How-to for a park, a summit, or a net — Polo on the phone, N3FJP in the truck, antennas, ADIF, CQ. Recap, ADIF Doctor, a pocket sheet, a Saturday hole finder, and Net Scribe sit next to it. Field-tested, not a brochure.
Written by KB3CMT. Independent of POTA, SOTA, WWFF, ARRL, and ARES. Program rules live on the official sites — we link them and tell you when an old PDF is stale.
Program rules, rig menus, hitch verticals, Polo vs AC Log, gridsquare tags, pileup scripts. Wrong ADIF fields fail an activation; this is the chapter that stops that. Suggest a correction at the bottom of any page — it is reviewed before it is public.
Home from the park. See what will fail the uploader, explode 2-fers, emit POTA / WWFF / SOTA / LoTW files with the right names. Then hand Full to Recap. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop an ADIF, plot hunters on a locator map, add a park photo if you have one, download a shareable card. Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Check-ins, confirm-before-save, ICS-205 / 213 / 214, plus preamble, sign-in sheet, and after-action. Club pack without a club server.
One page for the parking lot: park name, grid, sunrise, the freqs you need, hospital, bailout. Look up a POTA ref or type it all in. Print before you lose cell.
ADIF in, parks you still need within a tank of gas. Same-day pairs when two holes sit close. Award holes — not live spots, not another logbook.
Doctor first (the files). Recap second (the picture). Log utilities when you need CSV or analytics. See the Log & ADIF hub or the ADIF guide if a tag still does not make sense.
Find SES operations, see who is on frequency, claim certificates, and upload logs when the event ends.
Field quests and park-grid Battleship. Log in with your callsign to track progress and climb the leaderboard.
Route planner, two-fer finder, needed parks, callsign lookup — plus the Log & ADIF close-out tools and POTAPlus for the spots page.
Phone or laptop. Logs stay on your device. Print the 214 when the served agency wants paper.
Not affiliated with Parks on the Air, SOTA, WWFF, ARRL, or ARES. Tools from KB3CMT — an activator who also runs nets.
These are internet tools. We do not promote this site over amateur radio. Part 97 stays Part 97.
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