FLSPOTA 2024 will take place April 6-7, 2024 throughout Florida’s beautiful state parks. 

I have updated the rules, with the bonuses being simplified. The only one now is the point bonus for each POTA station you can contact during your operation to support the event goals of encouraging folks to A) get out and operate in the parks and B) try make as many contacts as possible with stations in other Florida state parks, as well as POTA entities, stations in other states’ parks (GA, AL etc.)…basically, let’s make this a weekend to celebrate parks!

Check out flspota.org/rules for more info.

and…

Please send your activation plans to activations@flspota.org so we can update the activation list!

Single Op – Low Power – In Park:

Multi Op – Low Power – In Park:

Multi Op – QRP – In Park:

Single Op – Low Power – Not in Florida:

Single Op – High Power – Not in Florida:

Just a reminder in case anyone missed our announcement last week: Unfortunately, Florida DEP has closed all State Parks effective March 23. It is not known when they will reopen.

As a result, Florida State Parks on the Air 2020 has been postponed until later in the year. The new weekend is TBD, but will be announced on the FLSPOTA Facebook page and https://groups.io/g/flspota

The scores for this year’s contest are below. We received 25 logs, up from 14 last year. The majority of operations were single operator, single transmitter, low power. Congratulations to our category winners and thank you to all participants!

Station Located Within Florida State Park

• Single Operator, Single Transmitter
  • Low Power
    1. KD2JA
    2. KK1TLS
    3. N4BLH
    4. K4WK
    5. W4WWB
    6. KW4G
    7. KA2LHO
    8. N4NSS
    9. KK4VNZ
    10. N4DXI
    11. W4F
    12. K4QR
  • High Power
    1. NN2T
• Multi Operator, Single Transmitter
  • Low Power
    1. W4AFC
    2. K4LKL (not scored)
• Multi Operator, Multi Transmitter
  • Low Power
    1. W4E
    2. K4TN
    3. N4AUG
    4. K4PSL

Station Located within Florida, Not in State Park

• No Logs Received

Station Located Outside of Florida

• Single Operator, Single Transmitter
  • Low Power
    1. WB8CPG
    2. K0FFY
  • High Power
    1. W1XX
    2. N3KN
    3. K2RYD
    4. NO2C

Score Breakdown (click on image to expand)