More PDFs In My Filesystem
One of the fun things about POTA is watching the stats trickle in. I’m not out there trying to hit specific numbers most of the time, but I do like to see those big donut graphs close in on themselves. But the one that did kind of grate on me was the Worked All States grid.
Let’s be clear, getting Hawaii from NE Ohio is going to be rough. It’s doable, but so many things have to go right. Not the least of which is getting an activator in Hawaii.
The POTA team does give an “Out” of sorts by including Washington D.C. as a state. I got that relatively early on as every POTA activator who goes there wants to grab an activation.
The most stubborn state in my experience is…Vermont. I don’t know what it is about that state, but they only seem to come out for contests. I was resigned to waiting for Ham Alerts and the like to finally show me someone in VT and grab that final state. Then the fun started.
A new Tech Lincensee on Mastodon said that he got over into Vermont all the time. I told him to upgrade to General ASAP so that he could go there and we could grab a contact. Ya know what? He did! My good buddy Joe KC1SRI went off and got his General and then marched over to the park (I don’t really know how he got there…I’ll assume he used a car or something rather than marching) and we had a very rough, but serviceable, QSO and that was that!
It might have taken him a little while to get around to logging it with POTA, but as with all good things, it got done! Now there’s another PDF I can point to and enjoy.
