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Public List of programs that manage activations, the act of setting up an amateur radio station for the purpose of making contact with other amateurs. (github.com)

submitted 1 month ago by vk6flab@lemmy.radio to c/amateur_radio@lemmy.radio

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Added several more "On The Air" activations:

Historical Sites On The Air
Inland Waterways On The Air
Mills On The Air

If you know of others not in this list, please let us know.

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[–] 667@lemmy.radio 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’d love to see a “ROTA”: Relays On The Air.

One of the beautiful adjacent benefits amateur radio has greatly benefitted from in POTA/SOTA is that it gets us out of the hamshack to do real-world field exercises, resulting in the miniaturization of everything from Morse keys to antenna setups, but something important we don’t really practice enough are radio relays.

We hold our hobby out as an additional means of communication for EMCOMM, something like ROTA might also supercharge our corps.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Be the change you want to see!

Make a program
Write down the process
Publish it
Submit in a patch
Job done!

😇

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Fair point and I hate that you’re right

I’d love to have some hamshack beers with folks and work out some of the mechanics. POTA and SOTA work so well because it mostly relies on the activators. I’d need some ideas on how to make a similar mechanic for ROTA.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Timezone differences permitting, you can always join F-troop at midnight UTC on Saturday (about one and a half hours from now) and start the discussion. The net runs for an hour every week.

See ftroop.groups.io for details.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Brilliant timing tbh because I am east coast US. I’d have to join EchoLink owing to a rediculous noise floor where I’m at and, well, I can’t touch VK land from Maryland in the US with my 100W.

I’m not optimistic about the next linkup, but I will try. At worst I’ll have to have a go at simply posting.