Am I the first one to think this?
When I'm activating, 20 - 30 people calling me, and one guy comes in at the end "park to park."
Okay, hold on, you guys, I have a park-to-park.
But then there's maybe four or five more.
And I have 20 or 30 op's sitting there.
I used to do it myself when I'm at a park and would call another activator, but I stopped.
Now, when I start, I try to break others' POTA pile-ups, just using my call sign, no "park to park."
If I have a decent antenna, I can get in there.
When I break the pile up, I usually say, "yeah, I'm at a park also, K-XXXX." But I think I'll stop doing that.
But even if I don't exchange my park, it still counts as a park-to-park, so long as both logs have the park info.
So why do this?
This struck me a little while ago, when I was a hunter for the weekend.
Almost every activator had the same scenario.
20 - 30 people calling them.
Then a (usually weak) signal at the end of the pile-up, "park to park."
Then four or five more.
And 20 - 30 people sit there for a half hour.
I realized, yeah hunters probably get annoyed with this.
So why not eliminate it?
David, K2WPM