Without a doubt, the ARRL’s National Parks on the Air (NPOTA) program has been a huge success. Unfortunately, for those of us who live in Southeast Michigan, we don’t have many national parks close to us.
What we do have in Michigan are many wonderful state parks. So, a couple of months ago, I e-mailed our section manager, Larry, WR8B, and suggested that we needed to start a Michigan State Parks on the Air Program. He told me to be patient, that there was already someone working on this.
Yesterday, my friend, Thom, W8TAM, e-mailed me a link to the Michigan State Parks on the Air Facebook page. It’s a little sketchy on details, but it looks like the program will get started next year. I hope they post more details soon.
There are a number of state parks on the air programs already in progress:
There’s also a program called just Parks on the Air, that was started back in 2010. Are there any others that you know about?
There is WWFF (World Wide Flora and Fauna). The rules are kind of odd, you have to stay for two hours, you need 44 QSOs, but you can get those over multiple visits, and so on.
The US list of WWFF sites is here:
http://wwff-kff.com/
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This was actually changed! There are no time limits or restrictions, and you only need 10 QSOs for POTA/KFF Awards. 73 W3AAX
Fantastico mucha suerte HC4Z 73
As the Chairman for the Ohio State Parks On The Air contest (OSPOTA) – I invite all of you involved in the upcoming Michigan State Parks On The Air contest to visit our OSPOTA web site (www.ospota.org) and download all of our contest material – you just might find a few things that will help you with your contest! If you have any questions on how we have done things with the contest over the last nine years, feel free to contact me.
73,
Tom, KB8UUZ
OSPOTA Chairman
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