EM50/60 POTA Award Plaques

Everyone who appears on the EM50/60 POTA leaderboards has a printable sheet here — 8.5×11 at 300 dpi, free to download, print or frame. There is nothing to join and no form to fill in.

An Award of Excellence goes to first place on a month that has finished. A Board Standing shows where an operator sat when the sheets were last cut, best placements first, across as many windows as fit the sheet. The rules, and when everything updates, are written down rather than implied.

These exist because another operator built one by hand first and shared it — a good-looking piece of work, and a better idea than anything on this site’s own list. Thanks for it. This just automates it so everyone on the boards gets one.

Two different things live on this page. An Award of Excellence is first place on a month that has finished, so its figures are settled. A Board Standing shows where an operator sat when these sheets were cut, which all 40 listed operators have. Board Standings come from the same figures as the EM50/60 leaderboards; Awards come from the same source data for a month the leaderboards no longer display. The rules and the update times are written down.

These are a snapshot, cut 2026-08-13 and stamped 2026-08 — not a live board. The leaderboards update overnight; these do not move until they are cut again.

Every number on a plaque carries the window it was measured over — this month, the year to date, or all time — because the same figure means different things across those windows and a total presented without one is not a result, it is a claim. Ranks on the activation, QSO and different-park boards also carry the size of the field they were won against: #1 of 22, not a bare #1. Park-to-park and parks-hunted ranks appear without one, because POTA publishes no operator count for them and an invented denominator would be worse than none.

Park-to-park and parks-hunted counts are floors, not totals: POTA publishes only a rolling window of each operator's recent hunter contacts, so tracking here is what has been captured since 2026-08-07 and cannot see everything before it.

Operators are attributed exactly as POTA's public record shows them, so a club or event callsign appears as itself rather than as whoever was at the key. Rankings are automatic — nobody is added or moved up by hand. The one manual step is taking someone off at their own request.

Would you rather not be here? These are built from POTA's public record and nobody opted in. Email AE4JC@ae4jc.com and your callsign comes off this page and the leaderboards — no reason needed.

em5060.com is an independent site. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a publication of Parks on the Air, and these are not POTA awards — they are this site's own summary of POTA's public record, built for non-commercial use. If POTA would rather this worked differently, say so and it will.

Awards of Excellence — July 2026

First place on a completed month. There are exactly as many of these as there were boards to win, and they are only issued once a month has closed and its figures can no longer move — how this works.

Board standings — August 2026 so far

Everyone listed on the boards, in alphabetical order — the position of a tile means nothing. Each caption shows an operator's three best placements; the full sheet has the rest.