EM50/60 Radio

Active Now

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On the air now is POTA only. It lists people activating one of the parks in EM50 and EM60, and nothing else — a home station calling CQ two miles away, a contest operation, or somebody portable outside a park will never appear here, however loud they are. Spots come from three places: the activator posting their own, a hunter posting one after working them, or an automated skimmer, which decodes CW and cannot hear phone at all. In one snapshot of 103 spots nationwide on 8 August 2026, 27 were the activator’s own and 76 were somebody else’s — one reading on one afternoon, not a rule. Either way, a spot says somebody was on that frequency at that moment.

About

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

EM50 and EM60 are Maidenhead grid squares. Together they cover the Gulf Coast from eastern Louisiana through south Mississippi and Alabama into the Florida panhandle. This site collects radio and technology information for that area.

What we’re about

Honor those who came before. Accurately document the history. Encourage and inspire people to get active with their radios — POTA, RaDAR (Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio), and whatever else gets them on the air.

Every POTA Park in EM50 and EM60, by State

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every POTA park in grid squares EM50 and EM60, grouped by the state you would drive to — and flagged where the park’s published coordinate is close enough to a grid line that it is worth checking your grid before you upload the log to POTA. That last part is what this page is really for. The park list itself is public; which parks sit near a line is not, because working it out means measuring every published coordinate against the grid boundaries.

POTA DX on the Air

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Activators outside the United States who have been spotted on POTA’s public spot feed. Refreshed every 30 minutes.

An activator nobody has spotted does not appear here, so this is a picture of what is being reported, which is not quite the same as everything on the air.

Two-fer Candidates and Rove Routes in EM50 and EM60

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Which park combinations people around here actually repeat in a day — and a short list of pairs close enough to be worth checking as a genuine two-fer. Both come out of POTA’s own activation logs rather than anybody’s opinion. If the same operator logged two references on the same date, that happened, and it is in the public record.

A two-fer is one operating position inside two overlapping park boundaries, so one setup earns both. A rove is driving between parks and activating each in turn. In the log they look identical — same call sign, same date, two references — so this page ranks what people repeat, and shortlists the pairs close enough that a real two-fer is worth checking on the ground.

Ham Radio Clubs in EM50 and EM60

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Click a dot or a callsign to go straight to that club’s own site.

Repeaters in EM50 and EM60

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Every repeater found in EM50/EM60 so far — the ten clubs’ own machines first, then everything else turned up by cross-checking RepeaterBook’s own county listings for the area. Real, on-air machines either way; the split just says who runs each one.

Where the best available source only gives a coverage town rather than a tower site, the dot sits at that town’s centre — an honest stand-in, not a claimed precise tower coordinate. A few sites (Five Flags ARA’s repeaters, some of RepeaterBook’s entries) publish a specific site, so those dots sit there instead.

Net Calendar for EM50 and EM60

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every recurring net found so far, read in full from four clubs’ own published net lists — Five Flags ARA, North Okaloosa ARC, Mobile ARC, and Matthew’s own ae4jc.com roundup of the Baldwin County/Mobile area — cross-checked against each other and against each host club’s own page where one exists. Every net is shown in UTC, with its Central-time equivalent in parentheses. Central observes Daylight Saving Time, so whichever side isn’t the net’s own stated zone depends on the season — your browser fills in today’s, falling back to both possible values if it can’t. Playground ARC’s meeting/gathering times are on its own clubs entry rather than here — this is on-air nets on a stated frequency, not in-person get-togethers.

EM50/60 Ham Radio POTA Leaderboards

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Public Parks on the Air leaderboards for grid squares EM50 and EM60 — no sign-up, no roster, nothing to join. These two grids run along the Gulf Coast of the United States from eastern Louisiana across south Mississippi and Alabama into the Florida panhandle: 22 parks in Florida, 17 in Alabama, 15 in Mississippi and 5 in Louisiana. Those add up to 59, not 57 — two parks sit in two states at once.

EM50/60 POTA Award Plaques

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Award Rules and Update Times

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Everything on the awards page is generated from the same public POTA record the EM50/60 leaderboards are built from. Nothing is hand-picked, there is nothing to join, and no form to fill in.

The two things on that page

Award of Excellence. First place on a board, for a month that has finished. Nothing else earns one.

Board Standing. A record of where an operator sat when the sheets were last cut. Everyone on a published board has one.

Affiliate Disclosure

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Last updated: August 7, 2026.

As of today this site carries no affiliate links and earns nothing. This page exists ahead of that rather than after it, so the disclosure is never playing catch-up with the first link.

If that changes, here is the standard it will be held to:

Every affiliate link is marked inline, where it appears — not only disclosed on a page you would have to go find. The marker travels with the link.
Recommendations are not for sale. No paid reviews, no sponsored placements, no product mention written in exchange for anything.
Gear gets linked because it is genuinely used or genuinely worth knowing about in this area, and would be recommended the same way with no commission attached.
If a link earns a commission, it costs you nothing extra.

This site’s whole premise is that it is built from public record rather than from anyone’s roster or anyone’s sponsorship. An affiliate link that quietly shaped what got listed would undercut that, so it will not happen.

Privacy Policy

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Last updated: August 12, 2026.

A plain-language description of what this site actually does with data, not formal legal counsel.

What this site collects

Nothing directly. There are no comments, no contact forms, no newsletter signup, and no accounts. This site sets no cookies, and it serves no JavaScript at all — not “no tracking scripts”, but no scripts, full stop. You can check that yourself with View Source on any page here.

What's New

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Everything on this site, newest change first. New pages and revised ones both show up here — this list is generated from the site’s own history, so nothing has to be remembered onto it.

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