Is there a POTA contest of some sort today?

[timbo]

Band edge to band edge on almost all the bands are POTA stations today. Some bands, between the WAE contest and the POTA stations, it's wall to wall. I called CQ several times, even after asking if frequency was in use, and someone comes on saying frequency is in use after the CQ call. Whatever...

I think I'll go outside and hang myself some antennas...LOL

 

[Matt80]

Looks like a busy contest weekend:

WA7BNM Contest Calendar: 12-Month Calendar

 

[ToddDubya]

The bands have been rubbish lately so it could be some pent up frustration driving people out. A few days in a row I settled down at the radio and there'd be a handful at best of stations on 40 and 20. Everything else was completely dead.

 

[timbo]

The bands have been rubbish lately so it could be some pent up frustration driving people out. A few days in a row I settled down at the radio and there'd be a handful at best of stations on 40 and 20. Everything else was completely dead.

Well, I did a little bit of research and it seems to be a contest...I found a website from Ohio that has a date of 9/9 of a POTA contest and it looks like other states have followed suit. The problem is they are on every HF band, even the WARC bands. I was under the impression that contests were verboten on those bands.

I dunno. I really do miss the contact/ragchews instead of the "you're 5/9 wham bam, thank you ma'am" contacts but I guess that's the way ham radio has transmogrified over the past few years.

I guess I'm turning into a ham radio curmudgeon.

 

[ToddDubya]

Huh, I do a lot of POTA and I never heard of it. I think the non-WARC contests are a gentleman's agreement. Plus who knows how many people knew it was a contest.

VHF+ contest was today too, but that didn't likely impact POTA. I got a few, all in my own grid square. I was just handing out points. I hope I don't have to submit a log.

 

[timbo]

Huh, I do a lot of POTA and I never heard of it. I think the non-WARC contests are a gentleman's agreement. Plus who knows how many people knew it was a contest.

VHF+ contest was today too, but that didn't likely impact POTA. I got a few, all in my own grid square. I was just handing out points. I hope I don't have to submit a log.

I used to love 6m AM....there were a half dozen or so of us that lived in Central NH that would ragchew on a Saturday night until the wee hours of Sunday morning just talking about just about anything. One of the guys was a minister who had to speak on Sunday morning....whenever we got started, he would usually say he was going to regret the roundtable that night. I would sometimes drink a whole 12 cup pot of coffee during those...of course I was a whole lot younger back then .

 

[ToddDubya]

That I could see. Whenever I get into a ragchew it usually feels forced and I'm looking for a way out. My brain also has a hard time with the half duplex nature. I need the "mm hmm" type cues. I did have a great time once talking squirrels with a couple guys.