WB4SON

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POTA Gold Activator

Posted: 10 Mar 2021 08:35 AM PST
https://wb4son.com/wpblog/?p=4305


After completing 30 unique park activations yesterday, my Gold Activator
certificate arrived today:



I continue to gather metrics on activations.Â* I noted in doing three
activations yesterday that my old Toughbook CF-30 laptop had used 30% of
its battery capacity, indicating I could have done 6 to 8 parks on a single
charge.Â* In addition all three activations took 5.7 AH from my LiFePO4
battery.Â* The QSO rate was close to one a minute in all three parks, and I
was on the air for about 30 minutes at each park.Â* While doing three parks
in a row was fun, Im fairly certain that doing four would have lowered the
fun factor significantly.Â* In the future Ill try to do 2 or 3 activations
in a day.

The POTA group keeps track of Activation and Hunting activities with a
Leaderboard.Â* You can look at it two ways, either by year, or overall.Â* I
noted that I am in the top 10% of activators both overall and for 2021.Â*
That just says it is fairly easy to make a significant impact even though
there are thousands of people participating (9,586 as of today, making 2.3
million contacts)