's not even considering the various activator awards.
+ There are fewer activators than chasers.
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I am fairly sure there is a file for SOTA summits. I don't know about POTA.?
I have heard that portable operations are the fastest growing part of ham radio.
Thanks
73
Kent
N6WT
+ AA6YQ comments below
Yes, I use it to see POTA stations also. However, if I double click on a POTA/SOTA spot the beam heading is for the operators home QTH. It would be great to have a way to show the correct beam heading to the park or summit in DXView.
+ If someone can point me at a file or online resource that contains grid locations or latitudes and longitudes for POTA parks, I'll be happy to enable DXLab to exploit it.
My question is, what are you proposing for DXLabs as far as POTA/SOTA?
+ I haven't proposed anything; I am assessing interest levels.
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+ AA6YQ comments below
I am fairly sure there is a file for SOTA summits. I don't know about POTA.?
+ This file contains the names and locations of 74K Parks around the world:
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? ? ? ? ? ?Dave, AA6YQ
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Dave?
Here is the file for all the SOTA Summits.
+ AA6YQ comments below
I am fairly sure there is a file for SOTA summits. I don't know about POTA.?
+ This file contains the names and locations of 74K Parks around the world:
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? ? ? ? ? ?Dave, AA6YQ
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POTA and SOTA seem to be polarizing to some parts of the ham community. Live and let live. If Dave is gracious enough to put fields in Spotcollector to support these public-facing parts of the hobby, good on him. I will strain my few remaining brain cells to make use of the new tools. (Mainly PoTA. I'm too out of shape for summits, even in Va.)
Tom ai4th
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+ AA6YQ comments below
Here is the file for all the SOTA Summits.
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+ Thanks, Kent! Nearly 178K summits are defined in that file.
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+ AA6YQ comments below
POTA and SOTA seem to be polarizing to some parts of the ham community. Live and let live. If Dave is gracious enough to put fields in Spotcollector to support these public-facing parts of the hobby, good on him. I will strain my few remaining brain cells to make use of the new tools. (Mainly PoTA. I'm too out of shape for summits, even in Va.)
+ POTA, SOTA, and WWFF fields were added to SpotCollector in version 8.7.2 back in August 2020. SpotCollector inspects the notes fields of incoming spots, recognizes POTA, SOTA, and WWFF tabs, and inserts them into Spot Database Entries.
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