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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Can you handle yet another 'OTA?

Summits, Parks, Lighthouses, Islands - are all "On The Air".

The next place to take your radio currently being planned is Lakes/Waterways on the Air. Coming soon to a body of fresh water near you.

The Idea Man: Jack W8TEE

The Infrastructure Implementation Man: Jim KJ7JHE

No website exists. Yet.....

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9 comments:

  1. Steve SilvermanDecember 1, 2022 at 7:36 PM

    Sounds like a good idea. But how about COTA, Confluences on the Air. A confluence is the physical intersection of an integer latitude and integer longitude. See www.confuence.org to see just how big a thing this. You have to get within 100 meters of a confluence to establish your visit. There are 912 in the USA for starters. You submit your visit and it gets published on their website, if it meets the simple criteria. All worldwide confluences can be seen maps on the website. This could be an international quest to operate at many confuences and give special notice to confluence to confluence QSOs.
    Steve Silverman KB3SII ... .. ..

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    1. AnonymousDecember 2, 2022 at 5:48 AM

      COTA already exsist. Castles On The Air ( you can earn World Castle Awards). So you you can't pick that name since it will be confusing. 73, Bas

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    2. John AE5XDecember 2, 2022 at 7:00 AM

      Here's the link (typo above!):
      https://confluence.org/

      Steve, this seems far more interesting to me than the LOTA - I remember reading about this site years ago in (I think) Outside Magazine. If hams engaged in this, it would result in much more adventurous reading than yet another "Today I activated..." posting from those of us guilty of such mundane transgressions ;-) Repeatedly, in my case...

      I will be looking into this site more closely in the next few days. Thanks much for the reminder.

      73,
      John

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    3. KG6ZWDDecember 6, 2022 at 11:18 AM

      That link results in a 504 error. I googled "confluences on the air" and nothing.

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    4. John AE5XDecember 6, 2022 at 11:22 AM

      Their website is down at the moment but the address is correct - check later.

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  2. VE9KK December 2, 2022 at 6:45 AM

    Good morning John, sound like a great idea and the way I look at it any event will get more on the air and more interested in ham radio all the better.
    73,
    Mike
    VE9KK

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    1. John AE5XDecember 2, 2022 at 7:01 AM

      Hi Mike - at least it's another way to combine ham radio with another activity (boating, fishing, etc).

      73,
      John

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  3. Thomas (K4SWL)December 2, 2022 at 10:16 AM

    I'm up for any excuse to hop on the air!
    That said, it might make for a lot of extra submissions for some of my parks activations--a number are at lakes. :) I'm incredibly behind on submitting some of my logs to WWFF as well.
    This could very well open the door to an OTA for those living further away from parks and summits.
    And those confluences mentioned in a previous comment? Holy cow! A huge community around this...I had no idea.
    Cheers,
    Thomas
    K4SWL

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    1. John AE5XDecember 2, 2022 at 3:38 PM

      I'm well behind submitting to WWFF as well, Thomas. I think of POTA and WWFF as redundant programs - one with a easily-navigable website; the other with a website in serious need of an update. Further complicating things is that some park numbers in both programs match; in others, they do not and a cross-reference is needed.

      Is there a compelling reason to upload to both programs when each has the same modus operandi?

      73,
      John

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