Field day and POTA at once

POTA, SOTA, and Other Activities
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Hi guys. This will be my first field day and at the same time I will be at the park camping where I usually do POTA activations.

How to do both at once?

Should I call CQ POTA or CQ FD and how to log both at the same time?
Standard signal exchange and then class and location? How to do this correctly?

Any input would be appreciated

I will be operating as a 1 station on battery power (1B IL) I think this should be my designator.

Thank you

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Hi Peter
You are in following situation:

  • POTA Hunter are consulting the POTA spots. So if you do a POTA self-spot, the hunters know your call sign, your frequency and your park number. So they will find you, even when you are calling CQ FD"

  • FD participants will probably not contact a station calling “CQ POTA”. Why? Because they are afraid, that a “normal” POTA station does not also know the correct FD exchange (e.g. “1B NT”).

So I assume it is best to call CQ Fieldday and also self-spotting on POTA app.

But why not integrate a short POTA information in your CQ FD call:

“CQ field day CQ field day from KD9ZNA doing POTA” :+1:

(Just name “FD” more often than “POTA”, so the other FD stations understand, that you really are a FD station.)

This is easy. Use the original field day logbook. And if you have a Park-to-park use the field “Notes”. After the field day you can move the park-to-park information in the correct P2P field.

73 Pepe

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I like this. A lot of parks are activated during Field Day. I would focus on the FD log as the primary and come back to the POTA log. Everyone gets a 59 for Field Day (grin).

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