Florida State POTA

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  • 2026 Event Date Set

    The 2026 Florida State POTA contest will be held on the weekend of April 18 and 19, 2026. Revised rules are currently being developed and should be published before the end of 2025.

  • New Management Update 1

    On 7/28/25, the management committee for this event had its first organizing meeting via a Google Meet video. The committee consists of the following volunteer members from the Tamiami ARC: Paul KN4BAR, Jim N7JIM, Jon W4OMX, Ken NS1C, Mark KQ4EKK, Steve NS4P, Frank W2XYZ, Jack W1JJR

    A “rules sub-group” was formed to review and recommend new rules for 2026. A draft of the new rules will be reviewed by the full committee on 8/21/25.

    We did all agree on the following guidelines for taking this event forward to 2026 and beyond:

    1. not to schedule in conjunction with the FLQSO Party
    2. to hold the 2026 event on April 18 and 19, 2026
    3. to accept only .adi format log files
    4. to develop an aggressive marketing and promotion campaign for the 2026 event starting in January 2026
    5. to eliminate the high power (>100 W) category
    6. to exclusively use ONLY the POTA US-xxxx park identifier
    7. to review and update the events “official” FL State Parks List
    8. to add the solicitation and support of youth (<18 yr old) participation as a goal of the event
    9. to consider a Youth operator category or a score bonus for including youth operators in your activation or hunting operation.
    10. to consider, perhaps, extending the event time frame to include portions of Friday and/or Monday in the operating time

    The event date for 2026 is carved in stone as is not operating in conjunction with the FL QSO Party. Everything else is still under consideration and review leading up to the adoption of final 2026 rules later this year. Please respond here with any comments or suggestions you may have for this event, or you can email to [email protected] with your comments.

    Our committee will meet again in closed session on 8/21/25 and an update to this post will be made shortly thereafter.

    —

    73
    Paul KN4BAR

  • 2026 Event

    In 2026 Easter is on the first Sunday of April. We are currently evaluating the best alternate date to hold this year’s FLSPOTA event. The Georga State POTA organization has already announced that they will hold their event on the 3rd weekend in April. We don’t know about the Alabama event. Stayed tuned for updates!

  • New Management

    The management of the Florida State Parks on the Air (FLSPOTA) was assumed by the Tamiami Amateur Radio Club in July 2025. A club committee of 8 club members is now actively managing this event. First orders of business will be:

    • Obtain logs from the 2023, 2024 and 2025 event and publish the results.
    • Review and perhaps modify the event rules for the 2026 event.
    • Determine dates for the 2026 event. Easter is on the first Sunday of the month.

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  • Results 2022

    Single Op – Low Power – In Park:

    CALL SIGNSCORE
    KP4RK1396
    W1SRR418
    WO40256
    KA4EHL123
    K4PL65
    KO4UTH41
    K4SK4


    Multi Op – Low Power – In Park:

    CALLSCORE
    W4AC352
    W4E245


    Multi Op – QRP – In Park:

    CALL SIGNSCORE
    N3RN192


    Single Op – Low Power – Not in Florida:

    CALL SIGNSCORE
    W9AV52
    W9TCV6
    AB1ZQ1
    KF0AIT1


    Single Op – High Power – Not in Florida:

    CALL SIGNSCORE
    NO2C69

  • Results 2021

    Single Op – Low Power – In Park:
    KB2EZN 185
    W8RD 210

    Multi Op – Low Power – In Park:
    W4PRP 37
    N3RN 110
    W4E 438

    Single Op – Low Power – Not in Florida:
    N2TA 65
    N1ADX 25

  • Results 2020

    COVID-19….ALL STATE PARKS CLOSED. NO EVENT THIS YEAR

  • Results 2019

    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

  • Results 2018

    In Park Stations


    Single Operator


    Low Power
    SSB
    KD2JA
    W4F
    CW
    N6MRS
    Mixed
    KA2LHO
    QRP
    Mixed
    N4EMA
    K3TW
    CW
    W8RDG
    Multi/Single
    Low Power
    Mixed
    N4KGL
    Multi/Multi
    Low Power
    SSB
    N1COR
    Mixed
    N4AUG
    Out of State Stations
    Single Operator
    High Power
    SSB
    K2YRD
    Low Power
    SSB
    KB8TRH