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 - SondeHub-Amateur <https://amateur.sondehub.org/>
 
+## POTA
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+- Parks on the Air <https://pota.app/>
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 ## Satellites
 
 - Heavens Above (satellite tracking) <https://www.heavens-above.com/main.aspx>

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+title: My First Amateur Radio Parks On The Air (POTA) Activation
+date: 2024-04-15
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+I activated my first park on March 31 2024, Pacific Rim National Park (CA-0066) from Longbeach, and what a rush it was 🎉 I was nervous for this first activation but I pushed myself out of my comfort zone and it paid off. I learned a lot with this event and I plan to get out and activate more frequently.
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+Setup for my activation was fairly straight forward: I brought camping chairs for both my wife and I, a small table to operate from and for the radio to sit on, and sunglasses because the sun was beating down on us on the beach.
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+Standard operating procedure when activating a park is a s follows:
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+> CQ POTA, CQ Parks on the Air, this is [callsign in phonetics] in [park reference] calling Parks on the Air
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+## Resources
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+- Getting started with Parks on the Air <https://docs.pota.app/#getting-started-with-pota>