I have been hunting POTA activators in my spare time for the last few days. There seems to be a lot of interest in QRP operations on the POTA pages, so I thought I'd drop some stats here. I run a K2 to a attic dipole for these contacts, SSB are red, and CW are green. SSB is 10 watts, and CW is 5 watts. Admittedly this is not a really great setup for getting on the air but I make do.
In the last couple days I have made 24 contacts, mainly just watching the POTA spotting page at https://pota.us - this page is updated every 60 seconds, so when a new activator gets on the air, RBN can spot them, or other hunters can spot them. No super DX but I think this shows that QRP is a usable tool for hunting park activators. Tomorrow I will be connecting my K1 back up and putting the K2 back in my POTA activator Apache case. I'll miss out on the SSB contacts with the K1.
Since June 22 I am now over 100 unique hunted parks, all QRP and almost all CW.
73 es Best DX to you!
de KB9BVN
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