What Happened to POTA in France?

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• LB

  @LB0FI · 1 month ago (edited) · pinned

  Update: The POTA Board of Directors has released a statement about the situation. You can find it here: <a href="https://q5hamradio.substack.com/p/parks-on-the-air-board-statement">https://q5hamradio.substack.com/p/parks-on-the-air-board-statement</a>. We well continue following up on this, but please understand that this will take some time.<br><br>Also: Personal attacks will be deleted, this is not acceptable. Period.

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• ER

  @ericbaber2843 · 1 month ago (edited)

  Morten &quot;we&apos;re going to try to address this somewhat delicately.&quot;<br>Bob &quot;you are, I&apos;m not&quot; <br>Me at lunch at work 😂

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• ST

  @Steve-VE1SK · 1 month ago

  this is a shame, I hope this gets worked out quickly

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• DO

  @dougdaniels · 1 month ago

  US Ham here, and first I&apos;ve heard of it, thank you. I&apos;m very surprised at this, and I&apos;m very confused and concerned. I hope it resolves positively for everyone.

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• F4

  @f4wfi · 1 month ago

  Great video. It&apos;s good to have the support and feedback from another European country. Hopefully, the issues at hand will be discussed constructively ASAP to clear the situation and ensure a bright future for the POTA program. Fingers crossed.

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• DD

  @DD5LP · 1 month ago

  POTA is repeating what has happened in the past in SOTA with German summits being removed en mass by the central body (because they didn&apos;t meet the rules) against the wishes of the local management. It is very difficult to run a multi national scheme with central and local level of management. In short it&apos;s a nightmare. I have seen lots of difference between how POTA is run in the US and in several other countries. These central groups do not answer to anyone as it is not a &quot;club&quot; with an elected board, which means it is very difficult to have a &quot;control structure&quot;. Let me be clear here, the central group do a LOT of good work in all these schemes. The problem is how to get a better structure to SUPPORT the central team. 73 Ed

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• DU

  @DudeTested · 1 month ago

  I love the dual camera setup for this! &nbsp;Great discussion!

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• LA

  @labcat73 · 1 month ago

  I guess the problem is that the square hole just suddenly got a lot smaller than the round pegs over night... After years of ignoring the issue that the rules have to be adapted to work in an international program, this comes as a nasty surprise.<br><br>Epic communication failure from the board. The ball is firmly in their ground now and I hope they switch on their brains before deciding what to do next...

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• SM

  @sm6yec · 1 month ago

  Hi! In my POTA log, all the French parks I hunted are still active.

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• RA

  @Rag3Again · 2 weeks ago

  Very good video.<br>I agree.

• G5

  @G5LSI · 1 month ago (edited)

  I think Bob&apos;s analysis left out an incredibly important layer, which gave POTA a lot of its advantage over WWFF when it grew internationally: its IT infrastructure. I said it before and I&apos;m saying it again: POTA would not have gained so much traction if their app/website (and, more importantly, its backend) wasn&apos;t so much better than everybody else&apos;s. Any replacement to POTA, be it WWFF or something new, would have to provide something as good or even better to manage park databases, leaderboards, awards, etc. at a global scale.

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• DD

  @DD5LP · 1 month ago

  Not uploading activation logs means all those hunters that you worked will not advance towards the awards they are trying for. So the statement &apos;it doesn&apos;t hurt anyone &apos; isn&apos;t correct. &nbsp;73 Ed

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