Parks on the Air News
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- Aprils activity weekend gave us a nice mid-month boost, which helped drive the monthly totals. We had over 2,000 operators out who did 11,281 Activations from 4,333 parks, in 34 different DX entities.
- The top activators for the month were the same two individuals as March – N2NWK who this month did 278 activations and W6ZD who activated a mind blowing 198 different parks.
- The top hunters for the month were K9ICP who hunted 966 parks, and AD2CD who made 1,598 QSOs, just edging out N3XLS.
- In POTA DX, we had changing of the guard in Region 1. The activators in Spain came out in full force and edged out England based on the number of activations. Canada and Japan continued to hold their top spots Regions 2 and 3 respectively.
- Our top DX Activators this month were HI8DL from the Dominican Republic who did 76 activations, and VA7DBJ from Canada who activated 62 parks.
- And last but not least, let’s check in on the progress of the Bailey-Sprott Challenge. In 2021 N5HA and W9AV each manged to hunt a park every day, so in 2022 we’re following along to see if anyone else can match their feat.
- At 120 Days into the year, we have 3 activators who have activated every day of the year, along with 3 others who may still be in the running, pending log uploads: N2NWK, KE8PZN, KD4MZM, K4NYM, KB3WAV, and WC1N. The pool of hunters is now down to 36. To all of the Bailey-Sprott participants, congrats on your success so far, and we look forward to seeing how you do now that we have past the 100 day mark.
From: K5QBF