I have said for the longest time that there is hidden joy in making up your own games using the radio. For instance, a determination to work fifty DX entities using only that small QRP CW transceiver you built ten years ago and a wire antenna won’t net you any wallpaper, but it can be a joyful diversion especially when the hobby is feeling a little… stale. The challenges you can invent for yourself are endless, but it’s fun too when others participate.

Chuck Adams, AA7FO has recently thrown down the gauntlet on just such a new quest. He wants to do a low-power, simple antenna, POTA chase using a fresh-brewed transceiver with the goal of working all states:

“My original interest was to work POTA activators from home with 1W and a simple antenna system… I’ve reset my counter. Gotta finish an SST and ADC before I can get serious. That’s the reason for my reset to July. I am making progress on both and getting ready to let the beasts out of the pen”.

Of course, you can earn wallpaper from the POTA folks for WAS, but I really like it when such efforts come up organically and are embraced by even a small community of like-minded radio adventurers.