Adam Smith, AA1N, writes on the PART of Westford mailing list:Hi PART’ers – I took some time to read through the POTA web site again. Under the rules we can either do multiple individual activations, or a club/group activation.
As a group, all activity from a single callsign from the same park in the same (UTC) day would count toward the activation (but it’s possible to log the operator for each QSO under a shared call – and ops get some credit). If we wanted to do this (for this or future ops) then we’d want to register a group call with POTA – not sure if WB1GOF is registered, or if there’s a protocol for approving use of the club call for events?
If acting as individuals:
* each individual calling CQ POTA will need to have a POTA.app account, and to submit their own log of contacts after the event.
* each individual in this case could have a successful activation (10 contacts), or not
* we can share radios and “pass the mic”, or run separate radios (technical & interference concerns notwithstanding)
References:
General POTA Rules:
https://docs.pota.app/docs/
See in particular rules #4 and #5 under Logging Requirements, and the “Clubs and Multiple Operators” section under “Guidelines, Interpretation, and Intent”.
The latter section refers to another doc, Guide for Clubs/Groups:
https://docs.pota.app/docs/activator_reference/activator_guide_clubs.html
https://docs.pota.app/docs/
Hope to see folks in a week, I’m planning to be there with an HF radio, probably to run primarily voice/SSB. The area they asked us to operate in has some good open space – finding decent shade may be more of an issue. From what Neice said, we should park at the lot off of Lowell Road (set GPS for Great Brook Ski Touring Center), rather than the lot off of North Road nearer the ice cream / dairy farm. See attached pic from Google Maps – the lot at the left and field toward the Park HQ marker. Carlisle center is south on Lowell Road from this view. I went by this weekend, it’s a large lot and the field to the south is fairly flat and very open. Bring your own antenna support, and maybe sun cover.
73,
Adam / AA1N
