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Comment on 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.

667@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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.

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vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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- 667@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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.
    
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    667@lemmy.radio ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
    
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