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I kinda like https://www.beachesontheair.com/ Nothing like a vertical antenna and salt water.

POTA is great. Gets people who want to be outside, outside. Gets people who want to play radio at home .. on the radio.

It feels like most ham related activities are needlessly complicated and obscure to keep people away. 15 minutes and I still don't know how I can do POTA.

Wow...I thought you must be exaggerating, went to the site...and could not tell from it just what the heck POTA is. I could guess because I had heard previously of SOTA (Summits on the Air) and POTA is like SOTA but in parks instead of on summits.

This site [1] gives a better idea of the basics.

Here's an article on SOTA [2].

[1] http://www.hamparks.org/

[2] http://www.arrl.org/radio-operating-from-summits

Good point, maybe I will :-)