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Portable programmes
Operating outdoors with a reference as the goal. All programmes work in a similar way: the activator announces themselves, chasers work them, both get points.
- POTA
- Parks on the Air, national parks and protected areas
- SOTA
- Summits on the Air, summits with altitude points
- WWFF
- World Wide Flora and Fauna, protected areas worldwide
- GMA
- German Mountain Award, mountains and more in German-speaking countries
- COTA, LOTA
- castles and lighthouses
- Aktivierung
- operating from a reference, usually with a minimum number of contacts
- Spot
- online notice that a station is active on a frequency right now
- Chaser, Hunter
- whoever works the activators
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