Thanks to all the chasers, I appreciate each and everyone of you!
https://youtu.be/IMq6iM8Q0UA?si=eQmDvwEfRtVOflJr
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The SOTA-POTA dual stuff can be good fun. In recent years I did a campout on Shining Tor SOTA G/SP-004 - POTA GB-0048. I self-spotted on the POTA app as well as SOTAwatch, and ended up with a monster CW pile-up to North America running through the night!
Yesterday I nipped Gun G/SP-013 - which is also within POTA GB-0048 (Peak District National Park). Again I self-spotted on both schemes. The highlight was getting a call “Park to park” on 10m SSB - from a DX station in Barbados (8P)! Plenty of Brazil (PY), Argentina (LU), Chile (CE) and Uruguay (CX) worked on 10 too.
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I just sent you a DM about this and now i have just seen this haha! Gun is also one of the new GB POTAs - GB-1284 Gun moor, so it now a 3for with SOTA! and a 4for if like me, you activae WAB trigs aswell! 
Alan
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Wow, thanks Alan, I had no idea about this. Is it recent because I’m sure it wasn’t on the POTA map a couple of weeks ago.
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I’m very fortunate that many summit I do are in a POTA park too. Duel activations are my favorite!
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FB on campout and activation. Looks like perfect weather, lots of contacts, and beautiful location. SOTA and POTA combinations will get you a lot of QSOs. Try adding WWFF, the original POTA and you’ll get more DX and have an even bigger pileup. Most of the POTA parks are WWFF parks.
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I’ll have to try that. Thanks!
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We’ve got a lot of those in VA too. It’s not uncommon to have a SOTA summit and dual POTAs all at once. Having the AT nearby helps with that. 
Chris
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I did Gun as a SOTA over the weekend and noticed it’s a nature reserve, so contacted the POTA England rep and she added the park for me!
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Awesome 
Many Summits here are near the PCT. I hope to thru-hike it someday, for now we just do sections. I’ve heard the AT is a great trail, too. I haven’t been on that one yet.
Cheers, W6IWN Bobby
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One of my frustrations with POTA. It should be a definative list of all valid parks. But in many places, because the POTA list is so incomplete, its effectively an ad-hoc list of people’s favoutite places that they have asked to be added.
This was certainly the case in ZL until the most recent AM @ZL1BQD took over, agreed on some national criteria for what would / would not be included, added them all and retired the existing invalid parks (e.g. community playgrounds). A massive task but one that’s seen POTA participation take off here.
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