POTA vs SOTA vs Tiles — The OTA Wars

POTA isn't the only game in town.Parks on the Air has exploded across amateur radio—but POTA is just one way hams are turning portable operating into a challenge.This week on Brew & Activate, Eric N1JUR and Shannon KC1OHT are entering THE OTA WARS.We're putting four different portable-radio programs on the board:POTA — Parks on the AirSOTA — Summits on the AirTILES — Tiles on the AirPARC — Protected Area Radio CommunityBut this isn't about trashing one program or declaring that everybody should abandon POTA for the newest shiny thing.We're asking a much more interesting question:WHICH GAME FITS THE WAY YOU LIKE TO OPERATE?We'll look at what each program is trying to accomplish, what it rewards, how you participate, how activations differ, spotting and logging, scoring, awards, physical challenges, exploration and the communities developing around them.Then we're putting them through the Brew & Activate test.Which program fits the casual portable operator?Which one rewards adventure?Which one makes exploration part of the game?Which one would you recommend to a brand-new portable operator?And can you STACK multiple programs during the same activation?Because maybe the OTA Wars aren't actually a war.Maybe we've just been playing one game when there's an entire arcade sitting next door.Different games.Same radio.Join Eric N1JUR and Shannon KC1OHT LIVE on Brew & Activate.FRIDAY10:00 AM EASTERNCome prepared to answer:WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO GET OUT OF PORTABLE RADIO?And which OTA are YOU choosing?*************************************************************📡 KEEP UP WITH N1JURPractical ham radio videos, operating guides, equipment reviews, community projects, and Field Notes from around the hobby.🌐 Explore N1JURhttps://n1jur.com📬 Join the free Field Notes Newsletterhttps://n1jur.com/newsletter━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🤝 GET MORE INVOLVED⭐ Become a YouTube Channel Memberhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBBAnDZb9q0hDFNEIUuOVDQ/join🛠️ Follow exclusive builds, projects, and mentoring on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/cw/n1jur━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎒 GEAR, PARTNERS & DISCOUNTSSee the radios, antennas, batteries, accessories, and production equipment I use:https://n1jur.com/gearFind available partner discounts and special offers:https://n1jur.com/discounts━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━👕 WEAR SOMETHING WEIRDN1JUR, POTA, and ham radio shirts, mugs, stickers, and more:https://makerfweird.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 LINKS FROM THIS VIDEOCross Island Maine K1C Activation https://www.qrz.com/db/K1C