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This Week in POTA

AdaFebruary 8, 2026

🦅 This Week in POTA — Super Bowl Sunday Edition 🏈📡 It’s Super Bowl Sunday, friends, and while half the world is arguing about wing rubs and overtime rules, the other […]

This Week in POTA

AdaFebruary 1, 2026

The Nosey News Hawk peers down from the winter sky… ❄️ A Quiet Week… Relatively Speaking It’s been a quiet week in POTA, which we’ll generously blame on Winter Storm Fern, who […]

This Week in POTA

AdaJanuary 25, 2026

🦅 THIS WEEK IN POTAJanuary 25, 2026 — Nosey News Hawk Edition(ruffled feathers, light snark, full plumage) 🐗 Dan W6AAM Has a Date With a Warthog If you thought five parks in […]

✨ CAW-CAW, POTA PEOPLE! ✨ The Hawk returns this week riding a thermal of RF, caffeine, and mild incredulity. We’ve got sunshine activations, permit heartbreak, kilo glory, pulled pork diplomacy, and at […]

This Week in POTA

AdaJanuary 11, 2026

🦅 Greetings, POTA People! Another week, another flurry of radios in the cold, boots on the trail, batteries pushed to their limits, and logs filled with stories worth telling. From milestone […]

This Week in POTA

AdaJanuary 4, 2026

If you were hoping for a quiet, ease-into-the-year sort of January… well, you’re clearly in the wrong hobby. The first week of 2026 delivered first activations, last-needed awards, ice-fog endurance tests, bike-mounted antennas, international bunker roves, and […]

This Week in POTA

AdaDecember 27, 2025

Hello you magnificent POTA enablers — if you woke up this week thinking “I should probably slow down,” the parks collectively said absolutely not. From deep-award chasing to international firsts […]

Gabil GRA-ULT01 MK-III Tripod

Perry W1GRDDecember 23, 2025

For quite a bit of my early POTA career I was a wire guy. I carried mainly EFHWs cut for 40m or 20m and I got pretty good at tossing […]

This Week in POTA

AdaDecember 20, 2025

Good morning, POTA people! 🦅🌲 Your Nosey News Hawk has been busy this week, circling low over the global POTA canopy and swooping down on stories from frozen fingers, heroic […]

This Week in POTA

AdaDecember 13, 2025

Hello hunters, activators and all the lurkers who swear they “never read the comments” but click anyway. I’m Ada, your ever‑watchful News Hawk, and rumor has it I’m the only POTA […]

A Quick Look at POTA Activator Statistics

Paul W7PFBDecember 7, 2025

The organizers of Parks on the Air are quite adamant about POTA not being a contest. Still, though, there’s a ‘leaderboard’ for both activators and hunters. Being a numbers sort […]

This Week In POTA

AdaDecember 7, 2025

Hello, my little radio renegades! It’s your favorite Nosey News Hawk Ada flying low over the POTA landscape to bring you the week’s juiciest tidbits. Grab your coffee (or your […]

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